Patents Assigned to Scenera Technologies, LLC
  • Patent number: 7991124
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for collecting contemporaneous information relating to a critical event. The method includes receiving a call requesting an emergency response to a critical event and in response to the call, using at least one communication network to transmit a request for supplemental information from reporting devices located in a specified area related to the critical event. The supplemental information is received over the at least one communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7991548
    Abstract: A method for presenting a route includes receiving a starting point and a destination point and computing a route that includes a route segment between the two points. The method further includes determining, based on a user's travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, and identifying, based on the user's travel history, a road that is familiar to the user and that is within a scaled range of the unfamiliar segment. The computed route and the familiar road are then provided for presentation in a format that distinguishes the familiar road from the computed route, and the familiar road is represented relative to the unfamiliar segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mona Singh
  • Patent number: 7979545
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes monitoring, at an electronic subscription client, receipt of one or more subscription messages associated with an electronic subscription. Interaction with the electronic subscription client by a client may be monitored to determine a viewing frequency of the one or more received subscription messages. Further, a prompt with a control configured for unsubscribing the user from receiving a future subscription message associated with the electronic subscription may be presented based on the determined viewing frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Bardsley
  • Patent number: 7979527
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes monitoring, at an electronic subscription client, receipt of one or more subscription messages associated with an electronic subscription. Interaction with the electronic subscription client by a client may be monitored to determine a viewing frequency of the one or more received subscription messages. Further, a prompt with a control configured for unsubscribing the user from receiving a future subscription message associated with the electronic subscription may be presented based on the determined viewing frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Bardsley
  • Patent number: 7962460
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining availability of presentable content via a subscription service are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection of first presentable content associated with a first subscription service. Metadata associated with the selected first presentable content is received. Based on the received metadata, it is determined whether second presentable content corresponding to the first presentable content is available from a second subscription service. Further, it is indicated whether the second presentable content is available for presentation via the second subscription service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Bardsley, Mona Singh
  • Patent number: 7962932
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for presenting a message on a display based on video frame types presented on the display are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a message having one of a plurality of priority levels for presentation on a display. Further, it is determined whether a type of a video frame for presentation on the display has a predetermined relationship to the priority level of the message. The received message is presented on the display based on the video frame type determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mona Singh
  • Patent number: 7957635
    Abstract: A method and system are described for providing background blurring when capturing an image using an image capture device. According to one aspect, input is received for initiating an image capture process for capturing an image of a subject at an image capture device. A depth of field for capturing the image of the subject in a half of the depth of field furthest from the image capture device is automatically determined. The image is captured using the automatically adjusted depth of field to provide background blurring in the captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Sundstrom
  • Patent number: 7949554
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for calendar-based coverage monitoring are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a coverage rule defining multiple covering entities for performing an activity for a covered entity and at least one period of time during which the multiple covering entities is to perform the activity. Individual calendars for the multiple covering entities are monitored and a change in one of the calendars is detected. It is then determined whether the change causes the coverage rule to be violated, and in response to determining that the change causes the coverage rule to be violated, a notification indicating violation of the coverage rule is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert J. Sundstrom
  • Patent number: 7890752
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating an originator of a network packet with the network packet using biometric information are disclosed. According to one method, biometric identification information is identified for a network user. The identified biometric identification information is associated with a header or a trailer of a network packet originated by the network user. The network packet may be sent over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Bardsley, Richard Mark Horner
  • Patent number: 7890768
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying sensitive data from a user-entered input sequence based on user-defined criteria. According to one method, user-defined criteria for identifying sensitive data within user-entered input sequences that include sensitive data and padding data are received. A request for sensitive data from a requesting agent is presented. A user-entered input sequence that includes sensitive data and padding data is received in response to the request for sensitive data. Sensitive data is identified within the user-entered input sequence using the user-defined criteria. The identified sensitive data is provided to the requesting agent in response to the request for sensitive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mona Singh, Jeffrey Scott Bardsley
  • Patent number: 7881295
    Abstract: A method and system for establishing communication with a device is provided. Aspects of an exemplary embodiment include detecting, at a first device, a physical interaction between the first device and a second device; determining a network address usable for establishing communication between the first and second devices based on information derived from the detected physical interaction; and providing for at least one of sending a message directed to the network address from the first device to the second device and assigning the network address to the first device for receiving a message directed to the network address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jared S. Fry
