Patents Assigned to VERIZON
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Publication number: 20150142537Abstract: A device receives an image captured by a user device at an event or at an event location, and analyzes the captured image to determine the event or the event location. The device analyzes the captured image to determine an entity associated with the event or the event location, and determines, based on the captured image, a product, a service, and/or content associated with the event, the event location, and/or the entity. The device provides, to the user device, information associated with the product, the service, and/or the content, where the information identifies a location at the event location from which to purchase the product, the service, and/or the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Bruce SEARS
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Publication number: 20150138989Abstract: A method includes identifying a plurality of network components in a network topology of a data transmission network, identifying data transmission performance patterns based on at least one key performance indicator (KPI) for each of the plurality of network components, identifying at least one data transmission issue in the network, and identifying a model degraded performance pattern associated with the at least one data transmission issue. The method may also include matching the model degraded performance pattern to the data transmission performance patterns to form matched performance patterns, and identifying a root-cause component from the network components based on the matched performance pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.Inventors: Donna L. Polehn, Lalit R. Kotecha, Patricia R. Chang, Deepak Kakadia, John F. Macias, Priscilla Lau, Yee Sin Chan, Arda Aksu
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Publication number: 20150142677Abstract: An approach for predicting potential reliability or performance issues associated with a product and presenting various options to address those potential issues includes determining one or more parameters associated with a transaction related to a product. The approach also includes obtaining, in response to the transaction and based on the one or more parameters, a metric describing a predicted operational status of the product. Further, the approach includes initiating a presentation, based on the metric, of one or more potential actions associated with the transaction and related to the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon WirelessInventors: Siva PATMAN, William Dakota COMMONS, Ramakrishna KANNAMANGALAM, Vijayakumar PANDIARAJAN
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Publication number: 20150139081Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a wireless transceiver that transmits data packets including background traffic data packets and a transceiver control unit that controls transmission by the wireless transceiver of the data packets. The transceiver control unit receives, prior to their transmission, all data packets that are to be transmitted by the wireless transceiver. The transceiver control unit includes an aggregation unit that aggregates all background traffic data packets received by the transceiver control unit over an aggregation period of a certain maximum duration and causes the wireless transceiver to wirelessly transmit the aggregated background traffic data packets only after the aggregation period has expired.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.Inventors: Yee Sin Chan, Kalyani Bogineni, Jin Yang
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Publication number: 20150143517Abstract: A computing device detects and mitigates malicious input at the point of origin before such input invades a communication network. A computing device receives, at an operating system kernel, a first input string and stores, in a cache accessible to the kernel, a copy of the first input string. The computing device receives, by the operating system kernel, a second input string and compares the copy of the first input string and the second input string for redundancy before committing the second input string to an application or communication interface. The computer device rejects the second input when the comparing indicates that the copy of the first input string and the second input string are redundant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: John Scott Perez
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Publication number: 20150139407Abstract: An approach for subscriber migration to alternative access networks is described. A subscriber migration platform determines a fault in a wireline voice network associated with a subscriber premise, determines that the subscriber premise is associated with a chronic account based on the fault, and migrates the subscriber premise from the wireline voice network to a wireless voice network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Thomas MAGUIRE, Thomas K. MACNABB, Edward A. CLEAVER, Srinivasa M. KALAPALA, Porusp N. MARSHALL, Himanshu POLAVARAPU, Velamur Srinivasan SUDHARSAN
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Publication number: 20150137398Abstract: A system may include a fiber distribution hub including a plurality of fiber-optic cables, wherein a particular one of the plurality of fiber-optic cables includes a machine-readable identifier; and a robotic device configured to access particular ones of the plurality of fiber-optic cables. The robotic device may include a print head configured to splice together the particular ones of the plurality of fiber-optic cables by three-dimensional printing of a silane material. A hand-held unit may also include a print head configured to splice together fiber-optic cables by three-dimensional printing of a silane material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.Inventor: John Scott Perez
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Patent number: 9036589Abstract: A first network device may receive an instruction to transmit a data flow and select a particular second network device based on a selection rule. The particular second network device providing may provide to an external network. The first network device may identify a path to the particular second network device. The particular path may include one or more third network devices that are different from the first network device. The first network device may provide the data flow to the particular second network device via the path to cause the particular second network device to transmit the data flow towards a destination device.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Deepak Kakadia, Thomas H. Tan, Arda Aksu
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Patent number: 9038091Abstract: An exemplary method includes a broker-based messaging system detecting a request provided by a software application for the software application to connect to any one of a plurality of brokers included in a cluster of brokers, dynamically identifying, in response to the request and in accordance with a connection distribution heuristic, a broker included in the cluster of brokers and that is available for connection to the software application, and attempting to establish a connection between the software application and the broker. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Suresh S. Jonnagadla, Robert G. Daugherty, Shailender K. Gola, Ha Tam Nham
