Patents Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
  • Automobile beacon, system, and associated method
    Patent number: 8525695
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for alerting a pedestrian, such as a visually impaired pedestrian, of a vehicle in the vicinity. In general, signals are transmitted from a vehicle to a device carried by a pedestrian, such as a mobile terminal. In response, the pedestrian's device may generate an alarm, such as a vibration or an audible alarm, informing the pedestrian that a vehicle is nearby. In some cases, the pedestrian's device may transmit activation signals to the vehicle after receiving the signals from the vehicle. The activation signals may cause speakers on the vehicle to emit an audible alarm, alerting the pedestrian of the presence of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Kirk E. Cemper
  • Sip refer extensions
    Patent number: 8526592
    Abstract: A system may include a call controller configured to receive a refer message configured to transfer a first endpoint of a call session, the call session being between at least the first endpoint at a first communications device and a second endpoint at a second communications device, the refer message indicating to transfer the first endpoint from the first communications device to a third communications device. The call control may be further configured to subscribe the first communications device to notification messages associated with the referral of the transferred call session, the subscription to the referral extending beyond the call transfer until termination of the call; and send, through the subscription to the first communications device, a notification message indicating termination of the transferred call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy David Paiement, Tan Nguyen, Suresh Anaparti, Dong H. Lee, Todd Eugene Goepferd, Vahiuddin Syed Khaja, Saber Rajmohammed, Sathish Kumar Chevuru
  • Optical signal measurement devices
    Patent number: 8523460
    Abstract: A device includes a female connector to receive a male network connector of a network conduit, and a first male connector optically communicating with the female connector, where the first male connector includes a first indicator that identifies a first wavelength optical signal. The device also includes a second male connector optically communicating with the female connector, where the second male connector includes a second indicator that identifies a second wavelength optical signal. The device further includes a wavelength splitter to receive an optical signal from the network conduit via the female connector, provide the optical signal to the first male connector when the optical signal corresponds to the first wavelength optical signal, and provide the optical signal to the second male connector when the optical signal corresponds to the second wavelength optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun J. Xia, Glenn A. Wellbrock, Nee-Ben Gee
  • Point code to billing ID
    Patent number: 8527377
    Abstract: A method includes maintaining a repository of location identifiers and billing identifiers, wherein each of a plurality of network devices is associated with a location identifier in the repository, and each location identifier is further associated with at least one billing identifier. The method further includes receiving a communications message; determining a location identifier associated with the communications message; selectively retrieving a billing identifier from the repository based at least in part on the location identifier; and determining a billing rate based at least in part on the billing identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: David D'Englere
  • Return loss measurement system
    Patent number: 8525981
    Abstract: A method may include injecting a test signal having a first optical launch power into a device under test via an optical splitter. The optical splitter includes at least two upstream ports and a downstream port and the test signal is injected in a first upstream port of the optical splitter. The device under test is coupled to the downstream port. Return loss associated with the device under test is measured at a second upstream input of the optical splitter. The RL measurement in stored a database. The injecting, measuring, and storing are repeated for a number of different optical launch powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Zhi Chen, Vijay Jain
  • Queue processing system
    Patent number: 8527575
    Abstract: A method, performed by a server device, may include receiving a request from a user device to place a user, associated with the user device, in a particular queue; determining whether the user meets one or more qualifications associated with the queue; placing the user in the particular queue, when the user meets the one or more qualifications; monitoring whether the user continues to meet the one or more qualifications, while the user is in the queue; and removing the user from the particular queue, when the user fails to meet the one or more qualifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Xiao, Andre R. Turner, Dongchen Wang
  • Multiplatform communication and media journal with mapping
    Patent number: 8527505
    Abstract: A plurality of media files may be maintained in a data store, where each of the plurality of media files is associated with at least one indication comprising at least one of a geographic indication and a time indication. At least one indication may be identified, wherein the at least one indication is one of a geographic indication and a time indication. A query may be sent to the data store, wherein the query includes the identified at least one indication and at least one media file may be retrieved from the data store according to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory L. Mumford
  • Dynamic program guide information
    Patent number: 8528016