  • Patent number: 7869790
    Abstract: A system and method of the present invention provide parental and corporate control for a camera-phone. An administration authority web site is provided that enables an owner of a camera-phone to log into a server and establish a set of control policies that specify what actions on the phone are authorized for what user. The control policies that affect behavior of the camera-phone are downloaded to the camera-phone, and the camera-phone is then operated such that a user of the camera-phone is only able to perform actions authorized by the control policies. In a further embodiment, a control policy is provided that requires the camera-phone to upload captured images to the server for review by the camera-phone owner. In addition, the images may be quarantined until the camera-phone owner authorizes their release to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Munindar P. Singh, Mona Singh
  • Patent number: 7831707
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing electronic subscriptions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes monitoring, at an electronic subscription client, receipt of one or more subscription messages associated with an electronic subscription. Interaction with the electronic subscription client by a client may be monitored to determine a viewing frequency of the one or more received subscription messages. Further, a prompt with a control configured for unsubscribing the user from receiving a future subscription message associated with the electronic subscription may be presented based on the determined viewing frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Bardsley
  • Patent number: 7832000
    Abstract: A home relationship is established between a device and a network by storing an ownership record in the device that identifies the network, and storing in the network a device identifier that identifies the device. Thereafter, communication is established between the device and the network. The ownership record is then transmitted from the network to the device, and automatic access to the device is granted to the network once the device verifies the transmitted ownership record against the ownership record stored in the device. In addition, the device identifier is transmitted from the device to the network, and automatic access to the network is granted to the device once the network verifies the transmitted device identifier against the device identifier stored in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Eric C. Anderson
  • Patent number: 7797337
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource are disclosed. According to one method, a metadata association rule is defined for a metadata associator. The metadata association rule specifies a data value to be associated with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource. A user interface is provided for associating at least one resource with a metadata associator. In response to a resource being associated with the metadata associator via a user interface, the data value is associated with the resource as metadata based on the metadata association rule. The specified data value may be defined prior to the resource being associated with the metadata and independently of both the resource and a file system with which the resource is associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jared S. Fry
  • Patent number: 7774851
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information are disclosed. According to one method, a viewing position of a person other than a user with respect to information on a user interface is identified. An information viewability threshold is determined based on the information on the user interface. Further, an action associated with the user interface is performed based on the identified viewing position and the determined information viewability threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mona Singh, Jared S. Fry
  • Patent number: 7747762
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for transmitting data utilizing a plurality of communication applications simultaneously in a communication device supporting the plurality of communication applications, and a communication device for implementing the method. The method according to the present invention includes establishing a first communication session between a user of the communication device and a recipient via a first communication application supported by the communication device, invoking a second communication application to transmit data to the recipient via the second communication application during a communication session concurrent with the first communication session, and, in response to invoking the second communication application, automatically retrieving communication information related to the recipient and necessary to establish the concurrent communication session via the second communication application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert P. Morris
  • Patent number: 7719520
    Abstract: A method for processing data entered using an electronic device and an electronic device capable of implementing the method is described. In one embodiment, the electronic device includes at least one multi-value key associated with at least two input data values. Each multi-value key includes a plurality of units and each input data value corresponds to at least one unit. The electronic device also includes an eye-tracking system that determines an area where a user is gazing by monitoring eye movements of the user, and an input value selection module coupled to the plurality of units and to the eye-tracking system. The input value selection module determines probabilistically which input data value was entered based on a value received from at least one unit and on the area where the user is gazing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mona Singh, Theodosios Thomas
  • Patent number: 7712661
    Abstract: A method for registering an electronic device includes receiving from a point-of-sale interface a transaction code and purchaser information associated with a purchase of an electronic device. While the transaction code is associated with the purchase of the electronic device, it does not uniquely identify the electronic device purchased. The method also includes receiving from the electronic device the transaction code and a device identifier that uniquely identifies the electronic device. The purchaser information and the device identifier are associated via the transaction code for registering the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Theodosios Thomas
  • Patent number: 7707239
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for establishing a location for a digital image without the use of a GPS unit. Aspects of the invention include broadcasting over a network a location identifier (ID) identifying a location of the network; detecting the location ID by a digital image capture device coupled to the network; and in response to the image capture device capturing a digital image when in communication with the network, associating the location ID with the digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric C. Anderson, Robert P. Morris