Patents by Inventor Derek Baylor

Derek Baylor 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: 20240146839
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, facilitating communication sessions such as voice calls over a plurality of radios of the wireless PBX via one or more carriers, where the wireless PBX includes a plurality of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) and a plurality of radios, wherein there are a maximum number of concurrent communication sessions permitted that are fewer than a number of the plurality of SIMs; determining that the maximum number of concurrent communication sessions has been reached; and responsive to reaching the maximum number of concurrent communication sessions, facilitating establishing an outgoing voice call via a WiFi connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Karen Stansbury, Howard Lang, Derek Baylor
  • Patent number: 11889020
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, over a network, a call originating from a call originator and intended for a user of a user equipment, responsive to the detecting the call, determining whether to challenge the call originator, based on a determination to challenge the call originator, transmitting a request to the call originator, wherein the request prompts the call originator to specify an identity of the call originator and a purpose for the call, obtaining information from a call originator input responsive to the transmitting the request, deriving enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data that includes the information, and causing the enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data to be provided to the user equipment, thereby enabling the user of the user equipment to determine whether to answer the call. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Vimal Patel, Howard Lang, Karen Stansbury, Derek Baylor, James Ibezim, Nalini Humphrey, Robert Stokey, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230075625
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, over a network, a call originating from a call originator and intended for a user of a user equipment, responsive to the detecting the call, determining whether to challenge the call originator, based on a determination to challenge the call originator, transmitting a request to the call originator, wherein the request prompts the call originator to specify an identity of the call originator and a purpose for the call, obtaining information from a call originator input responsive to the transmitting the request, deriving enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data that includes the information, and causing the enhanced Caller Name or Caller ID data to be provided to the user equipment, thereby enabling the user of the user equipment to determine whether to answer the call. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Vimal Patel, Howard Lang, Karen Stansbury, Derek Baylor, James Ibezim, Nalini Humphrey, Robert Stokey, JR.
  • Patent number: 10667125
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a mobile device, a request to register with a mobility network, the mobile device including a partially-activated subscriber identification module (SIM); determining that the partially-activated SIM qualifies for on-device activation; in response to determining that the partially-activated SIM qualifies for on-device activation, providing a short message service (SMS) message to the mobile device through the mobility network, the SMS message including a uniform resource locator (URL); in response to activation of the URL, providing, to the mobile device, access to an activation portal web page associated with the URL, wherein SIM data and device data are automatically provided to the activation portal web page; and receiving, from the mobile device, activation data, and in response, activating the SIM and provisioning the mobile device within the mobility network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, L.P., CRICKET WIRELESS LLC, AT&T MOBILTY II LLC
    Inventors: Tina Steeley, Dennis Duffy, Vadim Nerovnia, Kenneth Hughes, Andre Lakhansingh, Derek Baylor, Umair Rabbani, Jacqueline Levy Johnson, Chris Denton Morris, Elizabeth Petronella Grimbergen