Patents by Inventor Ira C. Stevens
Ira C. Stevens 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: 10951612Abstract: An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
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Patent number: 10771335Abstract: A network device stores capability designations associated with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and receives, from a customer device, one or more of the capability designations associated with a first type of IoT device. The network device receives event data generated by the first type of IoT device and maps the event data to the one or more of the capability designations. The mapping produces normalized IoT data for the first type of IoT device. The network device generates semantic information for the normalized IoT data and assembles a device model for the first type of IoT device. The device model includes the one or more of the capability designations and the semantic information.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.Inventors: Ming Chen, Ira C. Stevens, III, Zhong Chen, Matthew J. Threefoot
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Publication number: 20200099680Abstract: An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
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Patent number: 10530771Abstract: An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
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Publication number: 20190028349Abstract: A network device stores capability designations associated with Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and receives, from a customer device, one or more of the capability designations associated with a first type of IoT device. The network device receives event data generated by the first type of IoT device and maps the event data to the one or more of the capability designations. The mapping produces normalized IoT data for the first type of IoT device. The network device generates semantic information for the normalized IoT data and assembles a device model for the first type of IoT device. The device model includes the one or more of the capability designations and the semantic information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Ming Chen, Ira C. Stevens, III, Zhong Chen, Matthew J. Threefoot
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Publication number: 20190007399Abstract: An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
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Patent number: 9241031Abstract: A method includes registering with a proxy for an auxiliary event-package, wherein the auxiliary event-package is provided by a plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may further include subscribing to the auxiliary event-package through the proxy. The proxy forwards the subscription to the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may include receiving notification from each of the auxiliary event-package servers. The notification includes an indicator of capacity of the auxiliary event-package server. The method may include determining an auxiliary event-package server having a highest capacity based on the indicators of capacity of the auxiliary event-package servers. In addition, the method may include selecting the auxiliary event-package server having the highest capacity as a primary handle for the auxiliary event-package.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
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Patent number: 9112995Abstract: A calendar included in a computing device receives an item relating to a conference call. An automated parser is used to parse the item to obtain information relating to the conference call. The conference call information in is stored a conference application and is used to initiate a conference call.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Donald J. Banta, Martin W. McKee, Ira C. Stevens, Victor Y. Valenzuela, Stephen E. Chiapella, Alma Von Duhn, Abdul S. Raheem, Sridhar Kancharlapalli
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Publication number: 20140064465Abstract: A calendar included in a computing device receives an item relating to a conference call. An automated parser is used to parse the item to obtain information relating to the conference call. The conference call information in is stored a conference application and is used to initiate a conference call.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Inventors: Donald J. Banta, Martin W. McKee, Ira C. Stevens, Victor Y. Valenzuela, Stephen E. Chiapella, Alma Von Duhn, Abdul S. Raheem, Sridhar Kancharlapalli
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Patent number: 8521839Abstract: A method includes registering with a proxy for an auxiliary event-package, wherein the auxiliary event-package is provided by a plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may further include subscribing to the auxiliary event-package through the proxy. The proxy forwards the subscription to the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may include receiving an initial notify from one of the auxiliary event-package servers and identifying the one of the auxiliary event-package servers as a primary handle for the auxiliary event-package. In addition, the method may include identifying others of the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers as secondary handles for the auxiliary event-package.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
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Publication number: 20130036189Abstract: A method includes registering with a proxy for an auxiliary event-package, wherein the auxiliary event-package is provided by a plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may further include subscribing to the auxiliary event-package through the proxy. The proxy forwards the subscription to the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may include receiving an initial notify from one of the auxiliary event-package servers and identifying the one of the auxiliary event-package servers as a primary handle for the auxiliary event-package. In addition, the method may include identifying others of the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers as secondary handles for the auxiliary event-package.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
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Publication number: 20130036227Abstract: A method includes registering with a proxy for an auxiliary event-package, wherein the auxiliary event-package is provided by a plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may further include subscribing to the auxiliary event-package through the proxy. The proxy forwards the subscription to the plurality of auxiliary event-package servers. The method may include receiving notification from each of the auxiliary event-package servers. The notification includes an indicator of capacity of the auxiliary event-package server. The method may include determining an auxiliary event-package server having a highest capacity based on the indicators of capacity of the auxiliary event-package servers. In addition, the method may include selecting the auxiliary event-package server having the highest capacity as a primary handle for the auxiliary event-package.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
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Publication number: 20120303570Abstract: A system for and method of parsing an electronic mail for scheduling a calendar appointment is presented. The system and method for parsing information from an electronic mail for scheduling a calendar appointment. The method may include receiving an electronic mail comprising observations for scheduling a calendar appointment and decoding, via at least one computer processor, the observations into symbol vectors. The method may also include classifying the symbol vectors based at least in part on a statistical probability and converting the observations based at least in part on a token. The method may further include outputting a dictionary result list based at least in part on the statistical probability, wherein the dictionary result list comprises one or more token name-value pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III