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Patent number: 9036961Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods for testing communication media and devices are disclosed herein. An exemplary system may include a transmitting media support and a receiving media support, each including a plurality of communication media. The system may further include a movement support configured to selectively translate the receiving media support relative to the transmitting media support between a transmission position and a free position. In the transmission position, a receiving media may be engaged with the transmitting media to receive an initiated signal from the transmitting media. In the free position, a first end face of the receiving media may be spaced apart from a second end face of the transmitting media, thereby preventing contact between the first and second end faces. The movement support may be further configured to align the at least one of the receiving media with the transmitting media.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: David Zhi Chen
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Patent number: 9037628Abstract: A device may receive, from a first peer in a network, a request for a list of one or more candidate peers from which the first peer can obtain a resource. In addition, the device may obtain the list in response to the request, determining a set of costs based on the list, and refine the list to obtain a subset list of the candidate peers based on the set of costs. Furthermore, the device may send to, the first peer, the subset list of the candidate peers from which the first peer can obtain the resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Douglas M. Pasko, Jeffrey H. Swinton
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Patent number: 9038135Abstract: A first network device receives an authentication request, from a second network device, to authenticate a user device and a first over-the-top application, stored on the user device, to determine whether to apply a level of quality of service to the first over-the-top application. The first network device authenticates the user device, based on the authentication requested. The first network device authenticates the first over-the-top application, based on the authentication request. The first network device sends an authentication result, based on the authentication of the user device and the first over-the-top application, to the second network device; and the second network device initiates, based on the authentication result, a process to apply a level of quality of service to information sent between the first over-the-top application and a provider associated with the first over-the-top application.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, William H. Stone, Matthew W. Nelson, Sanyogita Shamsunder
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Patent number: 9036508Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: Syed A. Ahmad
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Patent number: 9038105Abstract: A video service provider system may include one or more devices. The one or more device may receive thumbnails of programs that are currently airing on a group of television channels and match the received thumbnails with metadata. The metadata may include information relating to at least one of the television channels or the programs. The one or more devices may further provide, to a remote device, a set of thumbnails, of the captured thumbnails, and the metadata matching the set of thumbnails. The remote device may make the set of thumbnails and the metadata available to a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Zhiying Jin, Sarma Pydipally, Haosheng Guo, Haiyan Zhou, Fang Zhu, Jianxiu Hao
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Patent number: 9038104Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a system and method for providing a program guide for past programming comprising receiving a user command to retrieve program data, retrieving the program data from a data source, and outputting, to a display device, the program data in response to receiving the user command. The program data may comprise information relating to previously-aired programming.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Joel Angiolillo, Angel Cordero, Xi Zhang
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Patent number: 9038159Abstract: A user device is configured to request a secure web page from a web page server. The user device is further configured to receive a certificate from the web page server, the certificate including a serial number. The user device is further configured to receive different certificates from a plurality of certificate authentication servers. The user device is further configured to compare the different certificates to the certificate received from the web page server; determine that the certificate is valid; and send information to the web page server based on determining that the certificate is valid.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Karmaveer R. Koonjbearry, Velamur Srinivasan Sudharsan
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Patent number: 9035993Abstract: An approach for splitting a communication data stream into an audio data stream and a video data stream, anchoring the audio data stream at an anchor point within a network, and bypassing anchoring of the video data stream at the anchor point within the network to reduce a processing load at the anchor point.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Lee N. Goodman, Elliot G. Eichen, James Flynn
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Patent number: 9035799Abstract: A device may receive map data that identifies a parking facility located in a particular geographic area; identify the parking facility based on the map data; receive parking data that identifies an available or an unavailable parking space located in the parking facility; combine the map data and the parking data to form combined data; and provide the combined data for display. The combined data may cause a map of the particular geographic area to be displayed. The map may have a representation of the parking facility, a representation of a number of available or unavailable parking spaces in the parking facility, or a representation of an entrance of the parking facility.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: David D. Wayne Love
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Patent number: 9037115Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a computing device, a call originally directed to a mobile device, and forwarding the call to at least one other device. The method further includes determining that the forwarded call is not answered by the at least one other device and forwarding two versions of the call to the mobile device, such that one of the two versions of the call is automatically directed toward a voicemail account associated with the mobile device. The other of the two versions of the call is then canceled.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Elliot G. Eichen, Lee N. Goodman, James Flynn, Sujin Catherine Chang, Rafael Andres Gaviria Velez, Rezwanul Azim, Gowtham Javaregowda, Punita Mishra
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Patent number: 9038110Abstract: A system and methods for providing an interactive program guide (IPG) to a mobile device are disclosed. The system generally includes a network component which receives IPG data including program data, and a mobile device application component which receives program data from the network component and displays the program data on the mobile device. The methods may include providing a mobile IPG application to a mobile device, receiving IPG data including program data with a network component, transmitting the program data from the network component to the mobile device, and formatting the program data for the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Alexander Kvache