Patents by Inventor Kristin B. Wear

Kristin B. Wear 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: 10097974
    Abstract: A mobile communication device. The device comprises a processor, a memory, an activation client stored in the memory, and a content client stored in the memory. When executed by the processor during a process of activating the device, the activation client establishes a slot-0 communication channel and completes an activation of the device with a provisioning server in the provisioning infrastructure via a plurality of activation messages exchanged via the slot-0 communication channel. When executed by the processor, the content client parses and analyzes the parsed activation messages, based on analyzing the parsed activation messages, sends a request for content to a media server over the slot-0 communication channel, receives the requested content via the slot-0 communication channel, and presents the received content in a first window of a split-screen in a visual display, where the activation client presents activation information in a second window of the split-screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jagannath Ghoshal, Dale S. Schempp, Kristin B. Wear, Simon Youngs
  • Patent number: 10021240
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE). The UE comprises a radio transceiver, a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a customization client application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the customization client determines a group identity (GID) of the UE, reads a customization manifest received by the UE via the radio transceiver, wherein the manifest identifies a plurality of feature customization policies and a plurality of user feature customization override policies, each feature customization policy defines feature customizations that are to be active for the UE, each override policy defines which feature customizations are to be applied mandatorily notwithstanding preexisting user customizations, selects one of the plurality of feature customization policies and one of the override policies from the customization manifest based on the GID of the UE, and customizes the UE according to the selected feature customization policy and the selected override policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jagannath Ghoshal, Dale S. Schempp, Kristin B. Wear, Simon Youngs
  • Patent number: 9913132
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE). The UE comprises a radio transceiver, a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a customization client application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the customization client determines a group identity (GID) of the UE during activation of the UE that comprises a UE model identity and a wireless communication service brand identity, reads a customization manifest received by the UE via the radio transceiver, wherein the customization manifest identifies a plurality of feature customization policies and each feature customization policy defines which of a predefined number of feature customizations are to be active for the UE, selects at least one of the plurality of feature customization policies from the customization manifest based on the GID of the UE, and customizes the UE according to the selected at least one feature customization policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jagannath Ghoshal, Dale S. Schempp, Kristin B. Wear, Simon Youngs