Patents by Inventor Kent W. HUGHES

Kent W. HUGHES 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).

  • Publication number: 20240031867
    Abstract: A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an radio access management service. The radio access management service may include calculating a predicted total resource allocation value for a prospective access and transmission grant associated with a prospective time window, and a value indicating a number of end devices that can be supported. The service may generate and transmit an access and transmission grant message directed to end devices, based on the value, in which the message may include both random access response information and contention resolution information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jay J. Lee, Thomas W. Haynes, Joseph Lee, Kent W. Hughes
  • Patent number: 11678193
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a network device, a user equipment (UE) parameter update request notification indicating an update to a UE parameter of a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), and may generate an encrypted UE parameter update request. The device may cause the encrypted UE parameter update request to be provided to the USIM to cause the USIM to update the UE parameter and to generate an encrypted UE parameter update response. The device may receive, from the network device, the encrypted UE parameter update response, and may verify an authenticity of content of the encrypted UE parameter update response based on whether the encrypted UE parameter update response is signed by the USIM. The device may provide, to the network device, a result indicating whether the UE parameter is updated and whether the authenticity of the content of the encrypted UE parameter update response is verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Bjorn Hjelm, Kent W. Hughes, Gerardo S. Libunao, Yousif Targali
  • Publication number: 20220353690
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a network device, a user equipment (UE) parameter update request notification indicating an update to a UE parameter of a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), and may generate an encrypted UE parameter update request. The device may cause the encrypted UE parameter update request to be provided to the USIM to cause the USIM to update the UE parameter and to generate an encrypted UE parameter update response. The device may receive, from the network device, the encrypted UE parameter update response, and may verify an authenticity of content of the encrypted UE parameter update response based on whether the encrypted UE parameter update response is signed by the USIM. The device may provide, to the network device, a result indicating whether the UE parameter is updated and whether the authenticity of the content of the encrypted UE parameter update response is verified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy PATIL, Bjorn HJELM, Kent W. HUGHES, Gerardo S. LIBUNAO, Yousif TARGALI
  • Patent number: 11418957
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a network device, a user equipment (UE) parameter update request notification indicating an update to a UE parameter of a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), and may generate an encrypted UE parameter update request. The device may cause the encrypted UE parameter update request to be provided to the USIM to cause the USIM to update the UE parameter and to generate an encrypted UE parameter update response. The device may receive, from the network device, the encrypted UE parameter update response, and may verify an authenticity of content of the encrypted UE parameter update response based on whether the encrypted UE parameter update response is signed by the USIM. The device may provide, to the network device, a result indicating whether the UE parameter is updated and whether the authenticity of the content of the encrypted UE parameter update response is verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Bjorn Hjelm, Kent W. Hughes, Gerardo S. Libunao, Yousif Targali
  • Publication number: 20210153009
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a network device, a user equipment (UE) parameter update request notification indicating an update to a UE parameter of a universal subscriber identity module (USIM), and may generate an encrypted UE parameter update request. The device may cause the encrypted UE parameter update request to be provided to the USIM to cause the USIM to update the UE parameter and to generate an encrypted UE parameter update response. The device may receive, from the network device, the encrypted UE parameter update response, and may verify an authenticity of content of the encrypted UE parameter update response based on whether the encrypted UE parameter update response is signed by the USIM. The device may provide, to the network device, a result indicating whether the UE parameter is updated and whether the authenticity of the content of the encrypted UE parameter update response is verified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy PATIL, Bjorn HJELM, Kent W. HUGHES, Gerardo S. LIBUNAO, Yousif TARGALI
  • Patent number: 11004111
