Patents by Inventor Jeremy R. Breau
Jeremy R. Breau 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: 8995429Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning unique network identifiers in a packet-switched wired network and methods for communicating with a network device in a packet-switched wired network are provided. A request for a unique network identifier for a network device is received. A socket-based unique network identifier, including an IP address and one or more ports, is assigned to the network device. The unique network identifier is created by combining an IP address and one or more ports. This allows multiple unique network identifiers to be created from a single IP address, where each unique network identifier consists of the same IP address combined with a different group of one or more ports.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, John H. Bennett, III, Terry D. Nebergall, Frederick C. Rogers, Joseph Christopher Shojayi
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Patent number: 8898249Abstract: A user, identified by a network access identifier (NAI) or other user identifier, uses a communication device, identified by a hostname or other device identifier. An Internet Protocol (IP) address is obtained for the communication device, e.g., when the user logs in for access to a packet-switched network. An association between the IP address and the hostname is registered in a domain name server. An association between the user identifier and the hostname is registered in an RWHOIS server. An application may query the RWHOIS server to determine the hostname of the communication device being used by the user and then query the domain name server to determine the IP address of the communication device.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2006Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Lyle T. Bertz, Jeremy R. Breau
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Publication number: 20140344955Abstract: A wireless system receives a registration from a user device and transfers a request for the user device to an authorization server. The authorization server authorizes a user session for the user device and transfers a common identifier for the user session to the wireless system. The wireless system receives the common identifier and transfers a registration for the user device to an application node. The application node receives the registration and transfers a request for the user device to the authorization server. The authorization server authorizes a user application for the user device and transfers the common identifier for the user application to the application node. The wireless communication system tracks the user session and transfers user session data records having the common identifier. The application node tracks the user application and transfers user application data records having the common identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Gary Joel Rieschick, Jeremy R. Breau, Raymond Robert Doerr, John Eric Belser
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Patent number: 8886923Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for secure Mobile-IP traffic traversing network address translation (NAT). A virtual-private-network (VPN) tunnel extending between the mobile node and the home agent is established, wherein the home agent comprises a VPN function. Establishing the VPN tunnel comprises (i) the mobile node communicating with the home agent at a public address of the home agent via a private network, a NAT device, and a public network and (ii) the home agent assigning the mobile node a first public address. The mobile node is registered with the home agent. Registering the mobile node comprises (i) the mobile node communicating via the VPN tunnel with the home agent at the public address of the home agent and (ii) establishing the first public address as a home address for the mobile node for, for example, purposes of Mobile-IP communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Ray R. Doerr, Dan Durig, Robert C. Lamb, Arun Santharam
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Patent number: 8854991Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for updating bindings associated with a first mobile IP session by tunneling binding updates through registration messages associated with a second mobile IP session. A first mobile IP client provides binding updates to a second mobile IP client, which includes the binding updates in an extended registration request. The extended registration request is communicated to a mobile IP agent associated with the second mobile IP session. The request is parsed, and the binding updates are provided to a mobile IP agent associated with the first mobile IP session. Binding-update acknowledgements can be returned to mobile IP clients in a similar fashion.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Joseph Christopher Shojayi, Frederick C. Rogers, Terry D. Nebergall
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Patent number: 8848531Abstract: Computer-readable media for dynamic quality of service assignment are described. In embodiments, a data packet is received that is part of a communications stream and a dynamically modifiable quality of service indicator (DMQOSI) is embedded into the data packet wherein, in various embodiments, the DMQOSI indicates a prescribed quality of service that is associated with the data packet and is modifiable prior to completing a communication of the communications stream. In various embodiments, the data packet is communicated from a source to a destination that at least periodically references the DMQOSI to ensure that the data packet is being communicated consistent with the prescribed quality of service associated with the data packet.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Frederick C. Rogers, Ray R. Doerr, Gary Rieschick
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Patent number: 8838487Abstract: A method for maintaining a common billing identifier for a user session in a communication network is presented. In the method, an authentication node of the communication network receives a first authentication request associated with a user session. In response to the first authentication request, a billing identifier associated with the user session is transferred from the authentication node to a source of the first authentication request. A second authentication request associated with the same user session is received at the authentication node. In response to the second authentication request, the same billing identifier is transferred from the authentication node to a source of the second authentication request.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Gary Joel Rieschick, Jeremy R. Breau, Raymond Robert Doerr, John Eric Belser
