Patents Assigned to Verizon Data Services
  • Patent number: 8407188
    Abstract: Providing data form management may comprise receiving form definition data, transforming the form definition data into an internal data structure, and storing the internal data structure in a form definition data table. In addition, providing data form management may comprise creating a form input data table corresponding to the form definition data table and notifying a form datastore that caches the internal data structure stored in the form definition data table. Furthermore, receiving the form definition data may further comprise providing a data page including at least one form component being user arrangeable on the data page and providing the ability to move, add, or delete at least one form component on the data page. The form definition data may define one of the form component or the location of the form component on the data page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Tao Yang, Amit Singh, Fariborz Ebrahimi, Edy Setaiwan
  • Patent number: 8374354
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a network, a request to provision and provide a private key, the private key being for use with a public and private key system. The method further includes identifying a requester that has made the request via the network and initiating a secure session with the requester. The method also includes providing the private key using the secure session, and provisioning the private key. A system is provided including a distribution location providing access to a network, a terminal selectively connected to the network via the distribution location. The system further includes a network authority selectively connected to the network and the terminal, and a certificate authority selectively connected to the network. The certificate authority is configured to provide and provision a private key, and the network authority is configured to selectively provide a secure session between the terminal and the certificate authority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventor: David E. Berggren
  • Patent number: 8347203
    Abstract: Systems and methods for defining a form navigational structure associated with at least one node in a process flow may comprise selecting a node form for the at least one node in the process flow, the node form identifying a plurality of displayable forms. Furthermore, the systems and methods may include defining a plurality of node steps for the node, each node step corresponding to a displayable screen associated with a subset of the plurality of displayable forms. Moreover, the systems and methods may include establishing a hierarchical tree structure associating the plurality of node steps, branches in the hierarchical tree structure having associated validation rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Edy Setiawan, Amit Singh, Fariborz Ebrahimi
  • Patent number: 8311199
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. In another aspect, when configuring a conference call event, a subscriber user may enter, select or otherwise designate conference information that the user wishes to be displayed in the caller identification fields that are sent out when a bridge dials the participant users associated with the conference call. Once identified, each participant user is contacted and a response is received from each of the users. Based on the received responses, a conference call is established between the participant users and the subscriber user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Verizon Services Corp., Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Christopher L. Helbling, Craig L. Reding, Paula Ann Dromlewicz, John Reformato
  • Patent number: 8291047
    Abstract: An interface can serve as a client-mainframe interface, enabling clients to develop applications without a need to understand mainframe processes and screen flows. Extended Tool Command Language (Tcl) can define services that can include a series of interactions with a mainframe system and service definitions can be added or updated on the interface during operation of the interface without disrupting processing. The service definitions can enable the interface to receive XML requests from a client, parse the XML requests, execute the service scripts to interact with the mainframe systems, generate the result in a XML format and send the XML file back to the client. Fundamental Mainframe Interactions (FMI) commands can interact with the mainframe systems and enable the specification of the XML structure of the request and response. The interface can provide efficient connection pooling management and connection life cycle control to improve the performance of the mainframe system interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Youzhong Liu, Tao Pan, Kaushhik Pillalamarri, Khaldoun Sabagh, Fariborz Ebrahimi
  • Patent number: 8285856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating a messaging service with an application may comprise integrating a front end of the application with the messaging service. Furthermore, systems and methods for integrating a messaging service with an application may comprise integrating a messaging service login and an application login, the messaging service login being associated with the messaging service and the application login being associated with the application. Moreover, systems and methods for integrating a messaging service with an application may comprise configuring the messaging service to initiate business logic based upon at least one of opening a session with the messaging service and closing a session with the messaging service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Akash Jain, Amit Singh, Miguel Quiroga, Syed Zafar Beyabani, Fariborz Ebrahimi
  • Patent number: 8280999
