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).

  • Patent number: 10951612
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
  • Patent number: 10771335
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Chen, Ira C. Stevens, III, Zhong Chen, Matthew J. Threefoot
  • Publication number: 20200099680
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
  • Patent number: 10530771
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
  • Publication number: 20190028349
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Ming Chen, Ira C. Stevens, III, Zhong Chen, Matthew J. Threefoot
  • Publication number: 20190007399
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ira C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
  • Patent number: 9241031
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
  • Patent number: 9112995
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20140064465
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Donald J. Banta, Martin W. McKee, Ira C. Stevens, Victor Y. Valenzuela, Stephen E. Chiapella, Alma Von Duhn, Abdul S. Raheem, Sridhar Kancharlapalli
  • Patent number: 8521839
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
  • Publication number: 20130036189
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
  • Publication number: 20130036227
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III
  • Publication number: 20120303570
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventor: Ira C. Stevens, III