Patents by Inventor Amar N. Ray

Amar N. Ray has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12051126
    Abstract: Described herein is a method by which more than one person is enabled to actively participate in the process of finalizing a real estate property either for purchase or rent. Each deciding party is enabled to create a custom style profile capturing their individual preferences at an attribute level by providing both visual and verbal feedback. A Collective Preferences Profile (CPP) is created by integrating the multiple style profiles of the chosen deciding parties. The generated CPP is then utilized to curate the different houses available and to surface those houses that are most likely to fit the aesthetic and requirements of the combined audience. The CPP evolves on an ongoing basis by active solicitation of feedback on properties viewed or waitlisted to accommodate changing preferences and provide the most suited recommendation at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: UNISENSE TECH, INC.
    Inventors: Bharat Vijay, Anand Ramani, Rohit Jain, K. N. Amarnath, Karpagam Gobalakrishna, Amar K Ray
  • Patent number: 9871768
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to enabling communications between IPv4 and IPv6 hosts using a communication channel in a trusted security zone associated with a first host to determine the IP-versions and/or other security features that may be present or enabled on the first host or the second host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Spring Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9769854
    Abstract: A method for providing a trusted communication link in a wireless network. A mobility management entity (MME) interface of a MME virtualized network function (VNF) receives a trusted communication request. A MME interface trustlet is allocated to execute in a trusted security zone of compute resources provided by a virtual computing environment in which the MME VNF executes. The MME interface trustlet establishes trusted signaling with two or more different VNFs provided by virtual servers executing in the virtual computing environment. The MME interface trustlet sends a trust token to the eNB to establish the trusted communication link from the eNB via a virtualized network function path through the virtual computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9686240
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to enabling communications between IPv4 and IPv6 hosts using a communication channel in a trusted security zone associated with a first host to determine the IP-versions and/or other security features that may be present or enabled on the first host or the second host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9578664
    Abstract: A method for providing a trusted communication link in a wireless network. A mobility management entity (MME) interface of a MME virtualized network function (VNF) receives a trusted communication request. A MME interface trustlet is allocated to execute in a trusted security zone of compute resources provided by a virtual computing environment in which the MME VNF executes. The MME interface trustlet establishes trusted signaling with two or more different VNFs provided by virtual servers executing in the virtual computing environment. The MME interface trustlet sends a trust token to the eNB to establish the trusted communication link from the eNB via a virtualized network function path through the virtual computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Lyle W. Paczkowski, Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9491307
    Abstract: A system and method for assisting with calls to public safety answering points may include receiving emergency message data from a user, and, in response to receiving an emergency call request from the user at a telecommunications device, communicating the emergency message data in an audio format to a PSAP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, John M. Heinz
  • Patent number: 9456427
    Abstract: The invention is directed to the optimization of power to increase a coverage area between a mobile device and the wireless communications network. Once it is determined that coverage is to be increased, a scheduling request is communicated to an access component (e.g., base station, eNodeB). The access component then sends a scheduling grant to the mobile device indicating that coverage will be increased. The determination to increase coverage is based on a total time delay of a packet sent from one device to another device, and a quality of the current voice or data session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Warren B. Cope
  • Patent number: 9451051
    Abstract: A system for improving performance of an interactive augmented reality application over a wireless network. The system comprises at least one client side gateway configured to establish and adjust timing and synchronization with a client application based on measurements and predicted performance of a network between the client application and the client side gateway before a predefined period of time expires, transmit timing and synchronization decision to the controller, execute server side application programming interfaces determined by the controller based on the network quality measurements and the predicted network performance, and transmit execution results of the server side application programming interfaces to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, James P. Sisul
  • Patent number: 9179280
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point may include receiving, at a network access point, an emergency 911 call signal including GPS location information and mobile directory number of a wireless device. The GPS location information and mobile directory information may be communicated to a selective muter associated with a public safety access point servicing an area including the network access point. The network access point may be a WiFi access point. The access point address information may be communicated using a type II caller ID data packet after the public safety answering point goes off-hook By communicating both the access point address information and GPS location information, both PSAPs that are configured as E911 Phase I and E911 Phase II may display address location information of an emergency 911 caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Cadathur V. Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 9167080
    Abstract: A system and method for distributing remote location information to callers who place calls to the remote locations may include storing information at a central computing system. The information may be associated with locations in multiple different time zones and include telephone number identifiers and local times associated with the different respective telephone number identifiers. The information may be distributed to communications network nodes in different time zones. Telephone calls may be processed from callers local to the communications network nodes. In response to receiving a call request at a communications network node from a local caller, a determination by the communications network node using a portion of a called telephone number may be made to determine current time local to the called telephone. The current time local may be communicated to the caller prior to connecting the call with a communications device associated with the called telephone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Amar N. Ray
  • Patent number: 9042370
