Patents by Inventor Joe Regan
Joe Regan 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: 11691083Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a scavenger hunt. The systems and methods described herein involve receiving at an interface a list of a plurality of attractions, and communicating the list of the plurality of attractions to at least one device associated with a participant over a network. Scavenger hunt participants may then gather imagery of the required attractions. The systems and methods described herein then involve receiving imagery from the at least one participant and executing at least one computer vision procedure to determine whether the received imagery includes at least one of the plurality of attractions.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Photo Butler Inc.Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Carlson Craig, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Tricia Chang, Andrew P. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20220072429Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a scavenger hunt. The systems and methods described herein involve receiving at an interface a list of a plurality of attractions, and communicating the list of the plurality of attractions to at least one device associated with a participant over a network. Scavenger hunt participants may then gather imagery of the required attractions. The systems and methods described herein then involve receiving imagery from the at least one participant and executing at least one computer vision procedure to determine whether the received imagery includes at least one of the plurality of attractions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Carlson Craig, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, JR., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Tricia Chang, Andrew P. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20210390134Abstract: Methods and systems for generating a presentation file. The systems and methods described herein may analyze received imagery in accordance with one or more criterion, and then select at least a portion of the received imagery based on the portion satisfying the at least one criterion. The systems and methods may then generate a presentation file such as a video slideshow that includes the selected imagery portion(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Craig Carlson, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Tricia Chang, Andrew P. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20210390312Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying at least one participant in imagery related to an event. The methods described herein may involve receiving imagery related to an event and executing at least one of an indicia identification procedure to identify at least one visual indicia in the imagery and a facial identification procedure to identify at least one face in the imagery. The methods described herein may then identify a person in the imagery based on at least one of the execution of the indicia identification procedure and the facial identification procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Craig Carlson, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, JR., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Andrew P. Goldfarb
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Patent number: 10885619Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting an image. The systems and methods may receive one or more images as well as a context associated with the received imagery. Based on the context of the received imagery, an appropriate engine may analyze the imagery by executing one or more routines. Based on the results of the analysis, one or more of the images may be selected.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Photo Butler, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Joe Regan, David Benaim, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr., Andrew Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20190122354Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting an image. The systems and methods may receive one or more images as well as a context associated with the received imagery. Based on the context of the received imagery, an appropriate engine may analyze the imagery by executing one or more routines. Based on the results of the analysis, one or more of the images may be selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Joe Regan, David Benaim, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, JR., Andrew Goldfarb
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Patent number: 9225622Abstract: Echo messaging for operation, administration, and management of a service-based distribution path and associated services are disclosed. Service-based distribution paths or transport tunnels include services mapped or bound to a path associated with the transport tunnel. Echo messaging provides OAM capabilities to monitor the operational state of a service-based distribution path, including determining configuration, connectivity, and other characteristics of the path and associated services that transport data. OAM functions provided by echo messaging enable OAM functions despite service volume along a core network, path or set of paths.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Joe Regan, Vach Kompella, Wenao Hu
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Patent number: 9130774Abstract: Data mirroring in a service such as a virtual private LAN service is disclosed. Data packets, segments, frames, or other forms of encapsulation may be mirrored off of a core network (e.g., IP, TCP) to one or more mirroring destinations without using a parallel network. Encapsulation techniques are provided that enable packets to be mirrored and transmitted across services such as VPLS, MPLS, and others to a mirror destination. Once received at the mirror destination, mirrored packets may be used for troubleshooting in a more efficient and less resource and time-consuming manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventor: Joe Regan
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Patent number: 8751683Abstract: A technique for operating a network involves controlling the black-holing of traffic by selectively redirecting unicast traffic destined for a dual-homed customer equipment (CE) device from a first provider backbone bridge (PBB) provider edge (PE) device to a second PBB PE device in response to a service failure. Unicast traffic is selectively redirected from the first PBB PE device to the second PBB PE device for a time interval that is long enough to enable the customer source MAC address (CMAC)-to-backbone MAC address (BMAC) association of the second PBB PE device to be learned by other PBB PE devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Florin Balus, Kendall William Harvey, Joe Regan, Paul Kwok
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Patent number: 8626883Abstract: Inserting an address used for performing such OAM functions in an efficient way that is transparent to a customer or service using the network path is disclosed. An indication is received that a source address reserved for OAM use should be inserted into a forwarding database associated with a provider network node, such as a provider edge device, that receives the indication. The address is inserted into a forwarding database as an address that is owned by the provider network node and reserved for OAM use. One or more other nodes associated with a service with which the OAM address is associated may be notified that the OAM address is associated with the provider network node that owns the OAM address.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Vach Kompella, Joe Regan, Wenao Hu