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for remotely rebooting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication devices. In general, the apparatus remotely selects VoIP communication devices connected to a network, reboots the selected devices, and evaluates the status of each device. A processor allows a user to select VoIP communication devices connected to the network and receives inputs pertaining to the reboot operation, including a time input and search criteria. The processor communicates with the designated VoIP communication devices over a packet-switching network to instruct the devices to reboot and monitors each device. In this way, multiple VoIP communication devices may be rebooted from a remote location, and problems or issues that arise during the reboot process may be identified and addressed. An associated method and computer program product are also provided for remotely rebooting VoIP communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Robert H. Liao, Rezwanul Azim, Elliot Eichen, Juan Vasquez
  • Patent number: 8265068
    Abstract: A system including a first network configured to receive IP device data from an IP device and to provide one or more IP addresses of the IP device based on the IP device data; a second network comprising: a second network location database configured to store physical location information, and a second network location server configured to receive the one or more IP addresses of the IP device from the first network, and query the second network location database to determine physical location information of the IP device based on the one or more IP addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Robert Olshansky, Eric R. Sporel
  • Publication number: 20120166568
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for group messaging are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a group messaging system receiving a broadcast message from an originating user, imposing a limit on a number of text characters included in the broadcast message, identifying a group of intended recipients of the broadcast message, determining contact information for an intended recipient included in the group, determining at least one broadcast message sending method for the intended recipient, and sending the broadcast message to the intended recipient using the at least one broadcast message sending method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicants: Verizon Data Services, Inc., Verizon Services Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Helbling, Craig L. Reding, Ashutosh Sureka, Paula Dromlewicz, Sandeep Chakravarty, John Reformato
  • Patent number: 8185552
    Abstract: A system and method for creating and classifying listings within user-defined marketplaces. An information database in communication with an information application comprises a plurality of marketplaces and a plurality of listings respectively classified within the plurality of marketplaces. The marketplaces stored in the information database may be either pre-defined or user-defined. User-defined marketplaces are created based at least in part on information supplied by an access device in communication with the information database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Alfred L. Chow, Sivakumar Chinnasamy, Douglas G. Heatherly, Eric D. Chandler
  • Publication number: 20120123727
    Abstract: In one of many possible embodiments, an exemplary system includes a test management subsystem configured to provide a user portal to a user of a circuit provided by a service provider, the user portal including a tool enabling the user to select a signal loop for testing at least a section of the circuit, the signal loop being selected from a plurality of signal loop options. The system also includes a network management subsystem communicatively coupled to the test management subsystem, the network management subsystem being configured to receive data representative of the selection from the test management subsystem and instruct, based on the selection, a network device along the circuit to execute a loop-back mode. In certain embodiments, the selected signal loop defines a test pattern signal flow for testing a subsection of the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicants: Verizon Business Financial Managment Corporation, Verizon Data Services Inc., Verizon Services Corp.
    Inventors: Yiming Wang, Lauren B. Adelson, David J. Buie, Colleen Davis, Peter C. Serubo, Roland J. Zito-Wolf
  • Publication number: 20120106728
    Abstract: Methods and systems providing access to integrated communications services are disclosed. A notification of a call to a user is received at a device associated with the user, the device being connected to a data network and including a base unit, a handset, and a user interface, wherein the device is determined based on retrieved data corresponding to the user, and the retrieved data was retrieved using information pertaining to the call. Input from the user indicative of a response to the notification is also received at the device. Response information reflective of the response to the notification is then sent to the server, wherein the server instructs a service control point to connect the call based on the response to the notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: Verizon Laboratories Inc., MCI Financial Management Corp., Verizon Services Corp., Verizon Data Services Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Ghaffari, Afshin Moshrefi, Shadman Zafar, Shaygan Kheradpir, Robert A. Chingon, Stephen Brennan, Christopher L. Helbling, Nagendra Kunuturi, Ravi Penumatsa, Mahesh Rajagopalan, Craig L. Reding, John R. Reformato, John H. Wurster, Sandeep Chakravarty, Byron M. Pinto, Alin D'Silva, Zlauddin Majid, Satya Raju
  • Patent number: 8130917
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for facilitating group messaging to various communication devices are disclosed. A method disclosed includes receiving from an originating user a broadcast message having an address designating at least in part a group of recipients. Next, an intended recipient may be identified based on at least a part of the address. An indication of the broadcast message may then be sent to the intended recipient in accordance with a sending method that is dynamically selected from a set of sending methods associated with the intended recipient based on characteristics associated with the intended recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignees: Verizon Data Services LLC, Verizon Services Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Helbling, Craig L. Reding, Ashutosh Sureka, Paula Dromlewiez, Sandeep Chakravarty, John Reformato
