Patents by Inventor Cuong T. Ly

Cuong T. Ly 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).

  • Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers
    Patent number: 10701422
    Abstract: A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Luan Le-Chau, Cuong T Ly, Raynold M. Kahn, Ranny Q. Sue, Kapil Chaudhry, Joel M. Pamplona
  • Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers
    Patent number: 10264304
    Abstract: A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Luan Le-Chau, Cuong T Ly, Raynold M. Kahn, Ranny Q. Sue, Kapil Chaudhry, Joel M. Pamplona
  • Systems and methods for provisioning multi-dimensional rule based entitlement offers
    Patent number: 9467726
    Abstract: A method of provisioning entitlement including: receiving within a headend and at a policy management module first conditions and rules for content from a service provider or a third party device; and generating, for a point of presence (POP) device of a customer, a policy for entitlement and usage of content (merged policy). The generating of the merged policy includes: merging conditions and rules of policies including the first conditions and rules to generate the merged policy based on a predetermined hierarchy of the policies. Rules and conditions of the merged policy are multi-dimensional to include customer, POP device, and provider dimensions; and generating a configuration file including conditions or condition based parameters. The method further includes: presenting an offer for the content to the customer via the POP device; receiving an acceptance of the offer from the POP device; and enforcing the merged policy according to the configuration file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Luan Le-Chau, Cuong T. Ly, Raynold M. Kahn, Ranny Q. Sue, Kapil Chaudhry, Joel M. Pamplona