Patents by Inventor Lonnie Hiroshi Katai

Lonnie Hiroshi Katai 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: 10277749
    Abstract: A mobile device executes an operating system (OS) call manager and an over-the-top (OTT) calling application. The OTT calling application receives a notification for a first OTT call, and notifies the OS call manager of the first OTT call. The OS call manager assigns shared device resources of the mobile device to the first OTT call. The OTT calling application receives a notification for a second OTT call, and sends, to an OTT Telephony Application Server (TAS) without notifying the OS call manager of the second OTT call, a request to switch from the first OTT call to a second OTT call. The OTT calling app identifies the first OTT call as inactive and the second OTT call as active, and allocates the shared device resources assigned to the first OTT call to the second OTT call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Lin Song
  • Publication number: 20180288228
    Abstract: A mobile device executes an operating system (OS) call manager and an over-the-top (OTT) calling application. The OTT calling application receives a notification for a first OTT call, and notifies the OS call manager of the first OTT call. The OS call manager assigns shared device resources of the mobile device to the first OTT call. The OTT calling application receives a notification for a second OTT call, and sends, to an OTT Telephony Application Server (TAS) without notifying the OS call manager of the second OTT call, a request to switch from the first OTT call to a second OTT call. The OTT calling app identifies the first OTT call as inactive and the second OTT call as active, and allocates the shared device resources assigned to the first OTT call to the second OTT call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Lin Song
  • Patent number: 9990105
    Abstract: A user device may provide a graphical user interface which presents content navigation objects, where each content navigation object may be associated with a content item and is presented within a portion of the graphical user interface. The user device may detect an action that corresponds to a content navigation object, and determine whether the detected action is a command to display content options that may be contextually related to the content item associated with the content navigation object. The user device may display the content options by altering the appearance of the content navigation object, receive an action selecting the content option from the displayed content options, and conceal the content options after the action for selecting the content option has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. D'Argenio, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alice Yuan Bain, Kristopher T. Frazier, William Andrew Fish, Richard E. Sodon, Jennifer Yu, Sheryl Soo, Janette Markel, Harry Lawson Kight, Andrew Allen Haskin
  • Patent number: 9648369
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers and receiving, via the user interface, user input indicating selection criteria for recommending content. The selection criteria include an amount of time available to the user. The method includes providing, to a network device, an indication of the selection criteria and receiving, from the network device, information for providing recommended content options based on the selection criteria. The recommended content options are available from different content providers of the multiple content providers. The method includes presenting, to the user and via the interface, the recommended content options in association with the selection criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Michael J. Naggar, Mitch Dornich, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Alison Kay Allen, Nitin Khanna, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Shuchi Patel, Kristi D. Crum
  • Patent number: 9396482
    Abstract: A method includes providing identifying application information associated with a user device in a network. The application information is information associated with at least one application running on the at least one user device. The method may further include identifying data usage information associated with the user device. The data usage information includes information associated with data used by the user device. In addition, the method may include associating the application information and the data usage information to determine application data usage for the user device. The method may also include identifying a data usage plan associated with the user device, and applying the data usage plan in the network based on the application data usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Jack Jianxiu Hao, John F. Gallagher, Michael Oliver, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai
  • Patent number: 9332206
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Publication number: 20160011725
    Abstract: A user device may provide a graphical user interface which presents content navigation objects, where each content navigation object may be associated with a content item and is presented within a portion of the graphical user interface. The user device may detect an action that corresponds to a content navigation object, and determine whether the detected action is a command to display content options that may be contextually related to the content item associated with the content navigation object. The user device may display the content options by altering the appearance of the content navigation object, receive an action selecting the content option from the displayed content options, and conceal the content options after the action for selecting the content option has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael J. D'Argenio, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alice Yuan Bain, Kristopher T. Frazier, William Andrew Fish, Richard E. Sodon, Jennifer Yu, Sheryl Soo, Janette Markel, Harry Lawson Kight, Andrew Allen Haskin
  • Patent number: 8935714
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Publication number: 20130332839
    Abstract: A method includes presenting a user interface providing access to content from multiple content providers and receiving, via the user interface, user input indicating selection criteria for recommending content. The selection criteria include an amount of time available to the user. The method includes providing, to a network device, an indication of the selection criteria and receiving, from the network device, information for providing recommended content options based on the selection criteria. The recommended content options are available from different content providers of the multiple content providers. The method includes presenting, to the user and via the interface, the recommended content options in association with the selection criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: CELLCO PARTNERSHIP D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS, VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Kristopher T. Frazier, Michael J. Naggar, Mitch Dornich, Ashutosh K. Sureka, Alison Kay Allen, Nitin Khanna, Ryan Evans, Rahim Charania, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Shuchi Patel, Kristi D. Crum
  • Publication number: 20130054378
    Abstract: A method includes providing identifying application information associated with a user device in a network. The application information is information associated with at least one application running on the at least one user device. The method may further include identifying data usage information associated with the user device. The data usage information includes information associated with data used by the user device. In addition, the method may include associating the application information and the data usage information to determine application data usage for the user device. The method may also include identifying a data usage plan associated with the user device, and applying the data usage plan in the network based on the application data usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Jack Jianxiu Hao, John F. Gallagher, Michael Oliver, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai
  • Publication number: 20120174145
    Abstract: A method including providing at least one of a television service or an Internet access service to a customer; generating predictive options pertaining to content delivered to the customer, wherein the predictive options correspond to possible future events that could occur with respect to the content; receiving a customer selection of one of the predictive options; determining whether the customer-selected predictive option matches an outcome with respect to the content; and assigning a score to the customer based on whether the selected predictive option successfully or unsuccessfully predicted the outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Kristopher Frazier, Ruchir Rodrigues, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden
  • Publication number: 20120096501
    Abstract: A method including providing television content (TC) to a user; receiving a TC capture request; capturing TC frames based on the TC capture request; displaying to the user one or more TC frames included in the captured TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more TC frames included in the displayed one or more TC frames; receiving a user selection of one or more destinations to send the selected one or more TC frames; and sending the selected one or more TC frames to the one or more destinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Ruchir Rodrigues, Kristopher T. Frazier, Lonnie Hiroshi Katai, Alison Kay Allen, Jayson D. Sellers, John Stanley Chittenden