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Patent number: 8838488Abstract: A method is provided for maintaining a common billing identifier for a user session in a communication network. In the method, an authentication request associated with a user session is transferred from an access node of the communication network to an authentication node of the network. The access node receives an authentication acknowledgment transferred from the authentication node in response to the request. In response to the acknowledgment, a billing identifier associated with the user session is generated at the access node. The billing identifier is transferred from the access node to an application node of the communication network.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communication Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, John Eric Belser, Gary Joel Rieschick, Raymond Robert Doerr
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Patent number: 8825856Abstract: Media and systems are provided for limiting bandwidth consumption in a network environment by presenting customized browser-presentable resources. A request for a base universal resource locator (URL), followed by a request for a specific resource, is received. An optimized URL for the request is generated. When a predetermined number of requests for the specific component resource are received during the course of accessing the base URL, subsequent user requests for the base URL are redirected to the optimized URL. Thus, only the specific resources are presented for display. Requests to return to the base URL can result in discontinuing redirection. Returning to the base URL and accessing additional resources can modify the enhanced URL or redirect requests for the base URL to a difference component resource. Network bandwidth usage is enhanced by recognizing repetitive user requests.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Bob Pippert, Douglas R. Green, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Samuel M. Woleben
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Publication number: 20140199986Abstract: A wireless communication system generates operating information indicating if a monitoring wireless communication device is in active mode or in idle mode for a wireless data service. The wireless system receives location information that indicates geographic locations of a monitored wireless communication device for delivery to the monitoring wireless communication device. The system stores the location information if the monitoring wireless communication device is in idle mode. The system wirelessly transfers the location information to the monitoring wireless communication device if the monitoring wireless communication device is in active mode. If the monitoring wireless communication device transitions from idle mode to active mode and has stored location information, the system generates summary location data for the monitored wireless communication device based on the stored location information and wirelessly transfers the summary location data to the monitoring wireless communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Douglas R. Green, Jeremy R. Breau
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Patent number: 8780748Abstract: Methods for registering a first internet protocol version registration request and a second internet protocol version registration request in a single binding on a home agent are provided. In embodiments, entries are recognized as sharing common information in an IPv4 and IPv6 binding table. The entries with common information are combined into one binding. Through the combining of the bindings, the IPv4 and IPv6 sessions are combined into one session.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Joseph Christopher Shojayi, Jeremy R. Breau, Frederick C. Rogers, Terry D. Nebergall, Ramkumar Swaminathan
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Patent number: 8769057Abstract: Computer systems, computer-readable media, and computerized methods for resolving fractional IP addresses using domain name system (DNS)-enabled devices are provided. The system includes a local DNS server that accesses a correlation table, which maintains a mapping between fractional IP addresses and domain names. The fractional IP addresses each represent an IPv4 address paired with a respective value of an IP version field. The system also includes a client device that is capable of transmitting to the local DNS server a request message, which includes a destination name of a device targeted by the client device. Upon receiving the request message, the local DNS server compares the destination name against the correlation table. When a match is discovered within the domain names populated within the correlation table, the local DNS server identifies and transmits to the client device a fractional IP address mapped to the matching domain name.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, John H. Bennett, III, Frederick C. Rogers, Joseph Christopher Shojayi
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Patent number: 8761156Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning unique network identifiers in a packet-switched wireless network and methods for communicating with a wireless device in a packet-switched wireless network are provided. A request for a unique network identifier for a wireless device is received. A socket-based unique network identifier, including an IP address and one or more ports, is assigned to the wireless device. The unique network identifier is created by combining an IP address and one or more ports. This allows multiple unique network identifiers to be created from a single IP address, where each unique network identifier consists of the same IP address combined with a different group of one or more ports.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, John H. Bennett, III, Terry D. Nebergall, Frederick C. Rogers, Joseph Christopher Shojayi
