Patents Assigned to VERIZON VIRGINIA
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Patent number: 8948374Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for detecting an incoming telephone signal, processing the incoming telephone signal, transmitting the processed signal to a remote receiver and alerting a remote user of the incoming signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Verizon Virginia LLCInventor: Mark J. Maloney
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Patent number: 8695054Abstract: A system may receive a video asset from a content provider. The system may process the video asset to allow a video provisioning system to distribute the video asset to a set top box and another device that is a different type of device than the set top box. Processing the video asset may include verifying that the video asset conforms to one or more predetermined formats, decrypting the video asset, verifying that the video asset complies with a particular standard of quality, or transcoding the video asset in a manner that is supported by the set top box and the other device. The system may store the transcoded video asset.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon Virginia LLCInventors: John K. Trimper, Arthur C. Claxton
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Patent number: 8612353Abstract: A system may receive an instruction to publish a video asset to a video provisioning system; retrieve profiles associated with the video asset, where a first profile may correspond to a set top box (STB) and a second profile may correspond to another device of a different type than the STB; process the video asset to create a first asset that can be published to a first device, associated with the system, based on the first profile; and process the video asset to create a second asset can be published to a second device, associated with the system, based on the second profile. The system may also publish the first asset to the first device that enables the STB to obtain the first asset from the first device; and publish the second asset to the second device that enables the other device to obtain the second asset from the second device.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon Virginia LLCInventors: John K. Trimper, Arthur C. Claxton
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Patent number: 8200082Abstract: A network may include fiber optic lines and fiber distribution panels connected by the one or more fiber optic lines. At least one of the fiber distribution panels may include an optical fiber connector designated as a connector that is for emergency use. The network may further include a plurality of optical network terminals located at premises of subscribers to the network.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon Virginia LLCInventors: Henry A. McKelvey, Terry O. Sims
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Publication number: 20120079528Abstract: A system may receive an instruction to publish a video asset to a video provisioning system; retrieve profiles associated with the video asset, where a first profile may correspond to a set top box (STB) and a second profile may correspond to another device of a different type than the STB; process the video asset to create a first asset that can be published to a first device, associated with the system, based on the first profile; and process the video asset to create a second asset can be published to a second device, associated with the system, based on the second profile. The system may also publish the first asset to the first device that enables the STB to obtain the first asset from the first device; and publish the second asset to the second device that enables the other device to obtain the second asset from the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: VERIZON VIRGINIA INC., VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.Inventors: John K. TRIMPER, Arthur C. CLAXTON
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Publication number: 20120079527Abstract: A system may receive a video asset from a content provider. The system may process the video asset to allow a video provisioning system to distribute the video asset to a set top box and another device that is a different type of device than the set top box. Processing the video asset may include verifying that the video asset conforms to one or more predetermined formats, decrypting the video asset, verifying that the video asset complies with a particular standard of quality, or transcoding the video asset in a manner that is supported by the set top box and the other device. The system may store the transcoded video asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: VERIZON VIRGINIA INC., VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.Inventors: John K. TRIMPER, Arthur C. CLAXTON
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Publication number: 20110295458Abstract: An exemplary method includes a vehicle operation safety system detecting an operating parameter of a vehicle, detecting that a mobile access device is located within a predefined vicinity of the vehicle, and disabling one or more features of the mobile access device in response to the detecting of the operating parameter of the vehicle and the detecting that the mobile access device is located within the predefined vicinity of the vehicle. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: VERIZON VIRGINIAInventor: Nicole Ma Ellen Halsey-Fenderson
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Publication number: 20080240730Abstract: A network may include fiber optic lines and fiber distribution panels connected by the one or more fiber optic lines. At least one of the fiber distribution panels may include an optical fiber connector designated as a connector that is for emergency use. The network may further include a plurality of optical network terminals located at premises of subscribers to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicants: Verizon Services Corp., Verizon Virginia Inc.Inventors: Henry A. McKelvey, Terry O. Sims
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Publication number: 20080240417Abstract: Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for detecting an incoming telephone signal, processing the incoming telephone signal, transmitting the processed signal to a remote receiver and alerting a remote user of the incoming signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Verizon Virginia Inc.Inventor: Mark J. Maloney