Patents by Inventor David S. Benco

David S. Benco 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: 9439048
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing mobile-to-mobile video capability to a network. More particularly, this development is directed to a system that facilitates the transmission of video data from one mobile station (e.g. wireless phone) to another mobile station (e.g. another wireless phone). It also provides user control of the transmission to accommodate the preferences of the called party relative to receipt of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: David S. Benco
  • Patent number: 9307519
    Abstract: A method is provided for paging a mobile station (40) served by a wireless telecommunications network (A). The method includes: remembering a last known location of the mobile station (40), and implementing a first paging strategy for the mobile station (40) within a first collection of cells (32) served by a first mobile switching center (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: John C. Nguyen, David S. Benco, Paresh Kanabar
  • Patent number: 9160795
    Abstract: A method in one example, the method comprising receiving content at a computing server that resides at a first site, where the content is to be synchronized with at least one other site. The method further comprises storing the content to be synchronized in a homing tag, and communicating the homing tag to the at least one other site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Pirawan Wong
  • Patent number: 8897211
    Abstract: A system for providing service-specific support for multimedia traffic in a telecommunications system comprises a subscriber terminal, a base station operatively coupled to the subscriber terminal, a mobile switching center (MSC) operatively coupled to the base station, a media gateway control function (MGCF) and a media gateway (MGW), each coupled to the MSC. The subscriber terminal is adapted to generate multimedia traffic of at least one service category, wherein the multimedia traffic may be any of several distinct types defined within the service category. The subscriber terminal is further adapted to identify, when establishing a connection to the MSC to carry multimedia traffic, the type of that traffic in a connection request message. The MSC is adapted to further identify, when establishing a connection between the MSC and the MGCF/MGW to carry multimedia traffic, the type of that traffic in a message, responsive to the identification of the traffic type in the connection request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Kevin J. Overend, Baoling S. Sheen, Sandra L. True, Kenneth J. Voight
  • Patent number: 8874076
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has: first user equipment having a first set of personal information for use in a community based network, and a second set of personal information for use in a public network; second user equipment having a first set of personal information for use in the community based network, and a second set of personal information for use in the public network; a trusted presence system in an IMS network operatively coupled to the first and second user equipment; and the trusted presence system being structured such that, when the first user equipment is in the community based network places a call to the second user equipment in the public network, the second set of personal information of the second user equipment is withheld from the first user equipment at least during call setup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Mark A. Ristich
  • Patent number: 8787355
    Abstract: A cross domain server is configured to receive calls to at least one predetermined phone number. The cross domain server is a member of a packet-switched network. The cross domain server receives a call setup message for a call from a subscriber outside of the packet-switched network. The cross domain server performs an action in the packet-switched network on behalf of the subscriber and based on the call. The call is disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Mark A. Ristich
  • Patent number: 8775816
    Abstract: Existing video surveillance security approaches enhanced with suitable functionality of the telecommunications wireless network are provided. Security personnel are equipped with hand-held devices capable of recording video, photos, audio, and text. This data is geo-tagged and time-stamped by the application and uploaded to the telecommunications network and stored in the network. As such, the geo-tagged, time-stamped information is immediately available to other investigators who are in the same geographic vicinity through access controls administered by a secure social network. The information may also be accessible from remote locations via the internet. All wireless and Internet communications may be protected using end-to-end secure transport layer communications protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: José de Francisco Lopez, David S. Benco, Catriona M. Saunders
  • Patent number: 8756107
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has: virtual world having at least one object; vendor template database having at least one product template; vendor template server operatively coupled to the vendor template database and to the virtual world; and at least one profile that contains at least one descriptive characteristic of one of an avatar and an object, the at least one profile stored in at least one of the virtual world and the vendor template database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Mark A. Ristich
  • Patent number: 8504635
    Abstract: A system comprising a first network element, a second network element and a communication device. The first network element is communicatively coupled to the second network element and the communication device. The communication device sends multimedia session information to the first network element. The first network element analyzes the multimedia session information for urgent emergency circumstances. The first network element forwards the multimedia session information to a destination on the second network element if urgent emergency circumstances are found in the multimedia session information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Michael J. Hawley, Anne Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 8428624
    Abstract: A method in one application of maintaining a paging status associated with a communication device. The method also comprises paging the communication device based on the paging status. A system in one application comprising a communications controller configured to store a paging status that is associated with a communication device. The system further comprising a communications manager communicatively coupled to the communications controller. Also, at least one data store is communicatively coupled to the communications controller. The communications controller pages a communication device based on a paging status. The paging status is stored in one of the at least one data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Paresh Kanabar, John C. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 8412171
    Abstract: Telecommunication networks and methods are disclosed for providing a group session service for a plurality of participants. An application server in the telecommunication network receives a plurality of real-time media streams from the participants of the group session, and identifies voice media in the individual media streams. The voice media represents the spoken voice of the participants, and includes talking intervals separated by idle intervals (i.e., pauses in the spoken voice). The application server inputs the talking intervals as audio media elements into an audio media queue in the order received, and also outputs the audio media elements from the audio media queue in the order in which the audio media elements were inputted (i.e., in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) fashion) to generate a collective media stream for the group session. The collected audio stream is then provided to the participants of the group session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Anjana Agarwal, David S. Benco, Byron J. Williams
