Patents by Inventor Lodema Margaret Steinbach

Lodema Margaret Steinbach 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).

  • Dynamic web content via contextually aware text messaging
    Patent number: 9544746
    Abstract: A system may provide dynamic web-based content in conjunction with text message content. A user may use text messages to interact with web content (e.g., to select hyperlinks, request information, provide information, etc.). A content server may process the text messages, sent by the user, in order to determine web content to provide to the user. The text messages may be authenticated by a message relay server, thereby eliminating the need for the content server to request authentication or identification information from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Lynn, Lodema Margaret Steinbach
  • DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT VIA CONTEXTUALLY AWARE TEXT MESSAGING
    Publication number: 20160192161
    Abstract: A system may provide dynamic web-based content in conjunction with text message content. A user may use text messages to interact with web content (e.g., to select hyperlinks, request information, provide information, etc.). A content server may process the text messages, sent by the user, in order to determine web content to provide to the user. The text messages may be authenticated by a message relay server, thereby eliminating the need for the content server to request authentication or identification information from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Ian Lynn, Lodema Margaret Steinbach
  • Messaging service control communicated using short message peer-to-peer protocol fields
    Patent number: 9226122
    Abstract: A network service provider and an application service provider may maintain synchronized states of which users have opted-in and which have opted-out of messaging services. In one implementation, a method may include receiving a text message from a user device and determining, based on a presence of one or more keywords in the text message, whether the text message is an opt-in or opt-out message associated with a messaging service hosted by one or more servers. The method may further include modifying, when it is determined that the text message is an opt-in or opt-out message, the text message to add a parameter to the text message, the parameter having a first value when the text message is an opt-in message and a second value when the text message is an opt-out message. The modified text message may be transmitted towards the one or more servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Lodema Margaret Steinbach, Wei Guang Tan, Zhijian Lin
  • MESSAGING SERVICE CONTROL COMMUNICATED USING SHORT MESSAGE PEER-TO-PEER PROTOCOL FIELDS
    Publication number: 20140273981
    Abstract: A network service provider and an application service provider may maintain synchronized states of which users have opted-in and which have opted-out of messaging services. In one implementation, a method may include receiving a text message from a user device and determining, based on a presence of one or more keywords in the text message, whether the text message is an opt-in or opt-out message associated with a messaging service hosted by one or more servers. The method may further include modifying, when it is determined that the text message is an opt-in or opt-out message, the text message to add a parameter to the text message, the parameter having a first value when the text message is an opt-in message and a second value when the text message is an opt-out message. The modified text message may be transmitted towards the one or more servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CELLCO PARTERNSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS
    Inventors: Lodema Margaret Steinbach, Wei Guang Tan, Zhijian Lin