    Abstract: A system may use optical character recognition (“OCR”) techniques to identify license plates or other textual information associated with vehicles. Based on this OCR information, the system may determine additional information, such as users associated with the vehicles. The system may further obtain other information, such as history information associated with the vehicles and/or the users (e.g., via an “opt-in” data collection service). Ad content may be selected based on trends associated with the users and/or vehicles, and may be presented via “smart” billboards (e.g., billboards that may dynamically display different content).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Donna L. Polehn, Kent W. Hughes, Kumar Sanjeev, Steven R. Rados, Thomas W. Haynes, Nithya Krishnaswamy, David Chiang
  • Patent number: 10212250
    Abstract: A server device may receive, via a local wireless connection with a user device, a hardware identifier associated with the user device; transmit the hardware identifier to a profile server; receive, from the profile server, a user profile associated with the user of the user device; generate a message based on the user profile; and provide the message to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kent W. Hughes, Lalit R. Kotecha
  • Patent number: 10028246
    Abstract: Femtocells are often used to extend the coverage of wireless telecommunication networks, but do not typically incorporate mechanisms that allow their location to be easily ascertained. As described herein, a system may determine the locations of femtocells, based on the locations of user devices that attach to, detach from, handover between, and/or detect the femtocells. A map (such as a three-dimensional map) may be generated based on the determined locations of femtocells. The locations of femtocells may be used, for example, in emergency broadcast situations, in order to ensure that messages are distributed as completely as possible in a given region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Chiang, Donna L. Polehn, Steven R. Rados, Thomas W. Haynes, Kent W. Hughes
  • Patent number: 9894502
    Abstract: A system may be configured to determine a floor of a building in which the user device is located at a time a call was placed. The information, indicating the determined floor, may be provided to a callee, such as a public safety answering point (“PSAP”). The floor may be determined based on, for example, comparing an altitude of the user device and/or a list of networks or devices that are visible to the user device, to a set of reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Macias, Lalit R. Kotecha, Thomas H. Tan, Thaddeus J. Dudziak, Kent W. Hughes, Mingxing S. Li, Sagiv Draznin
  • Patent number: 9796391
    Abstract: A user device may be used to prevent a user from driving a vehicle while distracted by the user device. The user device may create a user profile, determine whether the user is driving, and collect usage data while the user is driving. The user profile may include information regarding the driver's propensity to be distracted while driving and the usage data may include information on whether the user is actually distracted by the user device. The user device may determine whether the driver is distracted based on the user profile and the usage data, and may respond in one or more ways, such as by alerting the driver with an audio signal, disabling a feature of the user device, logging instances of user distraction with a diagnostics device, activating a braking system of the vehicle, warning nearby drivers about the driver being distracted, and more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Olson, Steven R. Rados, Kent W. Hughes, Kumar Sanjeev, Donna L. Polehn, David Chiang, Nithya Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 9743316
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive analytics information regarding a cell of a wireless telecommunications network. The cell may be associated with multiple carriers, which may each be associated with, for example, a particular radio access technology (“RAT”), frequency band, or frequency sub-band. The system may dynamically rank the carriers based on measures of load associated with the carriers (as indicated by the analytics information), and may generate system information blocks (“SIBs”) that include the dynamic rankings. The SIBs may be provided to user devices, which may select carriers, via which to connect to the cell, based on the dynamic rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Macias, Deepak Kakadia, Kent W. Hughes, Lalit R. Kotecha, Maria G. Lam, Priscilla Lau
  • Patent number: 9572169
    Abstract: A device is configured to obtain interference information indicating interference levels at frequencies. The device is configured to determine a frequency for a small cell to use to communicate with a client device based on the interference information. The small cell is capable of using the frequencies to communicate and the frequency is determined from among the frequencies. The device is further configured to provide frequency information to the small cell instructing the small cell to communicate with the client device using the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Kent W. Hughes, Arda Aksu, Donna L. Polehn, Lalit R. Kotecha, David Chiang
  • Patent number: 9408092