    Abstract: A set-top box may receive program guide information from a server. The program guide information may identify a group of programs and specify, for each program, an indicator of set-top boxes tuned to the each program or providing the each program. The set-top box may further provide, to a display and using the received program guide information, a program guide, where the program guide represents each program, in the group of programs, as a shape, and where a size of each shape corresponds to the indicator of set-top boxes tuned to the represented program or providing the represented program. The set-top box may also receive updated program guide information from the server and dynamically increase or decrease at least one shape in the program guide, based on the updated program guide information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Aldrey, Shafiq Kassam
  • DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING SUBSCRIBERS TO MANAGE NETWORK TRAFFIC
    Publication number: 20130223222
    Abstract: A system comprising: one or more server devices to: set a first network threshold level for determining network congestion in a network; set rate limiting criteria for determining when one or more subscribers will be rate limited; detect an increase in network congestion at a base station above the first network threshold level; identify one or more subscribers meeting one or more of the rate limiting criteria; rate limit network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers; detect a decrease in network congestion at the base station below a second network threshold level; and remove the rate limiting of the network traffic associated with the one or more subscribers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP d/b/a VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Lalit R. KOTECHA, John F. MACIAS, Patricia R. CHANG, David CHIANG
  • DECORATIVE MICRODUCT CONDUIT
    Publication number: 20130219683
    Abstract: System and method for inserting cable, such as fiber optic cable, into micro-duct and, simultaneously, installing that micro-duct inconspicuously atop baseboard molding or beneath crown molding against walls inside a building, thereby storing dormant cable in installed micro-duct ready to be pressed into service when the occupant requests that service. Color of the micro-duct is the same as, or blends with, color of the baseboard, or the crown molding to make presence of micro-duct as unobtrusive as possible. A special tool is provided for this purpose allowing one person, acting as solitary installer, to perform the installation without help from other people. Bend elbows are provided to prevent severely short bend radii and, thereby, prevent breakage of glass fibers or deteriorated transmission due to insertion loss. Removable splice cover hides splices. Laser test beam can locate optical fiber breaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: David Z. CHEN
  • NEXT GENERATION SECURE GATEWAY
    Publication number: 20130227672
    Abstract: A system includes a cloud-computing infrastructure to provide multitenant access from a public Internet Protocol (IP) network and multiple instances of a virtualized secure gateway operating on one or more physical devices within the cloud-computing infrastructure. The multiple instances of the virtualized secure gateway provide a point of entry to a private IP network. Each instance of the multiple instances of the virtualized secure gateway is configured to terminate multiple virtual private network (VPN) tunnels from a single customer accessing the private IP network via the public IP network, and each instance of the multiple instances of the virtualized secure gateway resides on a different processing core of the physical devices within the cloud-computing infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ricky L. Ogg, Joseph E. Hirschinger
  • Method and system for providing transaction management in a request-oriented service architecture using meta-models
    Publication number: 20130227143
    Abstract: An approach for providing transaction management in a request-oriented service architecture using meta-models is described. A canonical request specifying a feature, declaration information, and an action to be performed on the feature is received, wherein the canonical request is based on a meta-model and an external request indicating the feature and the action. Contents of the request are integrated with a current state of the feature based on the meta-model to generate a transaction. The current state of the feature is updated based on the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Ira Stevens
  • PERSONAL PROGRAM CHANNEL
    Publication number: 20130227597
    Abstract: Method, device, and storage medium for receiving a request for a program from a user device; transmitting the program to the user device; storing tuning information associated with the request of the program; generating a program log that includes a user's viewing history based on the tuning information; analyzing the program log to identify programs of interest to the user; generating personal program channel information based on the analyzing, wherein the personal program channel information includes a schedule of programs; and providing to the user device a personal program channel that operates according to the schedule of programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Arjun Baskaran, Saurabh Gorecha
  • Method and system for providing transaction management in a request-oriented service architecture
    Publication number: 20130227101
    Abstract: An approach for providing a request-oriented service architecture is described. A request, from an originating resource manager, specifying a feature, declaration information, and an action to be performed on the feature is determined. Contents of the request are merged with a current state of the feature to generate a transaction. The transaction is used to update the current state of the feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.
