Patents by Inventor Christopher Robert DeLaTorre

Christopher Robert DeLaTorre 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: 8107923
    Abstract: Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for performing a method of protecting system-provider information stored within a mobile communications device that has one or more communications ports and one or more radios. Illustratively, the method includes receiving a request to access the system-provider information, determining that the request was communicated over the air by way of a wireless telecommunications network that the mobile communications device is authorized to access, which network is accessible by way of the one or more radios; and permitting access to the system-provider information after determining that the request was communicated over the air, such that any request to modify the system-provider information by any of the one or more communications ports is denied, and only the request communicated over the air is allowed to be used to modify the system-provider information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Dale Scott Schempp, Christopher Robert DeLaTorre, Karl William Hammerberg
  • Patent number: 8060060
    Abstract: Systems, products, and methods are disclosed for performing a method of selectively controlling communications through a communications port of a mobile communications device. The system-provider information is useable by the mobile communications device to communicate with a wireless telecommunications network that is designated in the system-provider information. Illustratively, the method includes presenting a user interface on the mobile communications device. The UI exposes an option to enable the communications port to be useable to modify the system-provider information. The mobile communications device can be in a first state that currently prohibits data from being passed through the communications port to the system-provider information. Input is received that is to be used to enable data to be passed through the communications port to the system-provider information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Dale Scott Schempp, Christopher Robert DeLaTorre, Karl William Hammerberg