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Patent number: 8284656Abstract: A system and method for multi-nodal APS (MN-APS) protection switching for a virtual private LAN service (VPLS) using a redundant pair of PE (provider edge) nodes is provided. In the event of an APS switchover, the previously active node of the redundant pair sends explicit requests to the other provider edge nodes to flush their MAC address entries that they had previously learned through the previously active node, facilitating quicker re-convergence and reduction of black-holing.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Kajal Saha, Johan van Besouw, Joe Regan
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Publication number: 20120195200Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus providing a hierarchical policer in which parent and child policers are atomically coupled with each other and responsively adapt policer operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventor: Joe Regan
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Patent number: 8098649Abstract: Service-based distribution paths that provide transport tunnels and control capabilities for data communication over a service are disclosed. Service-based distribution paths or transport tunnels include services mapped or bound to the transport tunnel. Encapsulation provides for packet-by-packet handling, including service separation of packets based on header data included within each packet. Services may be monitored, managed, and controlled by performing operational determinations between end points to ensure end-to-end service configuration and connectivity are established.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Joe Regan, Sunil Khankekar, Marcelo Mourier
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Publication number: 20100228842Abstract: Inserting an address used for performing such OAM functions in an efficient way that is transparent to a customer or service using the network path is disclosed. An indication is received that a source address reserved for OAM use should be inserted into a forwarding database associated with a provider network node, such as a provider edge device, that receives the indication. The address is inserted into a forwarding database as an address that is owned by the provider network node and reserved for OAM use. One or more other nodes associated with a service with which the OAM address is associated may be notified that the OAM address is associated with the provider network node that owns the OAM address.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventors: Vach Kompella, Joe Regan, Wenao Hu
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Patent number: 7782763Abstract: A technique for operating a network involves controlling the black-holing of traffic by forcing customer source MAC address (CMAC)-to-backbone source MAC address (BMAC) associations at provider backbone bridge (PBB) provider edge (PE) devices to be flushed from their corresponding forwarding information bases (FIBs) in response to a service failure so that new CMAC-to-BMAC associations, which are reflective of a secondary traffic path, are learned faster than they would otherwise be learned if the network had relied on native functionality to learn new CMAC-to-BMAC associations that are reflective of the secondary traffic path.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Florin Balus, Kendall William Harvey, Joe Regan, Paul Kwok
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Patent number: 7747716Abstract: Inserting an address used for performing such OAM functions in an efficient way that is transparent to a customer or service using the network path is disclosed. An indication is received that a source address reserved for OAM use should be inserted into a forwarding database associated with a provider network node, such as a provider edge device, that receives the indication. The address is inserted into a forwarding database as an address that is owned by the provider network node and reserved for OAM use. One or more other nodes associated with a service with which the OAM address is associated may be notified that the OAM address is associated with the provider network node that owns the OAM address.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Vach Kompella, Joe Regan, Wenao Hu
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Patent number: 7716366Abstract: An enhanced virtual router redundancy protocol for manipulating master router selection within a network is disclosed. The use of a priority control policy and priority values take into account conditions and events that may distinguish the desirability of one router over another. Explicit priority values may be specified to indicate the explicit priority of a particular router instance. Delta priority values may also be used to decrement or increment a base priority for a particular router instance. By using priority control policies and priority values to select a master, improved control, management, and manipulation of virtual router instances over a particular IP core network interface are enabled.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Joe Regan, Wenao Hu
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Patent number: 7710970Abstract: A header value or label, referred to herein as a source station identification (SSID), is added to an encapsulated packet header, such as by adding the SSID as a label to the bottom of a stack of MPLS labels. The SSID comprises a unique identifier that identifies the PE that originated the packet. In some embodiments, the IP address of the originating PE may be used as the SSID for that PE. The PE receiving this packet can then associate the source Ethernet MAC address of received TLS traffic, e.g., with the originating PE. Given the SSID of the originating PE, the receiving PE is able to determine which LSP to use to send Ethernet traffic to the station with the learned MAC address.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Nicholas W. Tingle, Joe Regan
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Patent number: 7558194Abstract: Loss of connectivity on a mesh or virtual service (e.g., VPLS) may be restored by “stitching” a healing path between an affected node and another node on the mesh. Connectivity may be restored by “healing” or constructing an alternate path or connection between the affected node and the mesh. Unidirectional and bidirectional healing may be used to establish an alternate path between the affected node and the mesh. Additionally, removing pseudowire connections between the affected node and the mesh may be performed, while establishing a spoke connection to an advertised, available router to create a new connection or “stitch” together existing connections.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Joe Regan, Vach Kompella
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Publication number: 20090129384Abstract: Data mirroring in a service such as a virtual private LAN service is disclosed. Data packets, segments, frames, or other forms of encapsulation may be mirrored off of a core network (e.g., IP, TCP) to one or more mirroring destinations without using a parallel network. Encapsulation techniques are provided that enable packets to be mirrored and transmitted across services such as VPLS, MPLS, and others to a mirror destination. Once received at the mirror destination, mirrored packets may be used for troubleshooting in a more efficient and less resource and time-consuming manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventor: Joe Regan