Patents Assigned to Twilio, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11755530
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multitenant computing platform. Original data is generated through operation of a computing platform system on behalf of an account of the computing platform system, and the original data is moderated according to a data retention policy set for the account. The moderated data is stored at the computing platform system. The computing platform system moderates the generated data by securing sensitive information of the generated data from access by the computing platform system, and providing operational information from the generated data. The operational information is accessible by the computing platform system during performance of system operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Ballai, Timothy S. Milliron
  • Patent number: 11750470
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for ensuring that one or more compliance information bundles associated with one or more end-point identifiers maintain compliance with one or more regulations. It is detected that a rules engine has been updated with a new regulation. Based on an identification that one or more compliance information bundles associated with the one or more end-point identifiers will not be compliant with the new regulation after an expiration of a grace period associated with the new regulation, a status associated with each one or more compliance information bundles is changed to a provisionally-approved status. The changing of the status associated with each of the one or more compliance information bundles to the provisionally-approved status causes each of the one or more compliance information bundles to be treated, temporarily like the status of each the one or more compliance information bundles is an approved status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Loomis, Camilo Alvarez, Samuel Salazar, John Jairo Martinez, Luz Alba Gallo Herrán, David Villamizar, Daniela Beltrán
  • Patent number: 11740917
    Abstract: A system and method for customizing communication processing within a communication platform that includes configuring a service handler, which comprises of at least setting execution code of the service handler; setting an association between the service handler and a communication event of the communication platform; detecting the occurrence of the communication event of a communication facilitated through the communication platform; invoking the service handler in response to the event, which comprises: executing the execution code in a serverless execution environment and generating a service handler response; and augmenting the communication in accordance with the service handler response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Carter Rabasa, Martin Amps
  • Patent number: 11722602
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the method of caching media used in a telephony application includes: receiving a media request; sending the media request to a media layer using HTTP; the a media layer performing the steps of checking in a cache for the media resource; processing the media request within a media processing server; and storing the processed media in the cache as a telephony compatible resource specified by a persistent address. The system of the preferred embodiment includes a call router and a media layer composed of a cache and media processing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11720919
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for the determination of optimal communication scheduling. One method includes an operation for training a machine-learning program to generate a frequency model that determines a frequency for sending communications to users. The training utilizes training data defined by features related to user information and responses of users to previous communications to the users. The method further includes determining, by the frequency model and based on information about a first user, a first frequency for the first user. The first frequency identifies the number of communications to transmit to the first user per period of time. Further, the method includes operations for receiving a communication request to send one or more communications to the first user and determining send times for the one or more communications to the first user based on the first frequency. The communications are sent at the determined send times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Claire Electra Longo, Brendon Kyle Villalobos, Liyuan Zhang, Jorge Chang, Elizabeth Yee, Abhishek Bambha
  • Patent number: 11714911
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for secure data encryption in a multi-tenant service platform. One method includes an operation for detecting a write request to write index data to storage. The write request is from a first user from a group of users, and the storage is configured to store index data for the group of users. Further, the method includes operations for authenticating that the first user is approved for access to the storage, and for identifying a first encryption key for the first user, where each user from the group of users has a separate encryption key. Further yet, the method includes encrypting the index data with the first encryption key and storing the encrypted index data in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Swenson, Umair Akeel, Nicolas Acosta Amador, Byeongung Ahn, Liat Dremer
  • Patent number: 11706349
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11689899
    Abstract: A system and method for triggering on platform usage can include at a platform, receiving and storing a trigger configuration of an account; operating a platform comprising internally executing a process on behalf of an account and publishing at least one event when executing the process; at the platform, incrementing a counter in response to the at least one event and if the stored trigger configuration species a usage key associated with a category of counted events of the at least one event; monitoring counters in a context of an associated trigger; and processing the trigger upon the counter satisfying condition of an associated trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Cooke, Timothy Milliron, Adam Ballai, Matthew D. Nowack, Robert C. Hagemann, III
  • Patent number: 11677638
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for message routing optimization. The message routing optimization system receives requests to transmit messages to recipient devices. The message routing optimization system determines whether to allocate the messages to an optimal routing provider or a secondary routing provider. The message routing optimization ranks the set of routing providers based on a conversion rate index and determines the optimal routing and secondary routing providers based on the ranking. The message routing optimization system allocates messages to the selected routing providers to be delivered to their intended recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jamie O'Shaughnessy, Riivo Kikas, Kaarel Kitsemets
  • Patent number: 11665285
    Abstract: An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11653282