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Patent number: 8750838Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for reverse buffering a media content stream on a mobile device. The mobile device requests the media content from a host of the media content. The host streams the media content to the mobile communications device. The mobile communications device buffers the streaming media content and presents the streaming media content. The buffered media content is reverse buffered in a reverse buffer associated with the mobile communications device. The reverse buffered media content is accessible by other mobile communications devices that request the media content. The mobile communications device receives a request for the reverse buffered media content and streams the reverse buffered media content to the requesting device.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Pallavur Sankaranaraynan
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Publication number: 20140153543Abstract: What is disclosed is a method of operating a communications system. The method includes transferring a wireless local area network (WLAN) beacon signal from a wireless transceiver, where the WLAN beacon signal comprises packets identifying the WLAN. The method further provides receiving wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals into the wireless transceiver and determining WWAN characteristics. The WWAN characteristics comprise at least one of signal strength, data rate, and transceiver battery status. The method further includes, in the wireless transceiver, inserting a characteristic indicator into the packet headers of the WLAN beacon signal indicating the WWAN characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Trevor Daniel Shipley, Jeremy R. Breau, Cesar Perez, Douglas Alan Olding
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Patent number: 8718678Abstract: What is disclosed is a method for communicating a presence message from a presence server to a monitoring wireless communication device, wherein the presence message indicates a location-oriented status of a monitored wireless communication device. The method includes receiving the presence message from the presence server and determining if the monitoring wireless communication device is in an active mode. If the monitoring wireless communication device is in the active mode, the method includes transferring the presence message for delivery to the monitoring wireless communication device. If the monitoring wireless communication device is not in the active mode, the method includes applying filtering characteristics to the presence message, creating summary data of the presence message, and transferring the summary data of the presence message for delivery to the monitoring wireless communication device once the monitoring wireless communication device enters the active mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Douglas R. Green, Jeremy R. Breau
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Patent number: 8713193Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable media are provided for pausing a multimedia data stream. Techniques are disclosed that include receiving a pause request message, wherein the pause request message includes a sequence number of a last processed media frame within a multimedia data stream when a pause command was issued from a user. Techniques disclosed further include pausing a transmission of the multimedia data stream to a client device. Moreover, the techniques disclosed include determining a time-out value based on one or more local resources of a server, wherein the time-out value corresponds to a length of time the media stream can be paused. Furthermore, the techniques disclosed include creating a timestamp of when the transmission of the media stream was paused. Additionally, the techniques disclosed include sending the time-out value and the timestamp to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Frederick C. Rogers, Lyle T. Bertz, William Routt, Amirali Emami
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Patent number: 8699458Abstract: When a mobile node hands off to a new network access server/foreign agent (NAS/FA) and establishes a data link layer connection with the new NAS/FA, the NAS/FA will determine whether the mobile node is registered with a preferred home agent. If not, the NAS/FA will force the mobile node to hand off to the preferred home agent, while maintaining the data link layer connection with the mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Jeremy R. Breau, Arun Santharam
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Patent number: 8687616Abstract: What is disclosed is a method of operating a communications system. The method includes transferring a wireless local area network (WLAN) beacon signal from a wireless transceiver, where the WLAN beacon signal comprises packets identifying the WLAN. The method further provides receiving wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals into the wireless transceiver and determining WWAN characteristics. The WWAN characteristics comprise at least one of signal strength, data rate, and transceiver battery status. The method further includes, in the wireless transceiver, inserting a characteristic indicator into the packet headers of the WLAN beacon signal indicating the WWAN characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Trevor Daniel Shipley, Jeremy R. Breau, Cesar Perez, Douglas Alan Olding
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Patent number: 8688808Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided to allow for the establishment of an Internet protocol (IP) data session with a dual-stack mobile communications device by authenticating the device. An IP data session is requested, and a home agent sends an indication of this request. A DNS server that will be assigned to a device is identified by querying a database and is identified based on the device's capabilities. The device capabilities are determined by a device-capability identifier that is associated with the user of the device or the device itself, such as a network access identifier. The capabilities may include the device type, applications, programs, or services that the user of the device is subscribed to, or capabilities that are inherent to the phone. Once the DNS server is identified, a server identifier is sent to the home agent, which assigns the DNS server to the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: John H. Bennett, III, Dale E. Winn, Jeremy R. Breau, Frederick C. Rogers, Robert J. Pierce