Patents by Inventor Charles M. Link, II

Charles M. Link, II 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).

  • Publication number: 20180314314
    Abstract: A wireless mobile device (“UE”) operating in a battery-conserving low-power state processes incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the message by enabling additional processing capability in the UE. A server may generate awaken information derived from a stored secret value that only the UE device and a server that manages the UE can obtain. The awaken information may also be based on a shared value shared between the server and the UE. The UE may separately derive the awaken information and may exit a low power state when awaken information received from the server in an awaken message in a first protocol matches the separately derived awaken information. The server may transmit a fall-back second awaken message in a different protocol than the first protocol if no confirmation is received that the UE received the first awaken message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 10013828
    Abstract: A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: M2MD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20180108194
    Abstract: A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20180074575
    Abstract: A wireless mobile device in a public communication network receives network-initiated signaling or messaging, while operating in a battery-conserving mode, or modes that, keep(s) minimal baseband processing functions awake. The baseband processing functions process incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the incoming message by enabling additional processing capability in the mobile device. The mobile device may have permanent template criteria values, either coded in firmware or implemented in hardware, or temporary template criteria values, stored in RAM or processor registers, that are compared to values of an incoming message or datagram from the mobile network to determine whether to perform additional actions, such as awakening an application processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9865110
    Abstract: A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: M2MD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170332274
    Abstract: A network platform manages the provisioning of a UE with a dominant identity profile and a recessive identity profile. The dominant profile is associated with a user's existing wireless data plan and the recessive profile corresponds to a data plan of a provider of device, or machine-to-machine, services to the UE. The UE uses the two profiles to transmit separate data contexts on separate respective bearers. When managing two separate bearers, the UE always uses the dominant profile first for managing a handoff to a stronger cell. The UE reports that the new cell that now serves the dominant context is the only cell that has enough strength to support the recessive context, even if other cells near the UE have signals strong enough. This necessarily causes the recessive context to always be handed off to the same cell to which the dominant context has already been handed off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170332273
    Abstract: A platform in a wireless public land mobile network environment associates a mobile device's unique identifier with a provider of services to the mobile device as well as with the device's anchor network. When the mobile device wirelessly accesses services from a local wireless network while roaming outside of its anchor network's wireless coverage via an APN of the local network, the platform receives electronic data session transaction information records from the local network and replaces the mobile device's unique identifier with a pseudo/replacement unique device identifier that is associated in the platform with the local network and returns the transaction record to the local network instead of to the anchor network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170300203
    Abstract: Modular auxiliary processor circuitry, capable of performing telematics services, including wireless communications, diagnostic assessment and reporting, location based services, and internetworking, couples with a vehicle head unit through an auxiliary processing module interface. When so coupled, the auxiliary processing module circuitry can perform tasks, services, functions, and aspect that a lower-capability processor of the head unit cannot perform as quickly or as efficiently, if at all. When the auxiliary processor module is coupled and active, its display output can couple to a display device either permanently fixed in the vehicle, or portable and mobile with respect to the vehicle, through conductors or a wireless link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9792005
    Abstract: Modular auxiliary processor circuitry, capable of performing telematics services, including wireless communications, diagnostic assessment and reporting, location based services, and internetworking, couples with a vehicle head unit through an auxiliary processing module interface. When so coupled, the auxiliary processing module circuitry can perform tasks, services, functions, and aspect that a lower-capability processor of the head unit cannot perform as quickly or as efficiently, if at all. When the auxiliary processor module is coupled and active, its display output can couple to a display device either permanently fixed in the vehicle, or portable and mobile with respect to the vehicle, through conductors or a wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Telematics Inc.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170272945
    Abstract: Pre Shared Keys (“PSK”) for application and data session security are generated using application authentication secret values stored in a SIM device/card. The SIM internally uses the secret values as inputs to a security algorithm engine, but the secret values are not accessible outside of the SIM. The application authentication secret values cannot be used to authenticate the SIM, or a device that includes the SIM, to a communication network. Rather, symmetric keys and keying material are generated for use by applications outside of the standard and conventional wireless networking uses of a SIM device. Updated PSKs are generated at different network endpoints such that the PSKs are generated individually and separately at the endpoints; the ‘preshared’ keys are not actually shared. Thus, a client endpoint and a server endpoint, or an endpoint associated with the server, independently generate the same PSK without the PSK being transmitted between the endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170272944
    Abstract: Pre Shared Keys (“PSK”) for application and data session security are generated using application authentication secret values stored in a SIM device/card. The SIM internally uses the secret values as inputs to a security algorithm engine, but the secret values are not accessible outside of the SIM. The application authentication secret values cannot be used to authenticate the SIM, or a device that includes the SIM, to a communication network. Rather, symmetric keys and keying material are generated for use by applications outside of the standard and conventional wireless networking uses of a SIM device. Updated PSKs are generated at different network endpoints such that the PSKs are generated individually and separately at the endpoints; the ‘preshared’ keys are not actually shared. Thus, a client endpoint and a server endpoint, or an endpoint associated with the server, independently generate the same PSK without the PSK being transmitted between the endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9652461