  • Patent number: 8108458
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a sender, a contact selection related to a shipping request, identifying package shipping data associated with the selected contact, and providing the shipping request, including the package shipping data, to a shipping provider. The method further includes receiving a package identifier related to the shipping request from the shipping provider and associating the package identifier to a sender identifier related to the sender and a contact identifier related to the selected contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Raul Aldrey, Diego Crespo, Anil Guntupalli, Sudhanshu Sharma
  • Patent number: 8103741
    Abstract: Location based content aggregation and distribution systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a content hub subsystem receiving a content posting from an access device connected to a network. The content posting includes data representative of a content instance created by a user associated with the access device and a geographic location associated with the content instance. The exemplary method further includes the content hub subsystem storing the content posting and selectively distributing the content instance to at least one other access device connected to the network based on the geographic location, wherein a past or present physical location of the at least one other access device within a predefined proximity of the geographic location is requisite to the distribution of the content instance to the at least one other access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea
  • Publication number: 20120014515
    Abstract: In an exemplary method, at least one telephony attribute associated with a voice call directed from a client communication subsystem to a voice network identifier is detected. Visual content that has been predefined as being associated with the at least one telephony attribute is identified. A request for the visual content is initiated in response to the detecting step. The visual content is received, in response to the initiating step, for display at the client communication subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services Inc.
    Inventors: Jimena Velarde, Edwin Elberg, Luis Blando, John Valdez, Michael J. Naggar, Mona A. Goldstein, Sudhanshu Sharma, Raul Aldrey
  • Publication number: 20120011145
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes an element server in a video hub office configured to provide a media signal to a content processing device located at a customer premises and at least one computing device remote from the video hub office and the customer premises. The computing device comprises a first data store that includes a plurality of presentation elements, a second data store that includes information concerning associations of the presentation elements with a chunk that is a logical grouping of the presentation elements, and an element management subsystem that provides the presentation elements associated with the chunk to the element server in the video hub office, the element server configured to cache the presentation elements for use by the element server in fulfilling a request from the content processing device, wherein the computing device provides a user interface that presents information about the presentation elements associated with the chunk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Laxmi Patel, Japan Mehta
  • Patent number: 8094791
    Abstract: A system includes at least one service switching device in communication with a first calling device and a second calling device. The system further includes at least one service control point in communication with the at least one service switching device and is configured to route incoming and outgoing calls between the first and the second calling devices, wherein the service control point is configured to collect and save biometric keystrokes from a calling party to identify the calling party to a called party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventor: James M. Kondziela
  • Patent number: 8069247
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes detecting a request to launch an application on a device, accessing metadata associated with the application over a network, using the metadata to determine whether sufficient resources are available to launch the application on the device, and performing at least one action based on said determination. The at least one action may include launching the application on the device when sufficient resources are available or blocking a launch of the application on the device when sufficient resources are not available. In certain embodiments, the method is performed by the device. In certain embodiments, the device includes a set-top box configured to access a media service over the network. Corresponding methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Prasad Raella, Manish Verma
  • Patent number: 8036355
    Abstract: In an exemplary method, at least one telephony attribute associated with a voice call directed from a client communication subsystem to a voice network identifier is detected. Visual content that has been predefined as being associated with the at least one telephony attribute is identified. A request for the visual content is initiated in response to the detecting step. The visual content is received, in response to the initiating step, for display at the client communication subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Jimena Velarde, Edwin Elberg, Luis Blando, John P. Valdez, Michael J. Naggar, Mona A. Goldstein, Sudhanshu Sharma, Raul Aldrey