    Inventor: Ira Stevens
  • AVOIDING FAILED ROUTES
    Publication number: 20130223605
    Abstract: A system may include a failed route avoidance device. The failed route avoidance device may receive a notification that a record, of a call that failed to be extended to a contact agent in a customer network, is inserted into a failed call list; determine whether an identifier for the contact agent associated with the call is to be placed in an avoidance list based on a response code that a network element sends, to a call router that received the call, when the a connection from the call at the call router to the contact agent fails to be established; generate an avoidance record when the failed route avoidance device determines that the identifier for the contact agent is to be placed in the avoidance list; and send the avoidance record to a configuration device that inserts the avoidance record into the avoidance list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Steven William Statham, David E. Phelps, Kirk Randall Hill
  • Traffic Policing For MPLS-Based Network
    Publication number: 20130223221
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a storage medium provide for storing traffic policies pertaining to egress traffic to a network; receiving a traffic flow; computing a route for the traffic flow; identifying at least one of one or more labels associated with the traffic flow or a network address associated with a remote provider edge device associated with the traffic flow; selecting one or more traffic policies in response to at least one of an identification of the one or more labels or an identification of the network address; and transmitting along the route in the network according to the one or more traffic policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Fengman Xu, William F. Copeland, Khalid M. Elshatali, Luis M. Tomotaki
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-FACTOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION
    Publication number: 20130227651
    Abstract: An approach for enabling multi-factor biometric authentication of a user of a mobile device is described. A biometric authenticator captures, via a mobile device, first and second biometric data for a user. The biometric authentication further associates the first biometric data and the second biometric data. The biometric authenticator then initiates a multi-factor authentication procedure that utilizes the first biometric data and the second biometric data to authenticate the user based on the association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Paul T. Schultz, Robert A. Sartini
  • SERVICE AGGREGATION IN A CLOUD SERVICES CENTER
    Publication number: 20130227670
    Abstract: A cloud center infrastructure system may include a service aggregator connected directly to a provider network. The service aggregator may be configured to receive, via the provider network, a data unit from a customer device, associated with a customer; identify a first device, associated with a first traffic processing service, based on a sequence of traffic processing services associated with the customer; and send the data unit to the first device, wherein the first device is located in a cloud services center, and wherein the first device is connected to the service aggregator over a Layer 2 connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Syed A. Ahmad, Juzer T. Kopti
  • LAYER TWO EXTENSIONS
    Publication number: 20130223287
    Abstract: A network device may be configured to define a Layer 2 domain, wherein the Layer 2 domain defines a data link layer broadcast domain and assign an access interface to the Layer 2 domain. The network device may be further configured to assign a double Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) identifier to the access interface in the Layer 2 domain, wherein the double VLAN identifier includes an inner VLAN identifier and an outer VLAN identifier, receive a data unit via the access interface, wherein the data unit includes the double VLAN identifier, and associate the data unit with the defined Layer 2 domain, based on the data unit being received via the access interface and based on the data unit including the assigned double VLAN identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Syed A. Ahmad
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON AGGREGATE EVENT DATA
    Publication number: 20130222133
    Abstract: An approach for enabling event notifications to be directed to one or more contacts based on the acquiring of common event data by one or more wireless devices is described. A multimedia event processor receives event data corresponding to an event from a mobile device. The event data is associated with a tag for describing the event data and classified as corresponding to a level of severity based on the tag. A target destination is then determined for transmission of a notification message, the event data, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Paul T. Schultz, Mark J. Hahn, Robert A. Sartini, Harrison Doung