Patents by Inventor Ilan Zorman

Ilan Zorman 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: 8086855
    Abstract: Interface device for interfacing between a PLMN network and a non-PLMN network, the PLMN network being configured to recognize cellular base stations as nodes thereof through which to mediate connections to cellular mobile devices, the non-PLMN networks each comprising a plurality of access points for mediating connections to network compatible mobile devices, and for which the network compatible mobile devices are not required to be cellular devices. The interface device is configured as a node of the PLMN network to appear to the PLMN network as a standard cellular base station, and comprises functionality to make non-cellular devices connecting to the non-PLMN network and attempting to access the PLMN network through the non-PLMN network appear as cellular devices to the PLMN network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Flash Networks Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyal Katz, Stuart Jeffery, Ilan Zorman, Dan Kolkowitz, Yair Karmi, Gil Ben-Noon
  • Publication number: 20090234732
    Abstract: A system and method for providing content and advertisements to a user. Embodiments of the invention may enable an advertiser to provide preferred content and advertisements and to avoid providing undesirable content and advertisements by storing content selection parameters on a customer computer or an advertisement selection computer. The selection parameters may be used to select content and advertisements to be provided to a user. A user identification parameter may be used to locate associated selection parameters. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Ilan ZORMAN, Ziv HAPARNAS, Dror BUKAI
  • Publication number: 20080189181
    Abstract: A system and method for providing content and advertisements to a user. Embodiments of the invention may enable an advertiser to provide content to existing customers by storing identification information on a customer's computer. The identification information may be obtained by a computer interacting with the user's computer and further used in order to identify the user and provide the user with personalized content. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Ilan Zorman, Ziv Haparnas
  • Publication number: 20060291455
    Abstract: Interface device for interfacing between a PLMN network and a non-PLMN network, the PLMN network being configured to recognize cellular base stations as nodes thereof through which to mediate connections to cellular mobile devices, the non-PLMN networks each comprising a plurality of access points for mediating connections to network compatible mobile devices, and for which the network compatible mobile devices are not required to be cellular devices. The interface device is configured as a node of the PLMN network to appear to the PLMN network as a standard cellular base station, and comprises functionality to make non-cellular devices connecting to the non-PLMN network and attempting to access the PLMN network through the non-PLMN network appear as cellular devices to the PLMN network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Eyal Katz, Stuart Jeffery, Ilan Zorman, Dan Kolkowitz, Yair Karmi, Gil Ben-Noon
  • Publication number: 20040222790
    Abstract: This invention improves the quality of detection and speeds up the search for threats that might be hidden in shoes worn by airport passengers and people in other environments as well as threats hidden in objects like packages, by automatically scanning for these threats when the people walk by or objects are placed in sensors capable of detecting the threats. These sensors are based primarily on an adequate implementation of the quadrupole resonance effect for threat material detection, complemented with sensors that detect the presence of conducting materials and auxiliary elements that provide the location of the threats, control the operation of the sensors and improve their effectiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: NTZO Inc.
