Patents by Inventor Brandon B. Hilliard
Brandon B. Hilliard 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).
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Patent number: 11637834Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Publication number: 20220248093Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing first monitoring information associated with an audience that is viewing a presentation, determining an actual audience engagement level by performing pattern recognition on the first monitoring information, comparing the actual audience engagement level with an expected audience engagement level to generate an engagement score for the presentation, and transmitting, to a device, a haptic feedback according to the engagement score during the presenting of the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 11336959Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing first monitoring information associated with an audience that is viewing a presentation, determining an actual audience engagement level by performing pattern recognition on the first monitoring information, comparing the actual audience engagement level with an expected audience engagement level to generate an engagement score for the presentation, and transmitting, to a device, a haptic feedback according to the engagement score during the presenting of the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Publication number: 20220078192Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 11212289Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 11206614Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method, for determining power requirements according to a data connection with a remote server that provides services to support execution of a remote application that corresponds to a local application that executes on the mobile device. The power requirements are compared to a remaining charge of a battery of the mobile device to obtain a comparison, and the remote application, in lieu of the local application that executes on the mobile device according to the comparison. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill, Ivan Rasnik, Radhika Gouni
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Publication number: 20210352577Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to permit equipment of a subscriber of a mobile service provider that provides a subscribed service via a licensed frequency spectrum to access the subscribed service via a wireless access terminal according to an unlicensed frequency spectrum. A radio adapted to provide access to the subscribed service via the licensed frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the wireless access terminal resides within a coverage area of the identified radio. A current utilization of the identified radio is determined and a response to the request is generated according to the current utilization of the identified radio, wherein access to the subscribed service via the wireless access terminal is conditional according to the response to the request, resulting in conditional access. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, Zachary Meredith
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Patent number: 11101036Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for relaying information from a cardiac pacemaker to an external device. Logic on the pacemaker modulates a heartbeat clock of the pacemaker to encode information onto a blood pressure sequence by adding or subtracting a small subinterval to or from a pulse repetition interval of the pacemaker. A muscle stimulator beats the heart according to the modulated sequence. A monitoring device external to the body monitors the blood pressure to retrieve the encoded information, or message. The encoded information is then decoded to determine the information in the message. This information may concern the pacemaker as well as other devices within the body that communicate with the pacemaker such as blood monitors, etc. Since the message is conveyed via simple modulation of the heart beat intervals, no separate transmitter is required in the pacemaker which would otherwise increase cost and decrease battery life.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, Mario Kosseifi
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Patent number: 11102713Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to permit equipment of a subscriber of a mobile service provider that provides a subscribed service via a licensed frequency spectrum to access the subscribed service via a wireless access terminal according to an unlicensed frequency spectrum. A radio adapted to provide access to the subscribed service via the licensed frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the wireless access terminal resides within a coverage area of the identified radio. A current utilization of the identified radio is determined and a response to the request is generated according to the current utilization of the identified radio, wherein access to the subscribed service via the wireless access terminal is conditional according to the response to the request, resulting in conditional access. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, Zachary Meredith
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Publication number: 20210112488Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request to permit equipment of a subscriber of a mobile service provider that provides a subscribed service via a licensed frequency spectrum to access the subscribed service via a wireless access terminal according to an unlicensed frequency spectrum. A radio adapted to provide access to the subscribed service via the licensed frequency spectrum is identified, wherein the wireless access terminal resides within a coverage area of the identified radio. A current utilization of the identified radio is determined and a response to the request is generated according to the current utilization of the identified radio, wherein access to the subscribed service via the wireless access terminal is conditional according to the response to the request, resulting in conditional access. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, Zachary Meredith
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Publication number: 20210014232Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 10826907Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Publication number: 20200296464Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing first monitoring information associated with an audience that is viewing a presentation, determining an actual audience engagement level by performing pattern recognition on the first monitoring information, comparing the actual audience engagement level with an expected audience engagement level to generate an engagement score for the presentation, and transmitting, to a device, a haptic feedback according to the engagement score during the presenting of the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 10768782Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detect a first user interaction with a control button, disable an initiation of an action for a communication service, detect a second user interaction with the icon, and transmit an identification signal to a second communication device that causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the action for the communication service. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill
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Patent number: 10747683Abstract: Example devices are disclosed. For example, a device may include a processor, a plurality of translation lookaside buffers, a plurality of switches, and a memory management unit. Each of the translation lookaside buffers may be assigned to a different process of the processor, each of the plurality of switches may include a register for storing a different process identifier, and each of the plurality of switches may be associated with a different one of the translation lookaside buffer buffers. The memory management unit may be for receiving a virtual memory address and a process identifier from the processor and forwarding the process identifier to the plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of switches may be for connecting the memory management unit to a translation associated with the switch when there is a match between the process identifier and the different process identifier stored by the register of the switch.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill
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Patent number: 10708659Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing first monitoring information associated with an audience that is viewing a presentation, determining an actual audience engagement level by performing pattern recognition on the first monitoring information, comparing the actual audience engagement level with an expected audience engagement level to generate an engagement score for the presentation, and transmitting, to a device, a haptic feedback according to the engagement score during the presenting of the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William C. Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 10660019Abstract: An example device for processing a query for a physical asset includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a query for a physical asset from a requesting device, determining a near field communication node that detects the physical asset, and providing to the requesting device an identification of a communication device that is associated with the near field communication node in response to the query.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 10493224Abstract: A system for improving an artificial respirator is disclosed. In particular, the system may be utilized to improve the quality of life of a user that utilizes an artificial respirator and to improve the quality of life of a caregiver of the user. In order to do so, the system may include an apparatus that suspends or activates one or more functions of the artificial respirator based on various conditions. As an example, if the system detects a threshold change in tension associated with a band supporting a respiration mask positioned on the user, the system may suspend a function of the artificial respirator. Similarly, if the system detects a temperature reading outside a temperature range, detects a unique sequence of inputs, detects a threshold distance between the user and the respiration mask, or detects other conditions, the system may suspend a function of the artificial respirator.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sheldon K. Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Patent number: 10484873Abstract: A method is disclosed for blocking a cloned mobile device by a processor of a network. The processor receives a first registration from a first mobile device at a first location. The first registration includes a device identifier and a phone number. The processor then confirms that a second registration from a second mobile device at a second location includes the device identifier and the phone number and calculates a first fraud score for the first mobile device and a second fraud score for the second mobile device. The processor then determines that the second mobile device is the cloned mobile device, when the second fraud score exceeds the first score, and blocks the cloned mobile device from registering on the network.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II, LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
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Publication number: 20190320391Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method, for determining power requirements according to a data connection with a remote server that provides services to support execution of a remote application that corresponds to a local application that executes on the mobile device. The power requirements are compared to a remaining charge of a battery of the mobile device to obtain a comparison, and the remote application, in lieu of the local application that executes on the mobile device according to the comparison. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill, Ivan Rasnik, Radhika Gouni