Patents Assigned to AT&T Labs, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20100042235
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for adaptive content rendition, the method comprising receiving media content for playback to a user, adapting the media content for playback on a first device in the user's first location, receiving a notification when the user changes to a second location, adapting the media content for playback on a second device in the second location, and transitioning media content playback from the first device to second device. One aspect conserves energy by optionally turning off the first device after transitioning to the second device. Another aspect includes playback devices that are “dumb devices” which receive media content already prepared for playback, “smart devices” which receive media content in a less than ready form and prepare the media content for playback, or hybrid smart and dumb devices. A single device may be substituted by a plurality of devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea BASSO, David C. GIBBON, Zhu LIU, Bernard S. RENGER
  • Publication number: 20100042387
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for contextual adaptive advertising. The method for contextual adaptive advertising comprises tracking user behavior across multiple modalities or devices, storing one or more representations of user behavior in a log as descriptors, normalizing the descriptors, merging the normalized descriptors into a unified click or interactive stream, and generating a behavioral model by analyzing the click or interactive stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: AT & T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Gibbon, Andrea Basso, Oliver Spatscheck
  • Publication number: 20100042642
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for transmedia video bookmarks, the method comprising receiving a first place marker and a second place marker for a segment of video media, extracting metadata from the video media between the first and second place markers, normalizing the extracted metadata, storing the normalized metadata, first place marker, and second place marker as a video bookmark, and retrieving the media represented by the video bookmark upon request from a user. One aspect further aggregates video bookmarks from multiple sources and refines the first place marker and second place marker based on the aggregated video bookmarks. Metadata can be extracted by analyzing text or audio annotations. Another aspect of normalizing the extracted metadata includes generating a video thumbnail representing the video media between the first place marker and the second place marker. Multiple video bookmarks may be searchable by metadata or by the video thumbnail visually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Behzad Shahraray, Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger
  • Publication number: 20100043020
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for recommending media content, the method comprising generating a playlist representing one or more media segments, receiving comments describing the one or more media segments, transmitting the playlist and received comments to one or more viewers, and charging a fee for displaying the media segment represented by the playlist. In one aspect, the fee charged is paid in full or in part by one or more of a recommending party, a third party, one or more viewer, and an advertiser in exchange for inserting advertising content in one or more of the playlist and the comments. Referral credit can be granted recursively when the viewer recommends the playlist to a second viewer and a second fee is charged. In one aspect, received comments are generated based on one or more of media segment metadata, text or audio comments from a recommending party, and previously generated comments describing the media segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Basso, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 7656859
    Abstract: A computer readable medium stores a program in an ingress capable network device of a network for routing signals through the network. The computer readable includes a receiving code segment for receiving an original signal, which has an embedded destination service address. The computer readable medium also includes a querying code segment for querying a database server to obtain an internal routing address corresponding to the embedded destination service address, and a routing code segment for routing at least a portion of the original signal through the network to an egress capable network device according to the internal routing address. The routed portion of the original signal includes at least the embedded destination service address, which enables the egress capable network device to restore the embedded destination service address and to forward the routed portion of the original signal from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Albert Chungbor Wan
  • Patent number: 7653194
    Abstract: A method for location-based communicating includes identifying a service provider based on information received from a requesting party at a networked communications apparatus. The method also includes determining whether a plurality of predefined service areas have been defined for the identified service provider. When the plurality of the at least one predefined service areas have been defined for the service provider, determinations are made as whether the requesting party is in one of the predefined service areas. When the requesting party is in a predefined service areas, information specified for a service location for the predefined service area is forwarded to the requesting party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Sabinson, Gregory Steven Fosburgh, Mark Tamasi, Brenda S. Thompson
  • Patent number: 7609699
    Abstract: A method for using broadband network resources includes providing simultaneous access to an asynchronous transfer mode switched virtual circuit for a plurality of sessions. The access for each session is provided based on an internet protocol session request being received at a service gateway for the sessions. The method also includes tearing down the asynchronous transfer mode switched virtual circuit when all of the sessions are terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Joseph Allen, Weijing Chen, Anna Salguero
  • Patent number: 7593396
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for reviewing and updating a subscriber's telecommunications services using a graphical user interface via multiple data networks. A data message is received at an intelligent peripheral from the graphical user interface via at least one of the data networks. The data message indicates a subscriber's desired update to a selected service. The data message is converted into a protocol compatible with a service control point. The converted data message is identical to a data message that the intelligent peripheral would create if the subscriber had entered the desired update via an interactive voice response system. The converted data message is transmitted to the service control point, which updates the service in accordance with the subscriber's update. Thus, the service is updated substantially contemporaneously with the request. Moreover, the subscriber retains the ability to update and review service data via the interactive voice response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar Bhandari, Xiaolian Bi, Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Christine Mary Hartman, Alexander Lisheng Huang, Jeffrey Paul Johnson, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller, Jeffrey L. Scruggs
  • Patent number: 7586844
    Abstract: Virtual circuits are dynamically established in a telecommunications network. A cache duration is adaptively determined based on at least one characteristic of the telecommunications network. A virtual circuit is established for a connection between a source and a destination. The virtual circuit is cached when the connection between the source and the destination terminates. The cached virtual circuit is reused when a new connection request occurs during the cache duration. The cached virtual circuit is released after the cache duration when no new connection request occurs during the cache duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Yetik Serbest, Haifeng Bi, Samuel Sigarto
  • Patent number: 7573997
