Patents Assigned to Cellco Partnership
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Patent number: 9503159Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor, a memory, an embedded element storing information, and a short-range radio controller. The embedded element is readable by an external reader. The short-range radio controller is configured to receive a radio communication. If the short-range radio controller is being powered by a primary battery that powers the processor, the short-range radio controller is configured to route the radio communication to the embedded element if the radio communication is for accessing the embedded element, or route the radio communication to a component of the electronic device different from the embedded element if the radio communication is not for accessing the embedded element. If the short-range radio controller is not being powered by the primary battery, the short-range radio controller is configured to route the radio communication to the embedded element.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Tom Daniel, Yuk Lun Li, Nanjun Qian, Manuel E. Caceres
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Patent number: 9503894Abstract: The method, system and device examples provide for a mobile device biometric authentication that authenticates an application user via a biometric input, and thereby reduce the need to enter complex user credentials into a mobile device to gain access to a mobile application. The examples leverage the biometric recognition operations managed by the operating system of the mobile device to allow a mobile application to authenticate the user as a valid user of the mobile application. In an example, a successfully unlocking of a mobile device via a biometric input from a user is used by the mobile application to perform an authentication operation with assistance from an authentication server to authenticate the user of the mobile device as a valid user of the mobile application. As a result, the mobile application grants access to the mobile application based on the user's biometric input.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Sankar Shanmugam, Moorthy Sengottaiyan, Sivagnanalingam Sivaganesh
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Publication number: 20160334958Abstract: Systems and methods for managing user interface elements using gestures are disclosed. In some implementations, a block representing a plurality of user interface elements is displayed on a touch screen of a device. A first gesture is initiated at a position corresponding to the block representing the plurality of the user interface elements is received via the touch screen. A first path corresponding to the first gesture is stored in a memory. At least a portion of the plurality of user interface elements are displayed on the touch screen in positions along the first path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Applicant: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon WirelessInventors: Michelle Felt, Sankar Shanmugam, John Van-Ryzin, Siva Sivaganesh
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Patent number: 9491219Abstract: Techniques described herein may use perceptual quality measurement techniques to test and/or evaluate communication sessions between mobile devices. A method may include receiving, by a mobile device and as part of an audio or video call with a second mobile device, a streamed version of a reference audio or video file; and reading a version of the reference audio or video file that was previously stored locally to the mobile device. The method may further include calculating, based on a comparison of the streamed version of the reference audio or video file to the version of the reference audio video file that was stored locally, a perceptual quality score for the streamed version of the reference audio or video file.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Gopinath Venkatasubramaniam, Mauricio Pati Caldeira de Andrada, Christopher M. Schmidt, Yuk Lun Li
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Patent number: 9491596Abstract: A device establishes a quality of service (QoS) framework with a network connected to the device. The device includes a push-to-talk (PTT) application, and the QoS framework assigns priorities to different types of traffic associated with the device. The device utilizes the PTT application to establish a PTT session with another device via the network, and prioritizes, based on the QoS framework, PTT traffic, provided in the PTT session, over best effort traffic during the PTT session with the other device.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Howard G. Hammer, Shweta Sinha, Muhammad Salman Nomani, Mauricio Pati Caldeira de Andrada
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Patent number: 9485633Abstract: Systems and methods for message timestamp re-alignment for message thread consistency across multiple devices are disclosed. In some implementations, an outbound message originating at a mobile phone is received at an integrated messaging server. The outbound message is associated with a messaging protocol. A timestamp representing a send time for the outbound message associated with the messaging protocol at the mobile phone is determined, at the integrated messaging server, by receiving an indication of the send time from the mobile phone. The outbound message and the timestamp are stored at the integrated messaging server. The outbound message and the timestamp representing the send time for the outbound message are provided from the integrated messaging server to a client computing device different from the mobile phone.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Ian Lynn, Amir Mayblum, Zhijian Lin, Jerry Kupsh
