Patents Assigned to VERIZON
  • Patent number: 10958713
    Abstract: An Edge Compute Network (“ECN”) may provide compute devices with configurable compute resources at different network edges for selective localized and low latency execution of user-defined operations. A user may provide a set of operations in any of several supported programming languages, and the ECN may create an executable environment that can execute the set of operations using the compute resources of any ECN compute device. A function manager for a compute device may selectively initialize, based on requests to execute the set of operations and an initialization policy, the executable environment so that the set of operations can be directly executed using the compute resources of that compute device upon request. The function manager may also selectively remove initialized executable environments based on compute device resource utilization, executable environment usage, and a removal policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Shiell, William Pressly, Mehrdad Arshad Rad
  • Patent number: 10955557
    Abstract: A system can include a producer device to receive reference data from a reference station. The system can include a queue device to store a reference message, corresponding to the reference data, in a message queue. The system can include a mapping device to store mapping information indicating that the message queue is associated with the reference station. The system can include a consumer device to identify the message queue as being associated with a microservice to be provided to a client device based on a microservice request. The message queue can be identified based on the mapping information. The consumer device can obtain the reference message from the message queue, generate corrections data associated with the client device, and provide the corrections data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lee E. Sattler, Ashish Sardesai, Mani Tadayon, Dante J. Pacella, Saravanan Mallesan, Venkata Josyula, Christopher N. Delregno, Jean M. McManus, Mohammed M. Rahman, Matthew W. Turlington
  • Patent number: 10959053
    Abstract: An illustrative system includes a network device, of a wireless network, configured to determine location information associated with a user equipment (UE) connected to the wireless network, encode the location information in a resource assignment signal configured to assign a resource of the wireless network for use by the UE, and transmit the resource assignment signal including the encoded location information to the UE. The UE may be configured to receive the transmitted resource assignment signal including the encoded location information, decode the encoded location information, and use the location information for one or more operations of the UE, such as to determine a geographic location of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Chiang, Jin Yang, Arda Aksu
  • Patent number: 10958741
    Abstract: Among other disclosures, a method may include collecting historical communication data and personal data relating to a portion of a plurality of communications, a sender of one or more of the communications or one or more recipients of the communications. The method may include depositing the collected data into a repository of historical communication data and personal data. The method may include presenting one or more items in the repository, in response to user behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Brezina, Adam Smith
  • Patent number: 10959169
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio access network slice and core network slice service is provided based on RAN-CN network slice pairing information. A radio access network slice and/or a core network slice uses the RAN-CN network slice pairing information to select network resources to support sessions of end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include location information, radio access network slice information, core network slice information correlated to different types or applications or services available to end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include information indicating current and available radio access network resources pertaining to the radio access network slices and threshold resources that may be used to support the different types of applications or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyani Bogineni, Ratul K. Guha, Jignesh S. Panchal, Niranjan B. Avula
  • Publication number: 20210083959
    Abstract: An edge device may obtain, via a base station, one or more respective requests from one or more user devices to access content. The edge device may determine a total number of the one or more user devices and may determine that the total number of the one or more user devices satisfies a threshold. The edge device may determine, based on the total number of the one or more user devices satisfying the threshold, a latency requirement associated with the content and may determine whether the edge device can satisfy the latency requirement. The edge device may selectively cause, based on determining whether the edge device can satisfy the latency requirement, the edge device or a different edge device to send the content to the one or more user devices via the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin YANG, Sagiv DRAZNIN, Matthew W. NELSON
  • Patent number: 10951790
    Abstract: An image capturing device may capture image data for processing to form an image. The image capturing device may perform a hashing procedure on the image data, wherein performing the hashing procedure generates a hash value of the image data. The image capturing device may provide, to an image authentication device, the hash value of the image data, wherein the hash value of the image data is to be used by the image authentication device to validate the image based on a request to authenticate the image received from a receiving device. The image capturing device may process the image data to form the image for display to a user. The image capturing device may provide, after providing the hash value of the image data to the image authentication device, the image for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ashish Sardesai, Dante J. Pacella
  • Patent number: 10950250
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and removing traceable identifying audio content from electronic media content. One method includes: receiving, over a network, media content to be broadcast or distributed, the media content including audio data; determining whether the audio data of the media content includes traceable identifying audio content defined by an audio identifier; generating new audio data based on the audio data of the media content when an audio identifier is determined to be include in the audio data; removing audio data from the media content when the audio identifier is determined to be include in the audio data; adding the new audio data to the media content when the audio data is removed from the media content; and broadcasting or distributing the media content having the new audio data to one or more user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Mitchell Demsey, Jay Crystal
  • Patent number: 10951388
    Abstract: A device may receive a signal from a wireless station; and determine a network-permitted Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink duty cycle based on the signal. If the determined network-permitted TDD uplink duty cycle is greater than a maximum allowable TDD uplink duty cycle for the device, when the device performs TDD uplink transmission after receiving a scheduling grant from the wireless station, the device may decrease the TDD uplink duty cycle of the device or may decrease a time-average transmission power of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 10951497
