Patents Examined by Asghar Bilgrami
  • Patent number: 9294864
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes an unintended-dialing detection and prevention system 1) determining, based on an unintended-dialing detection heuristic, a phone dialing pattern associated with a phone dialing event of a phone device, 2) determining, based on the unintended-dialing detection heuristic, that the phone dialing pattern associated with the phone dialing event matches a predefined phone dialing pattern indicative of unintended dialing, and 3) automatically performing, in response to the determining that the phone dialing pattern associated with the phone dialing event matches the predefined phone dialing pattern indicative of the unintended dialing, an operation configured to prevent a placement of a phone call by the phone device in response to the phone dialing event. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ming Chen, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9277492
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a mobile wireless device configured to adaptively scan for a preferred wireless network while roaming is described. In one embodiment, at least a portion of a database including characteristic information regarding wireless networks can be stored within the mobile wireless device. Network characteristic information can include mobile country codes, mobile network codes, location area codes and cell-IDs. When the mobile wireless device is connected to a network that is not a preferred network, the mobile wireless device can use the database information in conjunction with characteristics from a connected wireless network to determine when to scan for the preferred wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ben-Heng Juang, Qin Zhang, Ravi Ayyappan
  • Patent number: 9245244
    Abstract: A comprehensive platform for developing digital products. A standardized process is applied to a product development effort and an online portal provides tools to aid the product development, assessment, funding and commercializing products. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between users. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Tracey R. Thomas, Katherine G. Chen
  • Patent number: 9246954
    Abstract: Location information is tagged in a packet based network. SIP signaling messages are used to initiate a communication session between at least two end user devices in a packet based telecommunications network. The communication session is routed through various intermediate network elements of the packet based network. The intermediate network elements tag the signaling messages with information indicating their geographic location or otherwise provide such location information. In response to the signaling messages and preferably before the communication session is established, the location information indicating the location of the intermediate network elements in the routing of the communication session between the end user devices is made available. An end user device or apparatus may receive the location information and provide a user display indicating the routing and status of the communication session being initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Petri Kalevi Koskelainen
  • Patent number: 9240020
    Abstract: A method for recommending content via social signals is provided. Two different content sets having content objects that have content-identifying information are received from separate content providers. Social graph information is received from a service provider. A portion of the first content set and a portion of the second content set are aggregated based at least in part on the social graph information, thereby generating a third content set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventor: Brian Channell
  • Patent number: 9241252
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying an entity associated with a wireless network access point are provided. An estimated location of a wireless network access point and a network name associated with a wireless network access point can be accessed. The network name can be analyzed to identify at least one text signal. An entity associated with the wireless network access point can be identified based at least in part on the text signal. For instance, a confidence score for a plurality of candidate entities identified using the estimated location of the wireless network access point can be determined based on the text signal. The confidence score can be used to identify the entity associated with the wireless network access point. Information associated with the entity can be presented in a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Dua, Alexander Fabrikant
  • Patent number: 9237497
    Abstract: A communication system is described in which a mobile device is able to transfer from a home base station operating in a hybrid or closed, CSG, access modes to a target home base station operating in a hybrid or CSG access mode. A novel handover procedure is described in which the core network is informed of the access mode of the target home base station using a path switch request in the handover procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Vivek Jha
  • Patent number: 9232441
    Abstract: Systems and methods of selecting a data rate for a wireless communication device are disclosed. Data indicative of a power constraint of a first computing device using the wireless communication device may be transmitted to a second computing device. A maximum data rate may be identified based on, at least in part, a power constraint of the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Liron Manor
  • Patent number: 9225798
    Abstract: A wireless application server may receive, from a wireless device, information identifying an application residing on a network device in a home network. The wireless application server may further cause a connection to be established to the application and transfer traffic between the application and the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Kvache, Vincent Phuah, Lujun Jia
  • Patent number: 9218311
    Abstract: A passive cable adaptor for connecting a data source device with a display device is described. The adaptor has a packet-based interface connector at one end, the connector having a positive main link pin, a negative main link pin, a positive auxiliary channel pin, and a negative auxiliary channel pin. At the other end is a micro serial interface connector, wherein multimedia content is transmitted over the cable adaptor and electrical power is supplied over the cable adaptor simultaneously. The cable adaptor has an auxiliary and hot plug detect (HPD) controller utilized to map the auxiliary channel and HPD signals of the packet-based digital display to the micro serial interface ID signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Osamu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9215265
    Abstract: An extension to a file delivery protocol which permits the signaling of cache control information to a receiving device. Various embodiments of the present invention permit a server or other sending device to signal instructions regarding cache control to a receiving device using the file delivery protocol. This signaling may include information such as whether the receiving device should cache a file, how long the file should be cached for, and/or a cache priority assignment for the file. Various embodiments of the present invention may be particularly useful in the transmission of rich media content, where some content may be sent over RTP while other information is transmitted via the file delivery protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Imed Bouazizi
