Patents Assigned to Tata Communications (America) Inc.
  • Patent number: 11910198
    Abstract: A system and method includes mobile device, a SIM associated with mobile device, an MNO computer, a computer associated with an owner of the mobile device, a first set of keys stored in the SIM for securely communicating with the MNO computer, and a second set of keys for securely communicating with the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device, to exchange application information. The SIM can be configured to determine when updated information related to the second set of keys is required, securely send a request to the MNO computer for updated information related to the second set of keys using the first set of keys, and responsively receive the updated information related to the second set of keys from the MNO computer, the updated information being provisioned by the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Grippo, Luke Kiernan, William Buchanan, Brian Peebles
  • Patent number: 11758385
    Abstract: A system is provided that allows profiles from multiple mobile network operators to be provisioned across multiple eUICCs from different eUICC manufacturers that may each utilize different provisioning methods. This is accomplished through the use of an abstraction layer with application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable SM-DP and SM-SR functionality for eUICCs from multiple eUICC manufacturers and for multiple MNO profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Higgins, Damien John Stephens, Minh Tam Patrick Cao
  • Patent number: 11533626
    Abstract: A system and method includes mobile device, a SIM associated with mobile device, an MNO computer, a computer associated with an owner of the mobile device, a first set of keys stored in the SIM for securely communicating with the MNO computer, and a second set of keys for securely communicating with the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device, to exchange application information. The SIM can be configured to determine when updated information related to the second set of keys is required, securely send a request to the MNO computer for updated information related to the second set of keys using the first set of keys, and responsively receive the updated information related to the second set of keys from the MNO computer, the updated information being provisioned by the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Grippo, Luke Kiernan, William Buchanan, Brian Peebles
  • Patent number: 11395147
    Abstract: A telecommunications service provider's real time analysis system analyzes communications data to detect potentially fraudulent communications data, where the analysis is performed in real time in the routing path of the communications data. The communications data may include calls (e.g., SS7, VoIP, etc. based calls) and messages (e.g., SMS, MMS, etc.). The real time analysis system rejects potentially fraudulent communications data and non-fraudulent communications data in order to be used in real time in the routing path of the communications data. A rejection by the real time analysis system may cause non-fraudulent communications data to still be sent to the intended destination of the communications data. The real time analysis system can be in the routing path of the communications data without further routing non-fraudulent communications data traffic to the next appropriate hop in the routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Carlos Miranda, Manish Arora, Kumar Thirumalaiappan, Brian Dowd
  • Patent number: 11190638
    Abstract: A method that detects unwanted calls based on information shared between a first telecommunications network provided by a first service provider and a second service provider providing a second telecommunications network including receiving, by a data-processing system, a request to provide a telecommunications service to the first telecommunications network, the request being received by the first telecommunications network from a user of the first telecommunications network through a first gateway, and wherein the request comprises a calling party identification that identified a calling party and a called party identification that identified a called party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Benlolo, Carlos Miranda, Alan Tai, Kumar Thirumalaiappan
  • Patent number: 11184479
    Abstract: A cost-effective system and method of sending and receiving high quality phone calls over a low-cost network (e.g., a local area network, a WiFi network, etc.) with a wireless device, where such phone calls would typically have been delivered over a cellular network to the wireless device is provided herein. The system enables the wireless device to retain a phone number assigned by its home cellular network to send and receive calls, while still sending and receiving such calls over the low-cost network. The system also enables wireless devices to be authenticated with the home network of the wireless device for purposes other than sending and receiving high-quality phone calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Azad Singh, Kenneth Burgert, Frederic Paquette
  • Patent number: 10993115
    Abstract: A telecommunications service provider's real time analysis system analyzes communications data to detect potentially fraudulent communications data, where the analysis is performed in real time in the routing path of the communications data. The communications data may include calls (e.g., SS7, VoIP, etc. based calls) and messages (e.g., SMS, MMS, etc.). The real time analysis system rejects potentially fraudulent communications data and non-fraudulent communications data in order to be used in real time in the routing path of the communications data. A rejection by the real time analysis system may cause non-fraudulent communications data to still be sent to the intended destination of the communications data. The real time analysis system can be in the routing path of the communications data without further routing non-fraudulent communications data traffic to the next appropriate hop in the routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Carlos Miranda, Manish Arora, Kumar Thirumalaiappan, Brian Dowd