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Patent number: 9485634Abstract: Systems and methods for session managed messaging are disclosed. Some implementations include receiving, from an enterprise application and at a session manager, a messaging service message including a session ID and a phone number of a mobile device configured to receive the messaging service message, determining, at the session manager and based on the session ID, whether the messaging service message is part of a new conversation or an existing conversation between the enterprise application and the mobile device, and based on a result of the determining step, assigning a particular code to the messaging service message at the session manager, where the particular code allows the mobile device to group messaging service messages associated with a particular conversation together, and forwarding, from the session manager and to a SMS gateway, the messaging service message along with the assigned particular code.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Sharathbabu Krishnarao, MohanRamSai Gurram, Vijayalakshmi Janakiraman
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Patent number: 9479985Abstract: A system may be configured to identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network (“RAN”), via a first technology; and to identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology. The system may further be configured to instruct the user device to concurrently connect to the second RAN and the first RAN, send or receive a first type of traffic via the first RAN, and send or receive a second type of traffic via the second RAN.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Priscilla Lau, Patricia R. Chang, Arda Aksu, Jay J. Lee, Lalit R. Kotecha, Thomas H. Tan, Maria G. Lam, Steven R. Rados, John F. Macias, Derek Hongwei Bao
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Patent number: 9479268Abstract: A first device may receive a parameter to identify interference associated with a frequency; identify the frequency based on the parameter; filter signals associated with the frequency to prevent a second device from receiving the signals associated with the frequency; and provide information identifying the frequency to the second device to cause the second device to prevent a data flow from being assigned to the frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Martin G. Guldberg, Jim Hunter, Timothy Lee Roco Carter
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Patent number: 9479947Abstract: A device is configured to obtain base station information for base stations indicating whether data communicated via a respective base station should receive optimization processing. The device may obtain a base station identifier from a base station. The device may determine whether the data communicated via the base station should receive the optimization processing based on the base station information and the base station identifier. The device may receive non-optimized data to be sent to a client device via the base station. The device may selectively cause the optimization processing to be performed on the non-optimized data based on whether the data communicated via the base station should receive the optimization processing. The device may provide optimized data generated by the optimization processing or the non-optimized data to the client device via the base station based on selectively causing the optimization processing to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang, Lalit R. Kotecha, Donna L. Polehn, Mingxing S. Li
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Patent number: 9473187Abstract: A system may include a base station and a remote radio head (“RRH”). The base station may receive digital data streams destined for a user device, and generate a first set of modulated signals. The modulated signals may each be based on a different one of the digital data streams. The generated first set of modulated signals may be modulated within a first carrier frequency band. The base station may output the first set of modulated signals to the RRH. The RRH may generate a second set of modulated signals based on the first set of modulated signals. The second set of modulated signals being modulated within a second carrier frequency band, and may output the second set of modulated signals to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventor: Donna L. Polehn
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Patent number: 9465820Abstract: An approach is described for providing unified technological stack management (e.g., via a global storage instance) where metadata is delocalized from storage nodes. The approach includes creating a global storage instance, wherein the global storage instance contains metadata for a storage layer including a plurality of storage nodes, and wherein the global storage instance is delocalized from the plurality of storage nodes. The approach also includes receiving a database operation request from an operating system layer. The approach further includes mediating the database operation request between the operating system layer and the storage layer using the global storage instance.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Shivinder Singh, Madhu Bhimaraju, Krishna Reddy
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Patent number: 9467507Abstract: A method, performed by a server device, may include receiving a request to activate an application session, the request being received from a user equipment on behalf of a particular application installed on the user equipment. The method may further include determining one or more application requirements associated with the particular application; determining conditions associated with one or more application servers; selecting a particular one of the one or more application servers based on the determined one or more application requirements and based on the determined conditions; and setting up the application session between the user equipment and between the selected particular one of the one or more application servers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Jay J. Lee, Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang, David Chiang, Deepak Kakadia, Vikram K. Rawat
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Patent number: 9467821Abstract: An application data synchronization system may include a data storage system and a data synchronization module. The data storage system may store the identity of entities and, for each entity, the identity of a group of cellular communication devices used by the entity and at least one application that has been delivered to at least two of the cellular communication devices in the group. The data synchronization module may detect that an application has changed data while operating in one of the cellular communication devices. The data synchronization module may consult the data storage system to determine whether the application was also delivered to one or more other cellular communication devices within the same entity group and, if so, cause the changed data to be propagated to the one or more other cellular communication devices within the same entity group.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Saeed Saatchi, Jesus Ramos, Ning Zhang