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for determining a communications path to assign a communications over a packet network. For example, in one embodiment, the method includes determining at least two potential communications paths over a packet network over which a received communications request may be established by accessing network performance information associated with each node segment on the respective at least two potential communications paths. In one embodiment, the network performance information associated with each node segment includes a first set of network performance information for communicating in a first direction on the node segment and a second set of network performance information for communicating in a second direction on the node segment. The method determines a value indicative of communications operations associated with each potential communications path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Morrill, Carl M. Coppage, Amar N. Ray, William L. Wiley
  • Patent number: 9031207
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating location information of a VoIP subscriber to a public-safety answering point may include receiving an E-911 telephone call from a VoIP telephone. Location information associated with the VoIP telephone stored in a database may be requested. The location information may be received in a signal formatted substantially the same as a signal format for communicating caller identification information. The location information may be displayed at a public-safety answering point. In one embodiment, the location information may be displayed on a video display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Cadathur V. Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 9025734
    Abstract: A system and method for routing an emergency data message to a PSAP may include receiving an emergency data message and cell code identifier indicative of a location of a wireless communications device of a user. A PSAP local to the user may be selected, and the emergency data message is sent to the selected PSAP. The location may be a centralized network location associated with an emergency network address, where the emergency network address is an easy address for users to remember.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Carl M. Coppage, Lynn T. Greene, Robert J. Morrill
  • Patent number: 8982871
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point from a softphone may include receiving, at a network access point, an emergency 911 call from the softphone. The emergency 911 call may be communicated to a public safety answering point. In response to a call connection message being received, an address location of the network access point to which the softphone is in communication in placing the emergency 911 call to the public safety answering point may be communicated in a type II caller ID data packet. The softphone may generate the type II caller ID data packet with the address location in a data field, such as a data field typically used for name information of a caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Cadathur V. Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 8964945
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point may include registering network access points with a gateway. The registration may include address location of each network access point to enable the gateway to look-up and communicate the address location of a registered network access point during an emergency 911 call. The network access points may be WiFi access points. The network access point address location information may be communicated using a type II caller ID data packets after the public safety answering point goes off-hook. By communicating both the access point address information and GPS location information, PSAPs that are configured as E911 Phase I and E911 Phase II may display address information of an emergency 911 caller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Amar N. Ray
  • Patent number: 8831583
    Abstract: A multimode handset and method that includes a first communications path adapted to communicate using a mobile telephone communications protocol, a second communications path adapted to communicate using a local cordless communications protocol, and a processing unit in communication with the first communications path and the second communications paths and configured to switch between the first communications path and the second communications path during a telephone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Cadathur V. Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 8824999
    Abstract: A system and method for registering the contact information of mobile devices with a service 911 service is presented. In one embodiment, a mobile switching center receives the contact information of a mobile device. If the mobile switching center determines that the mobile device is not located within a particular wireless sub-network, such as, but not limited to, a wireless sub-network associated with an area code registered to the mobile device, the mobile switching center generates a reverse 911 registration text message and transmits the reverse 911 registration text message to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device may then transmit the reverse 911 registration text message to a local reverse 911 database to have the contact information associated with the mobile device added to the local reverse 911 database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Amar N. Ray, Cadathur V. Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 8767930
    Abstract: A network interface device may include an I/O unit configured to receive data packets from a packet network. A processing unit may be in communication with the I/O unit and be configured to identify data packets including data representative of DTMF signals, convert the data in the data packets into analog DTMF tone signals, and determine if power of the analog DTMF tone signals is below a threshold value. A digital to analog converter may be in communication with the processing unit and be configured to generate the analog DTMF tone signals based on the data in the data packets. A DTMF amplifier may be in communication with the processing unit and the digital to analog converter, where the processing unit may cause the DTMF amplifier to amplify the power of the analog DTMF tone signals in response to determining that the power of the analog DTMF tone signals are below the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventor: Amar N. Ray
  • Patent number: 8712366
    Abstract: A system and method for routing emergency data messages to public safety answering points may include identifying PSAPs local to the user and configured to receive emergency data messages. A determination of distribution of previous emergency data messages to the identified PSAPs may be performed. Based on the distribution of previous emergency data messages to the identified PSAPs, one of the identified PSAPs may be selected and the emergency data message may be routed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Lynn T. Greene, Amar N. Ray, Robert J. Morrill
  • Publication number: 20140071977
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for determining a communications path to assign a communications over a packet network. For example, in one embodiment, the method includes determining at least two potential communications paths over a packet network over which a received communications request may be established by accessing network performance information associated with each node segment on the respective at least two potential communications paths. In one embodiment, the network performance information associated with each node segment includes a first set of network performance information for communicating in a first direction on the node segment and a second set of network performance information for communicating in a second direction on the node segment. The method determines a value indicative of communications operations associated with each potential communications path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Morrill, Carl M. Coppage, Amar N. Ray, William L. Wiley