    Abstract: A targeted area audio distribution system for Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services Receivers (“SDARS”) provides specific content to listeners based on location. A service provider can facilitate delivery of local content using a telematics device installed in the listener's vehicle. The telematics device uses a content database indexed on an identifier formed from coordinates of a desired geographical area to target particular content for users in a targeted area as small as a few blocks. In addition, interstate drivers can receive location specific advertisements for exits that they may be approaching. Digital audio content can be queued up for insertion into the audio stream based on specific locations. The identifier can also be used to report vehicle performance information from a plurality of vehicles to facilitate providing real-time traffic conditions for many traffic corridors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Telematics Inc.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170011572
    Abstract: A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20170006034
    Abstract: A device of a public communication network initiates an action at a destination UE device of a private communication network by transmitting an action request message to a translating device that has a network/logical connection to both networks. The action request message contains security credentials of the initiating device, but does not contain a network address of the destination UE device. The translating device uses the security credentials of the initiating device contained in the action request message to determine a network address of the private network corresponding to the desired destination UE device. The security credentials may also be used to establish a secure connection from the initiating device. The translating device forwards the action request message to the desired destination device at the address associated with the initiator-device security credentials that it received in the action request message. The translating device may be a publish-subscribe broker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20160344747
    Abstract: A vehicle processing device authenticates that an authorized user has requested an action by the vehicle, and generates an authentication acknowledgement message. At least two security devices being present within the cabin of, or close to, the vehicle during a predetermined period following an authentication trigger event that occurs while the user performs a predetermined sequence of authentication activities (i.e., button presses, operating the vehicle or a part of it, etc.) provides a basis for the authentication acknowledgement message. Typically, information unique to each security device has been associated with the vehicle at a service provider's server. The authentication acknowledgement may include an activation code that results from processing the information, unique to each security device, received from the security devices and other random information, such as date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: M2MD Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9395186
    Abstract: Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for telematics navigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON TELEMATICS INC.
    Inventors: Charles M. Link, II, Kevin W Link, Paul Kirsch, Marc Gordan
  • Patent number: 9386400
    Abstract: A detector, positioned at a first geographic location, receives a message from a mobile device that is sent without a request from the detector and via a short-range communications protocol, such as Bluetooth® or other WPAN. The detector parses the message to obtain data associated with the mobile device, such as extracting a media access control (MAC) address, a device type, or other information from the message. The detector may further identify an attribute, such as a signal power loss or frequency, associated with the received message. A second geographic location, associated with the mobile device, may be determined based on the attribute. The detector may also identify an associated user based on the data associated with the mobile device. The local device may receive data identifying, for example, the user, the second geographic location, or preference data related to user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Publication number: 20160127856
    Abstract: A detector, positioned at a first geographic location, receives a message from a mobile device that is sent without a request from the detector and via a short-range communications protocol, such as Bluetooth® or other WPAN. The detector parses the message to obtain data associated with the mobile device, such as extracting a media access control (MAC) address, a device type, or other information from the message. The detector may further identify an attribute, such as a signal power loss or frequency, associated with the received message. A second geographic location, associated with the mobile device, may be determined based on the attribute. The detector may also identify an associated user based on the data associated with the mobile device. The local device may receive data identifying, for example, the user, the second geographic location, or preference data related to user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9224249
    Abstract: A telematics method and system includes, and uses, a telematics device with a controller in communication with a diagnostic system configured to receive diagnostic information from a host vehicle; a position-locating system configured to determine location information of the host vehicle; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit and receive information through a wireless network to and from at least one Internet-accessible website; and, a communication interface including at least a short range wireless interface link. The telematics device may be embodied in an access device, which may include the position-locating system. The access device may be a smartphone, or similar device, that retrieves/transmits diagnostic data/information, and other data/information to/from the vehicle via the short range wireless link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: HTI IP, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Larkin Hill Lowrey, Matthew Banet, Bruce Lightner, Diego Borrego, Alan Wettig, Paul Washicko, Eric C. Berkobin, Charles M. Link, II
  • Patent number: 9123060
    Abstract: A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network are provided. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages is associated with one or more demographic codes, and a demographic code is selected to describe an advertisement preference of a user of a wireless communications device. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Charles M. Link, II, Donald M. Cardina, Vernon Meadows