Patents by Inventor Javier FERRO

Javier FERRO 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).

  • Recommendations based on real-time usage information
    Patent number: 9924044
    Abstract: A method including receiving a request for a service or an application from a user device associated with a customer; determining a type of service or a type of application; providing the service or the application; performing real-time tracking of the customer's usage of the service or the application based on the type of service or the type of application; generating one or more recommendations pertaining to the service or the application based on the real-time tracking; and sending the one or more recommendations to the customer via the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Xuming Chen, Lindsay Notwell, Phillip A. Ritter, Barry F. Hoffner, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Sergei Karpov, Ho Yin Cheuk, Javier Ferro, John C. Powell
  • Mobile station with voice call acknowledgement and missed call scheduling
    Patent number: 8676167
    Abstract: A communication station has a circuit that receives an incoming voice call from a calling party, and an acknowledgement mechanism that produces an acknowledgement message sent to the calling party in response to the incoming call if a user of the communication station does not answer the call. In the examples, the communication station sends short message service (SMS) or multimedia message service (MMS) acknowledgement message to the calling party. Also, a scheduling mechanism may be provided for adding a calendar entry to a calendar implemented in the communication station so as to remind the user about the acknowledged incoming call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventor: Javier Ferro
  • RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON REAL-TIME USAGE INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20120191536
    Abstract: A method including receiving a request for a service or an application from a user device associated with a customer; determining a type of service or a type of application; providing the service or the application; performing real-time tracking of the customer's usage of the service or the application based on the type of service or the type of application; generating one or more recommendations pertaining to the service or the application based on the real-time tracking; and sending the one or more recommendations to the customer via the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Xuming Chen, Lindsay Notwell, Phillip A. Ritter, Barry F. Hoffner, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Sergei Karpov, Ho Yin Cheuk, Javier Ferro, John C. Powell
  • MOBILE STATION WITH VOICE CALL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND MISSED CALL SCHEDULING
    Publication number: 20100159964
    Abstract: A communication station has a circuit that receives an incoming voice call from a calling party, and an acknowledgement mechanism that produces an acknowledgement message sent to the calling party in response to the incoming call if a user of the communication station does not answer the call. In the examples, the communication station sends short message service (SMS) or multimedia message service (MMS) acknowledgement message to the calling party. Also, a scheduling mechanism may be provided for adding a calendar entry to a calendar implemented in the communication station so as to remind the user about the acknowledged incoming call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventor: Javier FERRO