Patents by Inventor Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr.

Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr. 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).

  • Methods, systems, and products for providing sample content
    Patent number: 9860599
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products provide sample content. One such device includes a processor that receives an electronic programming guide including a listing of available content. The processor also receives an ancillary stream of including samples of content listed in the electronic programming guide. The processor receives a subscriber input that selects a particular content from the electronic programming guide. The processor filters unselected samples of content from the ancillary stream of data to produce a sample of the selected particular content. The processor processes the sample as a video signal, thus producing a preview of the selected particular content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas Steven Huslak, Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr.
  • Methods, systems and computer program products for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to end users
    Patent number: 9350795
    Abstract: Methods for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to consumers including receiving a set of one or more turbo boost triggering criteria associated with a user. A network is monitored for a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria. If the monitoring results in locating a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria, then the network turbo boost service is invoked for the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Huslak, Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr., Sharon E. Carter
  • Methods, systems and computer program products for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to end users
    Patent number: 8239516
    Abstract: Methods for proactively offering a network turbo boost service to consumers including receiving a set of one or more turbo boost triggering criteria associated with a user. A network is monitored for a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria. If the monitoring results in locating a task that meets at least one of the turbo boost triggering criteria, then the network turbo boost service is invoked for the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nicholas S. Huslak, Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr., Sharon E. Carter
  • Post answer telephone call redirection or rerouting
    Patent number: 5432845
    Abstract: Calls made to an 800 service subscriber are routed to the subscriber's primary location via a telephone network switch operating in conjunction with a specially configured adjunct processor. The adjunct processor is arranged to monitor the call even after it is answered by an attendant or other subscriber personnel at the primary location. If the call is to be redirected from the primary location to an alternate location, the adjunct is signaled, typically by a DTMF sequence. The adjunct responds by putting the calling party on hold and by initiating a call to the alternate location on an outgoing trunk of the network switch, in such a way that it emulates or imitates both the routing (call treatment) and billing the characteristics of a call made from the original customer location. Redirection can then be completed in one of three ways: blind transfer, consultation, or conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Margaret A. Burd, Rise J. Frankel, Steven T. Heinsius, Steven F. Knittel, William G. Kuchenbecker, Arnold C. McQuaide, Jr., Margaret H. Redberg, Judith L. Sherman, Michael M. Winseck, Jr.