Patents by Inventor James M. Wiley

James M. Wiley 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: 9560506
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive a request for emergency contact information associated with a first user. The request may include information identifying the first user. The system may further determine a geographic location of the first user; and identify a second user. The identifying may be based on at least one of an amount or frequency of communication between the first user and the second user, or a geographical proximity of the first user to the second user. The system may additionally identify contact information associated with the second user; and output, to a device from which the request was received, the contact information associated with the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva, James M. Wiley, Sutap Chatterjee
  • Publication number: 20140335814
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive a request for emergency contact information associated with a first user. The request may include information identifying the first user. The system may further determine a geographic location of the first user; and identify a second user. The identifying may be based on at least one of an amount or frequency of communication between the first user and the second user, or a geographical proximity of the first user to the second user. The system may additionally identify contact information associated with the second user; and output, to a device from which the request was received, the contact information associated with the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Bhaskar R. Gudlavenkatasiva, James M. Wiley, Sutap Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 8533214
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a user with a ranked list of possible physical addresses in response to an address submitted by the user. An address submitted by a user is parsed and a number of possible candidate addresses are generated from the user provided address. The quality of the candidate addresses is ranked according to the quality of their individual address elements and factors applied to these elements. An overall quality score for each candidate address is thereby derived. The list of candidate address is displayed to the user according to overall quality score ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nityanand Sharma, Sutap Chatterjee, James M. Wiley, Nitesh Malviya
  • Publication number: 20110307476
    Abstract: An approach is provided for providing a user with a ranked list of possible physical addresses in response to an address submitted by the user. An address submitted by a user is parsed and a number of possible candidate addresses are generated from the user provided address. The quality of the candidate addresses is ranked according to the quality of their individual address elements and factors applied to these elements. An overall quality score for each candidate address is thereby derived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Nityanand Sharma, Sutap Chatterjee, James M. Wiley, Nitesh Malviya
  • Publication number: 20110087695
    Abstract: The apparatus, methods and systems for a truncated postal code smart address parser (hereinafter, “SAP”) described herein implement a text parser whereby users may enter a text string, such as manually via an input field. The SAP processes the input address string to extract address elements for storage, display, reporting, and/or use in a wide variety of back-end applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Nityanand Sharma, Sutap Chatterjee, James M. Wiley, Nitesh Malviya
  • Patent number: 5358768
    Abstract: A two-piece mat for the floor of a vehicle. The mat includes a lower mat structure for placement on the floor of a vehicle; an upper mat structure for placement over the upper surface of the lower mat structure; and attachment structure for removably attaching the upper mat structure to the lower mat structure. The attaching structure includes first attachment structure secured to the upper surface of the lower mat structure and includes second attachment structure secured to the lower surface of the upper mat structure for coacting with the first attachment structure to removably attach the upper mat structure to the lower mat structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Inventor: James M. Wiley, III