Patents by Inventor Joseph R. Smetana

Joseph R. Smetana 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).

  • CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR INTERACTION WITH COMMUNICATION DEVICES
    Publication number: 20230127163
    Abstract: A method and a system for interacting with one or more computer resource assets at a location. The system includes a processor, a storage, and an interface suite including a first interface configured to communicate with a user device and a second interface configured to interact with at least one computing resource asset at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Nikhita Sharma, Joseph R. Smetana, David J. Fruin, Vijay K. Gurbani
  • Method and apparatus for regulating a delivery of a broadcast-multicast service in a packet data communication system
    Patent number: 7415241
    Abstract: A communication system provides one or more of congestion information and subscriber information to a broadcast applications server when the server receives a request to start a broadcast-multicast service in a coverage area. By providing the one or more of congestion information and subscriber information to the server, the server is able to make an informed, intelligent decision concerning blocking, unblocking, downgrading, or upgrading a broadcast-multicast flow of multiple broadcast-multicast flows requested for delivery to, or currently delivered to, the coverage area via a serving base station, and/or whether to add a new broadcast-multicast flow to the broadcast-multicast flows delivered to the coverage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentin Oprescu-Surcobe, Sean S. Kelley, William A. Payne, III, Joseph R. Smetana