Patents by Inventor Jeffrey M. Walsh

Jeffrey M. Walsh 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).

  • Publication number: 20140359786
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive an upload, from a first user device, of a basis content item that includes first content; determine whether a first user of the first user device has a right to restrict a use of the first content in an in-use content item uploaded by a second user device when the in-use content includes the first content; in response to determining that the first user has the right, store the basis content in the system; in response to determining that the first user does not have the right, discard the basis content; receive an upload, from a second user device, of a first in-use content item; and determine whether the first in-use content item matches the basis content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Woo Beum Lee, Jeffrey M. Walsh
  • Publication number: 20140355511
    Abstract: A controller device, implemented in a repeating system associated with a vehicle, may activate an antenna device included in the repeating system to cause the antenna device to receive a network signal and transmit an amplified network signal, corresponding to the network signal, to an area around the vehicle; and cause an amplification device, included in the repeating system, to receive the network signal, amplify the network signal to form the amplified network signal, and provide the amplified network signal for transmission by the antenna device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Verizon New Jersey Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. WALSH, Woo Beum LEE
  • Publication number: 20140279613
    Abstract: A device may receive a request, from a user, to determine whether an item is a counterfeit item. The device may perform, based on receiving the request, a comparison of at least one of: one or more images of one or more first portions of the item to one or more images of corresponding one or more first portions of the authentic item that corresponds to the item, or one or more sounds of one or more second portions of the item to one or more sounds of corresponding one or more second portions of the authentic item. The device may determine whether the item is a counterfeit item based on performing the comparison. The device may provide, to the user and based on determining whether the item is a counterfeit item, information indicating whether the item is a counterfeit item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC., VERIZON NEW JERSEY INC.
    Inventors: Woo Beum LEE, Michelle Felt, Jeffrey M. Walsh
  • Publication number: 20140237043
    Abstract: A server device may receive one or more event instruction schedules. Each of the one or more event instruction schedules may identify one or more events and corresponding instructions. The server may receive location information identifying a location of a user device; identify a particular schedule of the one or more event instruction schedules based on the location; identify an occurrence of an event of the one or more events identified by the particular schedule; identify a particular corresponding instruction for the event; and direct the user device to execute the corresponding instruction based on the occurrence of the of the one or more events. The server device may cause the user device to execute the corresponding instruction to function as a component in a combined display or in a combined sound outputting system having multiple user devices in addition to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., VERIZON NEW JERSEY INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. WALSH, Woo Beum LEE, Michelle FELT
  • Publication number: 20140157424
    Abstract: A device is configured to determine that the device is to activate a privacy mode, obscure information displayed by a display of the device, detect a user interaction with a first portion of the display, the first portion being less than an entirety of the display, and reveal first information obscured by the first portion of the display, without revealing information obscured by a remaining portion of the display, the first portion and the remaining portion comprising the entirety of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC., VERIZON NEW JERSEY INC.
    Inventors: Woo Beum LEE, Michelle Felt, Jeffrey M. Walsh