    Inventors: Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Stuart Sanders Jeffery
  • Publication number: 20030061503
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for authentication of a user, the apparatus comprising functionality, associated with a cellular Internet authentication portal, for: communicating via a secure link with an authenticatable device, using secure personalization associated with said authentication portal and said authenticatable device, typically a mobile telephone having a SIM, to verify that the communication is with the intended user, and associating the authentication with an activity request via a non-authenticatable device, thereby to authenticate the activity request of the non-authenticatable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Eyal Katz, Ilan Zorman, Stuart Jeffery, Yair Karmi
  • Patent number: 6366195
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling the level of subscriber unit transmission power in a two-way paging network. The ability to adjust the transmission power of individual subscriber units saves critical subscriber unit resources while still ensuring that a subscriber unit's transmissions are received at a base station in a paging network system. Transmission power-level control further facilitates eliminating interference among subscriber units that transmit to the same base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Haim Harel, Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman
  • Patent number: 6128472
    Abstract: A system and method for expanding high inbound message traffic in a two-way pager network. The network includes a central base station which receives inbound messages from a plurality of subscriber units via a plurality of receiver base stations, and wherein a central base station controller is adapted for receiving only one inbound message from a subscriber during each inbound transmission time slot. Inbound message capacity is expanded by providing a message management system between the receivers and the central base station controller. Subscribers are selectively grouped into a multicast group for simultaneously transmitting messages to the message management system, the simultaneously transmitted messages making up a multicast message group. The message management system receives the multicast message group, directs exactly one selected message of the multicast message group to the central base station controller, and diverts the remaining messages to a multicast processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Haim Harel, Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman
  • Patent number: 6112057
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for resolving conflicts between the transmission or reception of disparate information over disparate beams transmitted or received by more than one base station. Simultaneous transmissions or receptions from a multiplicity of base stations carrying disparate messages on the same frequency are allowed. In certain pager-related embodiments, method and apparatus are provided for determining which subscriber units are accessible by any given beam, for determining the interference among beams, and/or for allocating transmission times for messages for various beams to support multiple simultaneous disparate transmissions or receptions, while ensuring that all subscriber units requiring service will get good quality of service in terms of signal to noise ratio, signal to interference ratio, and latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 6097931
    Abstract: A substitute for the uplink infrastructure associated with typical two-way paging protocols. Instead of employing a microcellular arrangement of paging receiver sites, wherein each cell is served by its own receiver site, multiple cells are serviced from a single receiver site. The operation of the protocol need not be modified. A region surrounding the single receiver site is divided into angular sectors. Each angular sector has an associated beam of a multi-element antenna array. The sectors represent the cells used by prior art two-way paging infrastructure. This approach substantially reduces the cost of constructing and operating a two-way pager infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 6016421
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for resolving conflicts between the transmission or reception of disparate information over disparate beams transmitted or received by more than one base station. Simultaneous transmissions or receptions from a multiplicity of base stations carrying disparate messages on the same frequency are allowed. In certain pager-related embodiments, method and apparatus are provided for determining which subscriber units are accessible by any given beam, for determining the interference among beams, and/or for allocating transmission times for messages for various beams to support multiple simultaneous disparate transmissions or receptions, while ensuring that all subscriber units requiring service will get good quality of service in terms of signal to noise ratio, signal to interference ratio, and latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 5956621
    Abstract: A pager protocol that permits individual pagers to operate in an inactive mode when not being addressed to save power but nonetheless also accommodates high capacity transmission schemes that require non-continuous illumination of sectors occupied by individual pagers. Capabilities of a conventional omnidirectional paging protocol such as one of the FLEX.TM. family may be exploited to facilitate operation in the context of non-continous illumination. A pager transmitter transmits a simulcast transmission where all pagers in all sectors receive the same message. This message includes schedule information about future transmissions to individual pagers. Pagers then plan their switching between the active and inactive states in accordance with the schedule which takes into account a timetable for illuminating sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 5953639
    Abstract: In the context of a multi-channel paging system, a method and system for assigning a transmission time and a transmission channel to a pager message responsive to the location of the target of the pager message. This facilitates operation of a multi-pager system wherein different pagers are reachable on different channels and/or at different times depending on the location of the pager. Such a system greatly increases capacity over a conventional omnidirectional system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel
  • Patent number: 5784031
    Abstract: A base station including an antenna array that can be used to generate multiple well separated pencil radiation beams. Alternatively, these beams can be combined, without significant loss, to create a wide angle beam. Non-orthogonal beams (i.e. beams with significant spatial overlap) may be combined without significant field cancellation. The result is a single antenna array that can be used to transmit (or receive) different information on different beams (using every other beam) at the same frequency or alternatively it can be used for transmitting exactly the same information on all beams or on several beams that cover a sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Wireless Online, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Weiss, David Lipman, Yair Karmi, Ilan Zorman, Haim Harel