    Abstract: Digital signal processors (DSPs) process the digital baseband signals associated with CPRI links between BBUs and RRHs. The DSPs may be implemented at the RRH nodes (e.g., at the link leading to the BBU node), at the BBU node (e.g., at the links leading to the RRH nodes), or at both. The DSPs may be used to increase performance of the RAN. For example, the DSPs may implement digital filters designed to enhance the performance of the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: David Chiang, Thaddeus J. Dudziak, John F. Macias, Kent W. Hughes, Maria G. Lam, Mingxing S. Li
  • Publication number: 20160192318
    Abstract: Femtocells are often used to extend the coverage of wireless telecommunication networks, but do not typically incorporate mechanisms that allow their location to be easily ascertained. As described herein, a system may determine the locations of femtocells, based on the locations of user devices that attach to, detach from, handover between, and/or detect the femtocells. A map (such as a three-dimensional map) may be generated based on the determined locations of femtocells. The locations of femtocells may be used, for example, in emergency broadcast situations, in order to ensure that messages are distributed as completely as possible in a given region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: David Chiang, Donna L. Polehn, Steven R. Rados, Thomas W. Haynes, Kent W. Hughes
  • Publication number: 20160125721
    Abstract: A user device may monitor sensor data gathered by the user device; detect, based on the sensor data, that the user device has been dropped; and output, based on detecting that the user device has been dropped, an alert indicating that the user device has been dropped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Kent W. Hughes, David Chiang, Donna L. Polehn, Kumar Sanjeev, Nithya Krishnaswamy, Brian Olson
  • Publication number: 20160110759
    Abstract: A system may use optical character recognition (“OCR”) techniques to identify license plates or other textual information associated with vehicles. Based on this OCR information, the system may determine additional information, such as users associated with the vehicles. The system may further obtain other information, such as history information associated with the vehicles and/or the users (e.g., via an “opt-in” data collection service). Ad content may be selected based on trends associated with the users and/or vehicles, and may be presented via “smart” billboards (e.g., billboards that may dynamically display different content).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Donna L. Polehn, Kent W. Hughes, Kumar Sanjeev, Steven R. Rados, Thomas W. Haynes, Nithya Krishnaswamy, David Chiang
  • Publication number: 20160101784
    Abstract: A user device may be used to prevent a user from driving a vehicle while distracted by the user device. The user device may create a user profile, determine whether the user is driving, and collect usage data while the user is driving. The user profile may include information regarding the driver's propensity to be distracted while driving and the usage data may include information on whether the user is actually distracted by the user device. The user device may determine whether the driver is distracted based on the user profile and the usage data, and may respond in one or more ways, such as by alerting the driver with an audio signal, disabling a feature of the user device, logging instances of user distraction with a diagnostics device, activating a braking system of the vehicle, warning nearby drivers about the driver being distracted, and more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Olson, Steven R. Rados, Kent W. Hughes, Kumar Sanjeev, Donna L. Polehn, David Chiang, Nithya Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 9294927
    Abstract: A network device may select one or more secondary bands in a spectrum based on a measure of quality of the one or more secondary bands; transmit information identifying the one or more secondary bands to an end unit; code, based on a coding scheme, a data flow to obtain multiple data signals that represent the data flow; and transmit, towards the end unit, the multiple data signals via the one or more secondary bands and a primary band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Yang, Thomas H. Tan, Kent W Hughes, Deepak Kakadia
  • Patent number: 9277018
    Abstract: A mobile device may perform actions based on sensing a wireless beacons. The action to take, for a particular beacon, may be determined based on a query to a remote database or server. For example, in one implementation, a method may include detecting a wireless beacon that is in proximity to the mobile device; querying, based on the beacon identifier, a remote computing device for attribute information relating to the wireless beacon; and determining, based on the received attribute information, one or more actions to perform by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lalit R. Kotecha, Kent W. Hughes, Kumar Sanjeev, Mingxing S. Li
  • Publication number: 20160044537
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive analytics information regarding a cell of a wireless telecommunications network. The cell may be associated with multiple carriers, which may each be associated with, for example, a particular radio access technology (“RAT”), frequency band, or frequency sub-band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: John F. Macias, Deepak Kakadia, Kent W. Hughes, Lalit R. Kotecha, Maria G. Lam, Priscilla Lau