    Abstract: A communication network element determines a service provider's routing preference for routing communications and routes these communications from an originating connection address to a destination connection address over a network. The communication network element includes a receiver configured to receive a signal, which comprises the originating connection address and the destination connection address. The communication network element also includes a processor that determines the service provider associated with at least one of the originating connection address and the destination connection address of the received signal. The processor also determines the routing preference associated with the service provider using routing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura Culli, Bruce A. Nance, John E. Simino, Harold C. Fleischer, III, Michael Hanrahan, M. Lourdes Coronado
  • Publication number: 20090190467
    Abstract: A system, method and computer readable media for detecting and managing fault within a network using the network's label distribution protocol transactions. Initially, the system will monitor and analyze all transactions within the network to determine if the network has degraded at or between any nodes in the system. The system can then recognize if there is any failure and determine if the network has degraded past a threshold value that is needed for proper operation. If the network has a failure that is beyond this threshold, it will notify a fault management system and subsequently a ticketing system to notify the user that a failure within the system has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Moshiur RAHMAN
  • Patent number: 7568149
    Abstract: A method and system for allowing users to control the operation of hyperlinks includes a graphical user interface that displays Internet and intranet hyperlinks from web sites. The graphical user interface includes a selectable button that accepts user settings. The user settings allow the users to determine the operation of the hyperlinks so that the hyperlinks either open in a new browser window or in an existing browser window when selected by the user. An interface engine generates the selectable button on the graphical user interface, examines the selectable button for any user settings, and controls the operation of the hyperlinks based upon the user settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory W. Edwards, Benjamin A. Knott
  • Publication number: 20090187410
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for enabling speech processing in a user interface of a device. The method includes receiving an indication of a field and a user interface of a device, the indication also signaling that speech will follow, receiving the speech from the user at the device, the speech being associated with the field, transmitting the speech as a request to public, common network node that receives and processes speech, processing the transmitted speech and returning text associated with the speech to the device and inserting the text into the field. Upon a second indication from the user, the system processes the text in the field as programmed by the user interface. The present disclosure provides a speech mash up application for a user interface of a mobile or desktop device that does not require expensive speech processing technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay WILPON, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Benjamin J. Stern
  • Patent number: 7561577
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for a distributed switching system supporting a plurality of services. A service request is initiated by an initiating customer. The service request is then executed using, for example, a user-to-network interface setup. A terminating setup is then performed to either accept or reject the requested service. Multiple service requests are correlated with respective services to enable at least one appropriate policy and logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: AT & T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Schneider, Philip Cunetto
  • Publication number: 20090177983
    Abstract: Designing user interfaces for users in a user population includes modeling behaviorally distinct groups of the users and customizing the user interfaces based on either or both interactive testing by the users and modeling the behaviorally distinct groups of the users. The user population is categorized into the behaviorally distinct groups of the users based on predetermined characteristics and behaviors for the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly known as SBC TechnologyResources, Inc.)
    Inventors: Robert R. Bushey, Thomas Deelman, Jennifer M. Mauney
  • Publication number: 20090171890
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for operating a high speed data stream management system which runs a query plan including a set of queries on a data feed in the form of a stream of tuples. A predicate prefilter is placed outside the query plan upstream of the set of queries, and includes predicates selected from those used by the queries. Predicates are selected for inclusion in the prefilter based on a cost heuristic, and predicates are combined into composites using a rectangle mapping heuristic. The prefilter evaluates the presence of individual and composite predicates in the tuples and returns a bit vector for each tuple with bits representing the presence or absence of predicates in the tuple. A bit signature is assigned to each query to represent the predicates related to that query, and a query is invoked when the tuple bit vector and the query bit signature are compatible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Johnson, Lukasz Golab, Oliver Spatscheck
  • Publication number: 20090161837
    Abstract: A method and system allow a subscriber to test emergency 911 telephone services routed from the subscriber's location over a network to a response center. An alternative dialing code (*911) is provided for testing, and when a call placed by a subscriber to the alternative dialing code is received in the network, the network identifies the response center to which a 911 call placed from the subscriber's location is routed. An answering device is provided with status information with respect to the identified response center, and calls placed by the subscriber to the alternative dialing code are routed to the answering device, whereby when a subscriber places a call to the alternative dialing code, the answering device will supply the subscriber with status information with respect to the identified response center that receives a 911 call from the subscriber's location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc. (a Delaware corporation)
    Inventors: Thomas J. Killian, Lorinda Cherry, Norman Schryer
  • Publication number: 20090150925
    Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a method of providing an alert related to visual ticker data for display at a display device is disclosed. The method includes receiving media content at a destination device. The media content includes video data, audio data, and visual ticker data. The method also includes generating an alert related to the visual ticker data, providing the media content to a display device and selectively providing data related to the alert to a selected device based on a user preference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Donnie Henderson
  • Publication number: 20090112598
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for troubleshooting based on a probability distribution model. The method for troubleshooting based on a probability distribution model includes establishing a speech-based channel of interaction, establishing at least one non-speech-based channel of interaction, maintaining a probability distribution over time for each of a plurality of component variables describing the state of the product or service and state of the conversation, and troubleshooting a product or service by responding based on the probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Lab, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Williams
  • Publication number: 20090112586
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media associated with using a divergence metric to evaluate user simulations in a spoken dialog system. The method employs user simulations of a spoken dialog system and includes aggregating a first set of one or more scores from a real user dialog, aggregating a second set of one or more scores from a simulated user dialog associated with a user model, determining a similarity of distributions associated with each of the first set and the second set, wherein the similarity is determined using a divergence metric that does not require any assumptions regarding a shape of the distributions. It is preferable to use a Cramér-von Mises divergence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Lab. Inc.
    Inventor: Jason WILLIAMS