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Patent number: 9466028Abstract: A system may be configured to receive performance information regarding a set of network devices; compare the performance information to a set of rule objects; and detect an occurrence of a particular network event. The detecting may include determining that the performance information, associated with a particular network device, of the set of network devices, meets the set of conditions associated with a particular rule object with which the particular network event is associated. The system may further present information regarding the particular rule object, such as information regarding the particular network event, and information regarding a recommendation regarding the particular network event.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventor: Donna L. Polehn
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Patent number: 9456290Abstract: Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services may be provided to a roaming mobile device, even when the home network of the mobile device does not provide VoLTE service. In one implementation, one or more devices in a network may determine based on a mobile device attaching to a network as a roaming device for the network, a home network of the mobile device. The devices may further determine whether the home network, associated with the mobile device, provides VoLTE services; transmit, based on the determination that the home network does not provide VoLTE services, a VoLTE client application to the mobile device, the VoLTE client application providing functionality, for the mobile device, relating to usage of VoLTE services in the network. The devices may further communicate with the mobile device and the VoLTE client application, to provide one or more VoLTE services to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Arda Aksu, Priscilla Lau, Steven R. Rados, Lalit R. Kotecha, Patricia R. Chang, Sagiv Draznin, David Chiang, John F. Macias, Sanyogita Shamsunder
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Patent number: 9451444Abstract: Systems and methods are described for enabling a mobile device to connect with a data network, based on the type of account associated with the mobile device. The system transmits a first signal to the data network and receives one or more network codes in response. The network codes may correspond to a type of SIM card associated with the mobile device. The system may display one or more setup screens on the mobile device based on the received network codes. The setup screens may guide the user of the mobile device to access the data network using an existing account, or setup a new account to access the data network.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Maxine C. Dawson-Haney, Zhengfang Chen, Andrew E. Youtz
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Patent number: 9451481Abstract: A device is configured to receive a request to provide data traffic associated with a user device. The device is configured to determine network information associated with a set of networks. The device may be associated with a small cell long term evolution (“LTE”) network, which may connect to the set of networks. The set of networks may include a macro cell LTE network and a fiber optic network. The network information may include information that identifies a condition of the set of networks. The device is configured to identify a particular network, of the set of networks, based on the network information, and provide the data traffic, via the small cell LTE network and the particular network, based on identifying the particular network.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Te-Sheng Lin, John Gu
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Patent number: 9450773Abstract: Content may be transmitted to mobile devices, in a network, using a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) multicast technique over wireless interfaces in the network. In one implementation, network elements in the network may receive feedback about the MBMS multicast transmission, where the feedback relates to a quality of the content, as received by the one or more mobile devices, or to the quality of the radio channel. The devices may determine whether to modify transmission parameters relating to the MBMS multicast transmission and may determine whether to retransmit lost data, corresponding to the content, to the mobile devices. The lost data may be retransmitted as a unicast transmission or a multicast transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco PartnershipInventors: Lai King (Anna) Tee, Sergio Aguirre, Christopher M. Schmidt
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Patent number: 9451473Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing and forecasting network traffic are disclosed. In some implementations, multiple points are received. Each point represents a time value and a network traffic value. For each point in the multiple points, the network traffic value is decomposable into a trend component, a seasonality component, a burst component, and a random error component. A trend equation is generated for calculating the trend component based on the time value. A seasonality equation is generated for calculating the seasonality component based on the time value. A burst equation is generated for calculating the burst component based on the time value. A random error equation is generated for calculating the random error component. A network traffic equation is generated for calculating the network traffic value based on the time value by combining the trend equation, the seasonality equation, the burst equation, and the random error equation.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Cellco PartnershipInventors: Ye Ouyang, Carol Becht, Gopinath Venkatasubramaniam