  • Patent number: 10931624
    Abstract: A system that enables end-user devices that operate within different enterprise networks to exchange data with one another. In particular, the disclosed system uses unique IP addresses that are dedicated solely to supporting a predefined communication service between enterprise computer networks, in order to identify and route each data packet according to the communications service. As part of the communications service, the data packets are transmitted, for example, from a first local service provider network hosting a first enterprise network, through a participating backbone service provider network on the public Internet and based on deterministic routing, and to a second local service provider network hosting a second enterprise network. In handling the data packets in this way, the disclosed system creates an Internet wide-area-network (WAN): the data packets are transmitted over the Internet and conceivably over a large geographic distance between enterprise networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Jigar Babaria, Srinivasa Nadar
  • Patent number: 10873860
    Abstract: A telecommunications service provider's real time analysis system analyzes communications data to detect potentially fraudulent communications data, where the analysis is performed in real time in the routing path of the communications data. The communications data may include calls (e.g., SS7, VoIP, etc. based calls) and messages (e.g., SMS, MMS, etc.). The real time analysis system rejects potentially fraudulent communications data and non-fraudulent communications data in order to be used in real time in the routing path of the communications data. A rejection by the real time analysis system may cause non-fraudulent communications data to still be sent to the intended destination of the communications data. The real time analysis system can be in the routing path of the communications data without further routing non-fraudulent communications data traffic to the next appropriate hop in the routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Carlos Miranda, Manish Arora, Kumar Thirumalaiappan, Brian Dowd
  • Patent number: 10805788
    Abstract: A system and method that enables the setting up of an incoming call from an originating endpoint of a calling party to a mobile station of a called party who is registered as a roamer in a visited cellular network. In response to receiving a dialed number, or other call information, the system determines whether to set up the call to the mobile station of the called party through a pre determined, over-the-top (OTT) call service that bypasses the visited network. The OTT call service is offerable as a feature to the called party by the party's home mobile network operator (MNO). Call handling for the OTT call service is provided through i) an OTT feature server that is coordinating the incoming call, an application server that is affiliated with the OTT feature server, and iii) a OTT software application that is executing on the called party's mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Burgert, Alan Tai
  • Patent number: 10679667
    Abstract: Virtual video editing is disclosed. In some embodiments, a definition of a virtual clip of a source file is received from a user and saved for future playback of the virtual clip. The virtual clip is not encoded as a separate file. Rather, a portion of the source file specified in the definition of the virtual clip is played back when the virtual clip is played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventor: Barrett Gibson Lyon
  • Patent number: 10548016
    Abstract: A telecommunications service provider's real time analysis system analyzes communications data to detect potentially fraudulent communications data, where the analysis is performed in real time in the routing path of the communications data. The communications data may include calls (e.g., SS7, VoIP, etc. based calls) and messages (e.g., SMS, MMS, etc.). The real time analysis system rejects potentially fraudulent communications data and non-fraudulent communications data in order to be used in real time in the routing path of the communications data. A rejection by the real time analysis system may cause non-fraudulent communications data to still be sent to the intended destination of the communications data. The real time analysis system can be in the routing path of the communications data without further routing non-fraudulent communications data traffic to the next appropriate hop in the routing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventors: Carlos Miranda, Manish Arora, Kumar Thirumalaiappan, Brian Dowd
  • Patent number: 10498778
    Abstract: A conference management system that is capable of managing one or more panels within a teleconference. The conference manager is capable of receiving commands for the purposes of configuring one or more panels and, during a teleconference, activating various panels at various times. In particular, the conference manager is configured to add participants in a teleconference to a panel. The conference manager is also configured to activate a panel, which has the effect of unmuting the audio and video media of the participants previously identified as members of the panel. The conference manager can be further configured to restore the conference to its previous mode, such as a lecture mode in which a lecturer participant is identified as a permanent speaker such that activating and deactivating a panel does not result in the lecturer being muted. Muting treatments other than activating a panel can also be applied to the teleconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen K. Lau, James Leo Murtaugh, III, Joseph W. Nocchi, Lee Joseph Wilson
  • Patent number: 10447740
