Patents Assigned to FMR LLC
  • Method for Establishing a Person as a User in a System
    Publication number: 20090113518
    Abstract: Dependents of benefit plan participants can be given access to personal information of a plan participant. The dependents, who are not existing users or members of the plan, can be allowed access to some or all of the personal information associated with the plan participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Joseph E. Hafeman, Louis Iannucci, Mark Melfi, Carl Shippee, Rajandra Laxman Kulkarni
  • Broadcasting user-specific information
    Patent number: 7505732
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems, including computer program products, for broadcasting user-specific information through satellite radio or digital radio. Generally, information specific to a user is correlated with an identifier associated with a receiver associated with the user, and the information is broadcast to the receiver, such that use of the information is restricted to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: John C. McDonough, Nina K. Harvey, Boris Olegovich Kalinichenko