Patents by Inventor Karl Quinn

Karl Quinn 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: 9603191
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing access to internet resources in a wireless communications network is disclosed. The method comprises storing (108) in a memory located in said communications network at least one file from an internet resource if monitoring (102) user equipment in a predefined area shows that a number of requests from said user equipment in said area to access said internet resource exceeds (106) a first threshold. The method further comprises providing (110) access to said internet resource using said at least one file stored in said memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: David Cleary, Karl Quinn
  • Patent number: 9032018
    Abstract: The invention relates to a targeting technique for controlling the provisioning of content items, for example advertisements, to users in a mobile communications network (100). A method embodiment of the technique is performed in a provisioning server (114) in the mobile communications network and comprises the steps of receiving an indication of a content item which has been selected by a first user via a first mobile terminal (126); retrieving, from a user-related database, contact information associated with the first user, wherein the contact information indicates at least one second user (128); determining a location of a second mobile terminal of the second user; and selectively initiating, if an intended presentation area for the selected content item covers the location of the second mobile terminal, a presentation of the selected content item to the second mobile terminal (128).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Patent number: 8515429
    Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a wireless telecommunications network is disclosed. The method uses location information as part of a dead reckoning algorithm to determine the general direction and average speeds of either an individual mobile station or herd of mobile stations at varying levels of abstraction. This information is then used to provision the telecommunications network in advance of a herd's arrival at a particular destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Publication number: 20110314089
    Abstract: The invention relates to a targeting technique for controlling the provisioning of content items, for example advertisements, to users in a mobile communications network (100). A method embodiment of the technique is performed in a provisioning server (114) in the mobile communications network and comprises the steps of receiving an indication of a content item which has been selected by a first user via a first mobile terminal (126); retrieving, from a user-related database, contact information associated with the first user, wherein the contact information indicates at least one second user (128); determining a location of a second mobile terminal of the second user; and selectively initiating, if an intended presentation area for the selected content item covers the location of the second mobile terminal, a presentation of the selected content item to the second mobile terminal (128).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Publication number: 20110244872
    Abstract: A method of optimizing operation of a telecommunications network when traffic demand exceeds capacity of the network. The method comprises retrieving a call data record of a first subscriber; analyzing phone calls and/or text messages made and received by said first subscriber; creating a representation of a social network of said first subscriber based on the call data record; and suspending part of the subscribers from said social network in a way that at least one member of said social network is not suspended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Publication number: 20110213835
    Abstract: An infrastructure (136, 138, 140, 142) for a delivery of content items such as SMS messages (134) or MMS messages in a mobile communications network (100) is proposed, wherein these primary content items are augmented by secondary content items, e.g. advertisements (150). A method embodiment related to the proposed network infrastructure is performed in a content provisioning server (138) and comprises the steps of receiving (S6) a content indicator (146) indicative of content of the first content item; determining (S7) a second content item based on the content indicator; and transmitting (S8) the second content item towards a user terminal (132), wherein a transmission path (S8, S9) of the second content item in the mobile communications network is at least in part separate from a transmission path (S3) of the first content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Karl Quinn, David Cleary
  • Publication number: 20110183686
    Abstract: A method of controlling operation of a wireless telecommunications network is disclosed. The method uses location information as part of a dead reckoning algorithm to determine the general direction and average speeds of either an individual mobile station or herd of mobile stations at varying levels of abstraction. This information is then used to provision the telecommunications network in advance of a herd's arrival at a particular destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventor: Karl Quinn
  • Publication number: 20110110317
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing access to internet resources in a wireless communications network is disclosed. The method comprises storing (108) in a memory located in said communications network at least one file from an internet resource if monitoring (102) user equipment in a predefined area shows that a number of requests from said user equipment in said area to access said internet resource exceeds (106) a first threshold. The method further comprises providing (110) access to said internet resource using said at least one file stored in said memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: David Cleary, Karl Quinn
  • Publication number: 20110035202
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for enabling generation of a behaviour model for at least a part of a communications network, which method utilizes a semantically rich ontology-based network model comprising an ontology of which instances represent different events/actions that may occur in the network, as well as probability information indicating the probabilistic correlation between said events/actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Karl Quinn, Katarina Matusikova
  • Publication number: 20100175054
    Abstract: A system and method for transforming a human-readable Unified Mark-Up Language (UML) model having a plurality of packages for design purposes into a machine-readable Web Ontology Language (OWL) representation having a plurality of OWL namespaces or a plurality of OWL documents for controlling network elements in a telecommunications network. A processor translates the human-readable UML model into one or more machine-readable OWL ontologies. In one embodiment, the processor produces one ontology (one file) with several namespaces. Thus, the translated ontology corresponds to the UML model, and each UML package in the UML model corresponds to a namespace. In another embodiment, the processor produces several ontologies (several files) corresponding to the UML packages in the UML model, wherein each ontology has just one namespace for its elements. The UML model in this embodiment corresponds to a base ontology importing all created ontologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Katarina Matusikova, Karl Quinn