    Abstract: A system and method for connecting a call from an originating endpoint of a calling party to a terminating endpoint of a called party. The system comprises: a first computer system configured to i) receive, from a second computer system, a plurality of subscriber identifiers for a first over-the-top (OTT) call service, comprising a subscriber identifier of the called party, ii) receive, from a third computer system, a first series of plural updates for a predetermined connection characteristic and corresponding to the subscriber identifier of the called party, and iii) generate a signal for controlling the call, wherein the signal indicates to route the call either a) via the first OTT call service or b) via a different call service, based the first series of plural updates; and a networking device configured to route the call to the terminating endpoint, based on the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Manish Arora, Kumar Thirumalaiappan, Carlos Miranda
  • Patent number: 10375003
    Abstract: A system and method for processing new rate sheets in a telecommunications system are disclosed, wherein the method may include receiving an email message from a supplier at a communication network; determining whether the received email message includes rate information; if the received email message includes rate information, fetching details of a template for the supplier associated with the received message; parsing and storing information in a first rate sheet based on information from the template; and updating routing tables based on the parsed rate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Olsen, Edward Hirschman, Kaustubh Save, Scott Mizerek
  • Patent number: 10341452
    Abstract: A conference management system, network, and method for enabling the management of teleconference resources across multiple telecommunications networks that serve multiple conference domains. A disclosed multi-domain conference manager (MDCM) subscribes to a network management platform and for one or more sets of entities. Each set defines a particular combination of i) communications service provider(s) (CSP) and ii) enterprise, in which the combination defines a particular scope of management. When a conference-related event occurs, such as a particular conference involving video endpoints being set up with a unified communications (UC) network, the MDCM can notify a CSP network that is within a same scope of management as the UC network, to report on related events as they occur. The MDCM can then coordinate the connection of resources associated with the multiple domains via a cascaded link between bridging resources that serve the different domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Joseph Wilson, Joseph W. Nocchi
  • Patent number: 10256985
    Abstract: A system and method for providing top-up of mobile data, by processing one or more transactions between a data sponsor and a data beneficiary who is possibly being served by multiple data providers. The top-up can be based on i) an application program interface (API) call being made into the mobile network operator of a data user or ii) an API call being made into a sponsored data (SD) platform/system (SDS) to allocate a quota to the data user, among other possible product options. In the first option, provisioning of the data quota and consumption against the quota is managed directly by the mobile network operator itself. In the second option, allocation of the quota and consumption against the quota is managed by the SDS and an SD control app. The system can select a particular option because that option best meets one or more business goals or rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communication (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Peebles, Frederic Dingemans, Patrick Menard
  • Patent number: 10237322
    Abstract: A method of providing media content from a server to a client device, by providing a URL which allows access to media content by client the device, receiving a request from the client device for the media content corresponding to the single URL; determining an operating system of the client device requesting the media content; selecting a delivery protocol to stream to the client device based on the determined operating system; and providing said client device a streaming media file based on the selected delivery protocol, wherein the determination of the operating system of the client device includes parsing a user-agent string of the client device making the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventor: Vijayaraghavan Jagannathan
  • Patent number: 10212070
    Abstract: A technique for discovering and identifying locations at which to deploy new Layer-2 nodes within a telecommunications network. The disclosed technique is intended to identify Layer-2 nodes at locations where they can improve service availability when deployed, especially in geographic regions that suffer frequent or simultaneous cable breaks, or both. The locations of the new Layer-2 nodes depend on the underlying Layer-0 network topology, as well as on the existing Layer-2 topology. Thus, the disclosed technique features a cross-layer approach that takes these factors into account and evaluates the locations in a way that can considerably increase the availability of one or more services offered in the telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmad Najib Khalil, Mohammad Nurujjaman, Mohammad Faisal Uddin
  • Patent number: 10200490
    Abstract: Content-based redirection with respect to communication protocols whose standard configurations do not support such functionality is disclosed. In some embodiments, prior to requesting a content item, a client queries a server for the availability of the content item. In the event that the content item is available at the server, the server responds to the query indicating that the content item is available, and the client obtains the content item or a desired portion of the content item from the server. In the event that the content item is not available at the server, the server responds to the query indicating an alternative location at which the content item may be available, and the client redirects to the alternative location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TATA COMMUNICATIONS (AMERICA) INC.
    Inventor: Donald Peregrine Clarke