  • Patent number: 9210238
    Abstract: A network data flow management device including: a working packet module configured to store data related to a data flow; at least one network interface connected to the working packet module for receiving and sending data related to data flows; and a processor configured to: receive data from the working packet module and determine if the data flow matches a predetermined protocol; and if the data flow matches the predetermined protocol, send predictive acknowledgments based on the data flow via the network interface. A method for network data flow management including: monitoring a data flow for a predetermined protocol; if the data flow matches the predetermined protocol, saving data relating to the data flow; and creating and sending a predictive acknowledgement packet related to the data flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sandvine Incorporated ULC
    Inventor: Scot Loach
  • Patent number: 9189796
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to collect broadband market data are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes selecting a panelist household, the panelist household subscribing to at least one broadband service delivered via a modem, and identifying an Internet protocol (IP) address assigned to the modem by an Internet service provider (ISP). The example method also includes retrieving a range of IP addresses associated with the ISP, selecting a random subset of IP addresses from the range of IP addresses, and testing each of the IP addresses from the random subset to determine an activity status of each IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Shi Lu, Ranney Fry, Jerome Baccelli
  • Patent number: 9191440
    Abstract: Arrangements are provided which use a host computer to configure a wireless portable device's network connection parameters. The radio on the portable device may be used to help locate nearby accessible wireless networks. Once a synchronization relationship between the portable device and a media library on a host computer is established, periodically updated content, such as podcasts, may be discovered and subscribed to using software on the host computer, and the content synchronized with the host computer. A portable device may manage episodic content, such as podcasts, using the device's own wireless connection, and may further send such content to other portable devices. A central user profile may be set up on a web server to synchronize multiple wireless or wired devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew L. Silverman, Dennis Kiilerich, Joshuah Vincent
  • Patent number: 9179301
    Abstract: A method for protecting data contained in a security module of a telecommunication device equipped with a near-field communication router and with a microcontroller, wherein data relative to the routing between the security module and gates of the router assigned to near-field communications are transmitted over a channel accessible by the router only, or by a control signal which is not generated by the microcontroller for the router.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: PROTON WORLD INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventors: Thierry Huque, Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze
  • Patent number: 9167036
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managed object replication and delivery redirects, directly or indirectly, a client's request for an object that is not available at a best or optimal handling edge server of a network to a parent server that has the requested object. So, where the requested object is not available at the handling edge server, the client's request is redirected directly to the parent server that can provide the requested object to the client or indirectly via one or more parent servers to a parent server that can provide the requested object to the client. The method, system and computer program product further intelligently replicates the object to the edge server if the object is popular enough. Likewise, an object is removed from an edge server when it is no longer popular. All redirection and replication operations are preferably transparent to the end-user and do not degrade the quality of service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Seed, Kevin Hobbs, Shane M. Glynn, Isaac W. Foraker, Peter J. Jones, Homer H. Chen, William Patrick Greer
  • Patent number: 9160496
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are presented for H-ARQ process dynamic memory management. A method for dynamically managing memory for storing data associated with H-ARQ processes is presented, which includes receiving a packet associated with a H-ARQ process, determining if a free memory location is available in a H-ARQ buffer, assigning the packet to the free memory location, determining if the packet was successfully decoded, and retaining the packet in the assigned memory location for combination with a subsequent packet retransmission if the packet was not successfully decoded. Also presented are apparatus having logic configured to perform the presented methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Sidi, Samson Jim
  • Patent number: 9147180
    Abstract: An enterprise email governance system including an enterprise-wide email communication item events monitoring subsystem providing at least near real time indications of email communication item events and an enterprise-wide email communication item events storage subsystem receiving inputs from the monitoring subsystem and providing at least near real time user accessibility to the email communication item events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ohad Korkus, Yakov Faitelson, Ophir Kretzer-Katzir, David Bass
  • Patent number: 9143473
    Abstract: According to a first embodiment of the invention, if an e-mail sender attempts to make too many connections within a predetermined period of time, the excess connections are automatically rejected. According to a second embodiment of the invention, an agreement is established between an e-mail sender and an e-mail recipient that states when the sender may send e-mail messages to the recipient. According to a third embodiment of the invention, trend data reflecting an amount of e-mail sent by a sender is collected. The trend data can be used to establish a rate limit for the sender. According to a fourth embodiment of the invention, separate rate limits are established for authenticated and unauthenticated mail from addresses. According to a fifth embodiment of the invention, a sender may have a rate at which their e-mail is transmitted reduced if they exceed predetermined rate limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: UNWIRED PLANET, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce L. Brown, Jr., Samuel G. Silberman, Mark H. Granoff, Rajesh P. Chaube, Robert M. Fleischman, Michael S. Zraly
  • Patent number: 9143225
    Abstract: Disclosed is a ranging transmission method comprising: a mobile station receiving a message including backoff window information from a base station; and the mobile station performing ranging transmission on the basis of the backoff window information, wherein the message includes a ranging backoff window indicator indicating an increase or decrease in a backoff window size for ranging retransmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jinsoo Choi, Hangyu Cho, Jinsam Kwak, Youngsoo Yuk