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a multi-tenant communication platform. At a multi-tenant communication platform, and responsive to authentication of a communication request provided by an external system, a routing address record of the communication platform is determined that matches a communication destination of the communication request. The matching routing address record associates the communication destination with a plurality of external communication providers. At least one communication provider associated with the matching routing address record is selected, and a request to establish communication with the communication destination is provided to each selected communication provider. The communication request specifies the communication destination and account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick Malatack
  • Patent number: 11641427
    Abstract: An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11637934
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring account usage on a platform that includes creating an account on a platform; assigning a usage model of the account; running an application of the account on the platform; monitoring usage of the application of the account; identifying a usage event of the usage model in the monitored usage; and generating an event response based on the usage event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey G. Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Mansfield Cooke
  • Patent number: 11637876
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating signaling and media communication at a communication platform that includes receiving a communication request to a resource, wherein the communication request specifies a destination endpoint; establishing signaling and media communication in a session with the destination endpoint of the communication request; registering a callback resource to a signaling event of the session; monitoring signaling messages of the session; detecting the signaling event in the signaling messages of the session; and triggering the callback resource upon detecting the signaling event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jonas Boerjesson, John Wolthuis, Jeffrey Lawson, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11637933
    Abstract: A system and method of a telephony application platform can include receiving a communication session request specifying a destination endpoint, connecting the communication session through a first application module according to the destination endpoint, receiving an instruction to transition communication control to a second application module, transitioning communication control of the communication session to the second application module, independently metering resource usage of the communication session of each application module, and accounting the metered usage of the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11632471
    Abstract: An embodiment of the system for publishing events of a telephony application to a client includes a call router that generates events from the telephony application and an event router that manages the publication of events generated by the call router and that manages the subscription to events by clients. The system can be used with a telephony application that interfaces with a telephony device and an application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke
  • Patent number: 11625751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for the determination of optimal communication scheduling. Send Time Optimization (STO) uses machine learning (ML) to recommend a personalized send time based on a recipient's past engagement patterns. The purpose of the ML model is to learn patterns in the data automatically and use the patterns to make personalized predictions for each recipient. The send time recommended by the model is the time at which the model believes the recipient will be most likely to engage with the message, such as clicking or opening, and use of the send time mode is expected to increase engagement from recipients. Additional customizations include communication-frequency optimization, communication-channel selection, and engagement-scoring model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Claire Electra Longo, Brendon Kyle Villalobos, Liyuan Zhang, Jorge Chang, Elizabeth Yee, Abhishek Bambha
  • Patent number: 11627225
    Abstract: A system and method for programmatically managing device connectivity to a network that includes provisioning connectivity devices with an account of a communication platform, where for a set of the connectivity devices, provisioning includes uniquely associating network operating identifiers of each of the connectivity devices with a corresponding programmatic device resource in the communication platform, setting communication metering properties in a programmatic connectivity plan resource in the communication platform and associating the connectivity plan resource to at least a subset of the device resources of the connectivity devices, and activating network communication status of the connectivity devices; servicing communications from the connectivity devices; and programmatically managing the communications from the connectivity devices through at least the device resources and the connectivity plan resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Chetan Chaudhary, Evan Cummack, Brian Tarricone
  • Patent number: 11622022
    Abstract: A method for a communication platform includes receiving configuration data associated with an account, the configuration data identifying a plurality of communication channels to provide messages to a plurality of communication endpoints. The method also includes receiving a request associated with the account to transmit messages to a set of communication endpoints of the plurality of communication endpoints, and determining, based at least in part on the configuration data, a message payload, the set of communication endpoints, and a set of communication channel identifiers corresponding to the set of communication endpoints. The method further includes transmitting the messages to communication endpoints in the set of communication endpoints, each message including the message payload and being transmitted to a respective communication endpoint using a communication channel identified by a communication channel identifier corresponding to the respective communication endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Viktor Muller, Devid Liik, Sergei Zolotarjov, Sergei Voronichev, Artyom Tyazhelov
  • Patent number: 11616752
    Abstract: A first request to create a content resource from a client device associated with a client account of the SaaS platform is received via a first application programming interface (API) call. The first request specifies message content for messages to be sent via multiple communication channels, identifies the message content in a first format, and format is translatable to multiple second formats that each correspond to one of the communication channels. The content resource received via the first API call is stored, at the SaaS platform. An identifier of the content resource is provided to the client device associated with the client account via a first API response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Haesun Seok, Rebecca Lynn Gebhard, Otávio Dalarossa, Saurabh Daftary