  • Patent number: 8374632
    Abstract: A method for providing geo-location enablement for a wireless device includes storing geo-location data in a storage device, the geo-location data including geo-location coordinates; referencing geo-location data for geo-location coordinates to corresponding wireless coverage area data, the wireless coverage area data for each geo-location coordinate including wireless coverage area coordinates, each wireless coordinate; representing a sub-area within a coverage area of a wireless network, each sub-area generally formed by an RF signaling range for a wireless access point; and referencing each wireless coordinate to corresponding signal strength data, the signal strength data for each wireless coordinate representing a signal strength value. Each signal strength value representing a signal strength parameter associated with the corresponding wireless coordinate. The wireless coverage area data and signal strength data being stored in the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Mark A. Ristich, David S. Benco
  • Publication number: 20120307989
    Abstract: A multimedia call capability is disclosed. The multimedia call capability supports establishment of a data session in conjunction with a call, the data session being established between a user device and a multimedia answering point. The call may be directed to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) and/or a private answering point. The multimedia call capability enables dynamic routing of call signaling of the user device to the answering point based on whether the user device includes a media content capture capability (e.g., a still camera, a video camera, and the like). The data session is configured to support propagation of media content from the user device to the answering point in conjunction with the call. The media content may include photographs, video, and the like, as well as various combinations thereof. The media content may be provided before, during, and/or after voice communications between the user of the user device and the operator at the answering point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Michael J. Hawley, David S. Benco
  • Publication number: 20120290468
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for completing a payment transaction using a network-connectable device is disclosed. When a payer initiates a payment transaction to a vendor using the network connectable device, a unique identifier and current geolocation of the network-connectable device are sent to a payment server together with a server payment transaction message containing information about the payment transaction. The payment server compares the geolocation with the vendor location and one or more predetermined locations associated with the payer, for example, a home or workplace. Upon a successful comparison, the payment retrieves a third party payment record from a mapping database and uses it to complete the payment transaction with a third party payment processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Jose de Francisco Lopez
  • Patent number: 8289921
    Abstract: A method of receiving a first InitialIN message, determining if the first InitialIN message is a mobile origination, determining if an mscAddress comprising the first InitialIN message is an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) MSC address, and establishing DMS IN services with an SCF/SCP and performing VCC anchoring for a DMS communication session with a VCC SCF/SCP if the InitialIN is a mobile origination and if the mscAddress is an IMS MSC address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Mark A. Ristich
  • Patent number: 8249934
    Abstract: IMS networks and methods are disclosed for providing purchasing sessions to mobile devices that are located proximate to a business. IMS network includes an application server that provides advertisements for the business to mobile devices that are located proximate to the business (i.e., the advertisements are pushed to the mobile devices). Responsive to an advertisement, the user of a mobile device may contact the application server through the mobile device to purchase one or more items from the business. The application server responds to the mobile device with receipt information for the purchase. The user may then request delivery of the purchased item through the mobile device by transmitting some or all of the receipt information to the application server. The application server may then schedule delivery of the item to the user of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Anjana Agarwal, David S. Benco, Byron J. Williams
  • Publication number: 20120210244
    Abstract: A cross-domain privacy management service for social networking sites is implemented in a communication system including a user platform operably connected to an application platform. The application platform accesses one or more social networking sites on behalf of a user to obtain indicia of privacy settings of the user and displays the privacy settings via a graphical user interface accessible to the user independent of the social networking sites. The user may interact with graphical icons via the graphical user interface to change privacy settings of one or more impacted sites, and the user changes are communicated to the social networking sites via the application platform on behalf of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: José de Francisco Lopez, David S. Benco
  • Publication number: 20120183230
    Abstract: Existing video surveillance security approaches enhanced with suitable functionality of the telecommunications wireless network are provided. Security personnel are equipped with hand-held devices capable of recording video, photos, audio, and text. This data is geo-tagged and time-stamped by the application and uploaded to the telecommunications network and stored in the network. As such, the geo-tagged, time-stamped information is immediately available to other investigators who are in the same geographic vicinity through access controls administered by a secure social network. The information may also be accessible from remote locations via the internet. All wireless and Internet communications may be protected using end-to-end secure transport layer communications protocols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Jose de Francisco Lopez, David S. Benco, Catriona M. Saunders
  • Patent number: 8219144
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has: a predetermined location having at least a wireless communication device, the wireless communication device having a predetermined coverage area; a mobile terminal that communicates with the wireless communication device when the mobile terminal is within the predetermined coverage area; the mobile terminal having a camera and a functionality that selectively disables and enables the camera; and the wireless communication device having a functionality that causes the mobile terminal to disable the camera when the mobile terminal is within the predetermined coverage area, and wherein the mobile terminal effects an enabling of the camera when the mobile terminal leaves the predetermined coverage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Sanjeev Mahajan, Baoling S. Sheen, Sandra L. True
  • Patent number: 8200268
    Abstract: An apparatus in one example has: an intercom system; a wireless push-to-talk system; and an integrated intercom/push-to-talk system operatively coupled to the intercom system and the wireless push-to-talk system, the integrated intercom/push-to-talk system functioning as a wireless terminal that communicates with the wireless push-to-talk system, and functioning as an intercom unit in the intercom system. Embodiments support an integration of, for example, a home intercom system with, for example, a commercially available wireless push-to-talk service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David S. Benco, Kevin J. Overend, Baoling S. Sheen, Sandra L. True, Kenneth J. Voight