Patents by Inventor Joseph B. Thomas

Joseph B. Thomas 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: 10469671
    Abstract: Servers, computer-readable media, and methods are disclosed for halting forwarding of traffic of an application exceeding a per-application data usage limitation. For example, a processor deployed in a telecommunication network may detect traffic between a third-party device and an endpoint device, associate the traffic with an application of a plurality of applications running on the endpoint device, determine, based upon a volume of the traffic, that a per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded, and halt forwarding of the traffic when the per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 10412436
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices for presenting a personalized content to a viewer at a display are disclosed. For example, a method receives location information of a device of an individual, compares the location information to a location of the display and determines that the individual is the viewer when the location information indicates that the device of the individual is proximate to the display. The method then presents the personalized content to the viewer on the display when it is determined that the individual is the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20180183940
    Abstract: Servers, computer-readable media, and methods are disclosed for halting forwarding of traffic of an application exceeding a per-application data usage limitation. For example, a processor deployed in a telecommunication network may detect traffic between a third-party device and an endpoint device, associate the traffic with an application of a plurality of applications running on the endpoint device, determine, based upon a volume of the traffic, that a per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded, and halt forwarding of the traffic when the per-application data usage limitation for the application is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
  • Publication number: 20160080792
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices for presenting a personalized content to a viewer at a display are disclosed. For example, a method receives location information of a device of an individual, compares the location information to a location of the display and determines that the individual is the viewer when the location information indicates that the device of the individual is proximate to the display. The method then presents the personalized content to the viewer on the display when it is determined that the individual is the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Mario Kosseifi, Joseph B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4795153
    Abstract: A golf club particularly adapted as a putter includes a club head, a handle portion and a shaft structure interconnecting the club head and the handle portion. The shaft structure includes a lower shaft portion and an intermediate shaft portion. The lower shaft portion is preferably formed of two parallel lower shaft sections oriented in side-by-side relation perpendicular to the club head to define a lower shaft plane that contains the axis of the club head and that is perpendicular to the attack plane of the golf club. The handle portion is offset from the lower shaft axis by the intermediate shaft portion so that the golfer's view line is not obstructed by the handle portion or the golfer's hands during a golf stroke. The handle axis is preferably in the lower shaft plane and is parallel to the lower shaft axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Inventor: Joseph B. Thomas