    Abstract: A device may configure a centralized performance indicator data store for a plurality of network function devices included in a telecommunications system. The centralized performance indicator data store may be accessible by the plurality of network function devices on a management bus of the telecommunications system via a service-based interface. The device may subscribe the centralized performance indicator data store to a message class associated with performance indicator data that is generated by the plurality of network function devices. The device may receive, from the plurality of network function devices, one or more published communications associated with the message class. The one or more published communications may include the performance indicator data. The device may store the performance indicator data in the centralized performance indicator data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Imtiyaz Shaikh, Maria G. Lam, Maqbool Chauhan, Jerry Steben, David Taft, John P. Demko
  • Patent number: 10952264
    Abstract: Provided is a device that persistently distributes connectionless traffic across different simultaneously executing server instances in a manner that allows a first set of server instances of the device to commence a new first set of connectionless data streams during a first interval, and a different second set of server instances of the device to commence a different second set of connectionless data streams as the first set of server instances respond to ongoing connectionless data streams of the first set of connectionless data streams during a subsequent second interval. The persistent distribution further supports virtual connection migration by distributing, to the same server instance, data packets that are directed to the same connectionless data stream even when the sending user equipment changes addressing during the connectionless data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Digital Media Services Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Leonardo Ruiz, Derek Shiell
  • Patent number: 10951770
    Abstract: A device receives, from a server device, a request to determine whether a call is authorized to be forwarded, where the call is intended to be established between the server device and a first client device via a network, and the call is forwarded from the first client device to a second client device. The device receives, from the network, network data associated with the call and account data associated with a first user of the first client device. The device determines that the call is forwarded based on the network data, and processes the account data and information indicating that the call is forwarded, with a machine learning model, to determine a score indicating whether the call is authorized to be forwarded. The device provides the score to the server device to cause the server device to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Haltom, Lulia Ann Barakat
  • Patent number: 10951593
    Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a programmatic control channel for granting or denying access to user data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an input stream of data including user data and a first regulatory control channel (RCC) data structure; building a final RCC data structure based on the first RCC data structure and a stored RCC data structure; retrieving a regulatory query context (RQC) from a data requestor; applying one or more Boolean operators to the final RCC data structure and the RQC to obtain an evaluation result; and executing the downstream processing if the evaluation result comprises a passing evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Wendell Baker, Kristof Nagel
  • Patent number: 10949269
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. Event information associated with a plurality of events may be identified. The plurality of events may be associated with first entities corresponding to a first entity type and second entities associated with a second entity type. A first network profile associated with the first entities and the second entities may be generated based upon the event information. An iterative process may be performed to identify a coalition network associated with fraudulent activity. The iterative process may include analyzing the first network profile to identify a first set of entities, of the first entities, that are related to an entity of the second entities, and/or analyzing the first network profile to identify a second set of entities, of the second entities, that are related to the first set of entities. Multiple iterations may be performed to identify the coalition network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Ruichen Wang, Timothy Michael Olson, Yan Han, Jian Tian, Robert Jason Harris, Shaima Abdul Majeed
  • Patent number: 10949449
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for efficiently storing and retrieving electronic communication are provided. Messages with the same structure are grouped into a same cluster. A template is created for the cluster. The template is populated with constant values that are the same amongst the messages. Variable values that are different amongst the messages are stored within user account repositories for each message. In this way, the constant values are merely stored once for the messages within the cluster. A template within a general repository and variable values within a user account repository may be used to reconstruct a message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Media Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Raviv, Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Joel Oren
  • Patent number: 10948982
    Abstract: An exemplary virtual reality media system assigns a plurality of display parameters to a three-dimensional (“3D”) virtual object that is to be integrated into an immersive virtual reality world. The plurality of display parameters define a time period during which the 3D virtual object is viewable within the world to a user experiencing the world, as well as a location, an orientation, and a size of the 3D virtual object as these appear to the user during the time period. The system integrates the 3D virtual object into the world in accordance with the display parameters and dynamically changes a display parameter during the time period to change the location, orientation, and/or size of the 3D virtual object. The system further integrates content into the world by presenting the content on the 3D virtual object while the display parameter is dynamically changing. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Ali Jaafar
  • Patent number: 10949469
    Abstract: A device can receive parking information for a set of street segments within a geographic region. The parking information can include metadata for a set of parking spaces within the set of street segments. The device can create a set of block-face objects that represent block-faces within the set of street segments. The device can generate a data structure that associates the parking information for the set of street segments with the set of block-face objects. The device can receive, from a user device, a request for parking information associated with a geographic area. The device can obtain the parking information associated with the geographic area by using location information included in the request to search the data structure. The device can provide the parking information associated with the geographic area for display on a user interface of the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Holman, Megan M. Latta, Matthew Wickman
  • Patent number: 10951612
    Abstract: An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
  • Patent number: 10951719
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide unified policy management framework network functions in enterprise networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sivanaga Ravi Kumar Chunduru Venkata, Raju Sharma, Manish Srivastava, Susmitha Hymasree Pulakhandam, Kumara B. Tamada, Anuj Dutia, Ramesh Nadella
  • Patent number: 10952150
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in which a Listen Before Talk-based dynamic energy detection service is provided. The dynamic energy detection service includes provisioning a dynamic threshold value that is used during a clear channel assessment procedure. The dynamic threshold value may be increased or decreased by an adjustment value depending on the success or failure of a data transmission indicated by an end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin Vargantwar