Patents by Inventor Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
Frederick Kenneth Schmidt 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).
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Patent number: 8893240Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Patent number: 8799260Abstract: Techniques are provided for identifying topics that are unassociated with a dominant URL. A set of keywords associated with a topic is identified. A search log is scanned to identify search queries associated with the set of keywords. The identified search queries are grouped into clusters. Clusters associated with similar URLs are merged to generate an extended seed query string. The extended seed query string is analyzed to determine whether it relates to an existing dominant URL. If the extended seed query string is determined to be unassociated with an existing dominant URL, a web page associated with the topic may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
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Patent number: 8316424Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Publication number: 20120158693Abstract: Techniques are provided for identifying topics that are unassociated with a dominant URL. A set of keywords associated with a topic is identified. A search log is scanned to identify search queries associated with the set of keywords. The identified search queries are grouped into clusters. Clusters associated with similar URLs are merged to generate an extended seed query string. The extended seed query string is analyzed to determine whether it relates to an existing dominant URL. If the extended seed query string is determined to be unassociated with an existing dominant URL, a web page associated with the topic may be generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: YAHOO! INC.Inventors: Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Prabhakar Krishnamurthy, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
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Publication number: 20100299523Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, JR.
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Patent number: 7788709Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Patent number: 7069433Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2001Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Patent number: 6971005Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Publication number: 20030133015Abstract: An arrangement for capturing and transmitting a series of images, as well as associated sound clips, from a wireless digital camera to a network-based server for viewing at a web site by designated individuals. Text and/or audio messages from the viewers can be transmitted through the wireless packet network back to the digital camera, resulting in an interactive, bidirectional communication system between the camera user and the image viewers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2001Publication date: July 17, 2003Inventors: Lawrence David Jackel, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Antony Van der Mude
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Publication number: 20030096621Abstract: A method and system are provided to extract information based on activities of a plurality of mobile users, which involve tracking movement of a plurality of mobile users across one or more wireless networks; identifying a group of mobile users engaged in one or more common location-based activities from the plurality of mobile users based on the tracked movement; and determining one or more group properties associated with the group of mobile users. The method and system may further involve deriving a group condition based on the one or more determined group properties, and providing customized services to at least one mobile user of the group based on the derived group condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2001Publication date: May 22, 2003Inventors: Rittwik Jana, Theodore Johnson, Shanmugavelayutham Muthukrishnan, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
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Patent number: 6501838Abstract: A call-forwarding system can be remotely controlled in a simple and easily understood manner, thereby increasing the usage of call-forwarding. By maintaining a registry of special telephone numbers for a user's telephone and, upon receiving a telephone call from one of the special telephone numbers, the system forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. The call-forwarding system includes a registry of special telephone numbers and a call-forwarding controller which, upon receiving a call from one of the special telephone numbers, forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. In addition, the call-forwarding controller includes a caller-ID application which identifies all incoming telephone calls and passes this information to the controller. The controller then compares the incoming call to the telephone numbers in the registry and, upon obtaining a match, activates a routine for forwarding future incoming calls to the matched telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Ronald J. Brachman, Donnie Henderson, Lawrence David Jackel, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Publication number: 20010040954Abstract: A call-forwarding system can be remotely controlled in a simple and easily understood manner, thereby increasing the usage of call-forwarding. By maintaining a registry of special telephone numbers for a user's telephone and, upon receiving a telephone call from one of the special telephone numbers, the system forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. The call-forwarding system includes a registry of special telephone numbers and a call-forwarding controller which, upon receiving a call from one of the special telephone numbers, forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. In addition, the call-forwarding controller includes a caller-ID application which identifies all incoming telephone calls and passes this information to the controller. The controller then compares the incoming call to the telephone numbers in the registry and, upon obtaining a match, activates a routine for forwarding future incoming calls to the matched telephone number.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: Ronald J. Brachman, Donnie Henderson, Lawrence David Jackel, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
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Patent number: 6285750Abstract: A call-forwarding system can be remotely controlled in a simple and easily understood manner, thereby increasing the usage of call-forwarding. By maintaining a registry of special telephone numbers for a user's telephone and, upon receiving a telephone call from one of the special telephone numbers, the system forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. The call-forwarding system includes a registry of special telephone numbers and a call-forwarding controller which, upon receiving a call from one of the special telephone numbers, forwards calls to the one of the special telephone numbers. In addition, the call-forwarding controller includes a caller-ID application which identifies all incoming telephone calls and passes this information to the controller. The controller then compares the incoming call to the telephone numbers in the registry and, upon obtaining a match, activates a routine for forwarding future incoming calls to the matched telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1998Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Ronald J. Brachman, Donnie Henderson, Lawrence David Jackel, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt, Jr.
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Patent number: 5923733Abstract: The invention provides a group message delivery system that includes a memory device coupled to a group message controller. The group message controller generates a group telephone number and a database corresponding to the group telephone number in the memory device based on first information received from a first caller. The first information includes a group list of at least one telephone number corresponding to at least one receiving party. The group message controller responds to a call by a second caller to the group telephone number by receiving second information from the second caller and delivering a message included in the second information to the at least one receiving party.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1996Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: AT&TInventors: Walter Patrick Binns, Bruce Lowell Hanson, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt
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Patent number: RE45532Abstract: A Virtual Single Account (VSA) system and method that provides a mobile user with automatic authentication and connection to a remote network via local access networks with a single password, where the local access networks may be independent of the remote network. A mobile user has a single authentication credential for one VSA that is utilized by a VSA client installed on a mobile computing device. The VSA client provides for automatically authenticating and connecting the user's mobile device to a current local access network, and the target remote network such as the user's office network. All authentication credentials are encrypted using a key generated from the user's VSA password that is generated from the user's single password. The VSA client derives the key from the submitted VSA password and decrypts all authentication credentials that are required in order to connect the mobile device to the current local access network and thereafter to the office network.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Zhimei Jiang, Hui Luo, Frederick Kenneth Schmidt