Patents by Inventor Manuel Avila
Manuel Avila 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).
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Patent number: 9245285Abstract: A content provider provides a content provider and service identification to a collection controller. The collection controller retrieves content provider and service specific service provision characteristics from a user subscription database and sets these service provision characteristics as a filter in a service provision control device to be used in the provision of a service from the content provider to the user equipment. Thus, the content provider, through the retrieved content server & service related characteristics from the user subscriber database, can influence the charging and transmission policies used by service provision control device for providing the service.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Justus Petersson, Avelina Pardo-Blazquez, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Paulus Karremans
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Patent number: 9118730Abstract: A method of delivering data to user terminals connected to an Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network, IP-CAN, wherein the IP-CAN implements a Policy and Charging Control, PCC, architecture. The method comprises caching data within an IP-CAN cache server upon a decision made by a Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF, of the PCC architecture. The cached data is then identified to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function, PCEF, of the PCC architecture. At the PCEF, data requests made by user terminals are monitored and a determination made as to whether or not a request relates to cached data. If a request does relate to cached data, then that cached data is delivered from the IP-CAN cache server to the requesting user terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Susana Fernandez Alonso, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Roberto David Carnero Ros, Ibon Gochi Garcia, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
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Publication number: 20150215219Abstract: A device, DEV, 20, such as a terminal device, comprising a memory 206 and a processor 208, the processor being adapted for executing an operating system, OS 204, whose instructions are stored in the memory, 206, through which OS an application, APP, can further be executed, the application permitting packet data to be provided to or from the device and a server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Ulf Mattsson, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Daniel Mcgillivray
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Patent number: 8995389Abstract: The invention comprises methods and arrangements for Policy Decision Point discovery in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network (IN) comprising a plurality of network elements. The invention introduces a Re-direct Policy Decision (RPDF) Function which can deliver addresses to PDPs associated to a certain Mobile Terminal. The RPDF comprises a memory for storing addresses (APDPA, SPDPA1) of Policy Decision Points and Mobile Terminals. The RPDF makes it possible for a network element, e.g. an application function, a policy enforcement point or another policy decision point, to find a Policy Decision Point associated to the Mobile Terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Tony Larsson, Tor Kvernik, Mattias Lidström, Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Justus Petersson, Henrik Basilier, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20150023218Abstract: Example embodiments are presented herein service session management based on service specific data and a user subscription. Some example embodiments may comprise a user equipment, and corresponding method therein, for monitoring an internet or network access by an identified application. Upon detection, the user equipment may be configured to send service specific data associated with the identified application to an enhanced application server. The enhanced application server may manage a service session based on the service specific data and the user subscription. The management of the service session may allow for a differentiated delivery of service for certain applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Ulf MATTSSON, Victor Manuel AVILA GONZALEZ
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Patent number: 8917600Abstract: A technique for introducing a real-time congestion status in a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) policy decision in a cellular network is presented. A method embodiment performed by the PCRF comprises the steps of obtaining, from one of a Policy Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and a database, at least one cell identifier; sending, to a Performance Manager network element, a request for checking congestion status, the request comprising the at least one cell identifier; receiving, from the Performance Manager network element, a retrieved congestion status for the at least one cell identifier; generating at least one of a QoS Class Identifier and a QoS Profile based on the at least one cell identifier and the received congestion status; and sending, to the PCEF, a message comprising the at least one of the Class Identifier and QoS Profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Roberto David Carnero Ros, Zsolt Kenesi
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Patent number: 8818347Abstract: Example embodiments are presented herein service session management based on service specific data and a user subscription. Some example embodiments may comprise a user equipment, and corresponding method therein, for monitoring an internet or network access by an identified application. Upon detection, the user equipment may be configured to send service specific data associated with the identified application to an enhanced application server. The enhanced application server may manage a service session based on the service specific data and the user subscription. The management of the service session may allow for a differentiated delivery of service for certain applications.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Ulf Mattsson, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez
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Patent number: 8715513Abstract: Disclosed is a compact liquid-liquid separation device useful for the separation of oil and water in hydrocarbon production operations, as well as systems and methods for use thereof. The device includes a separator body of generally vertical pipe having an upper portion and a lower portion, and an inlet to the separator body of generally horizontal pipe in fluid communication with the separator body and attached to the separator body between the upper section and the lower section. The inlet has a round cross-section portion and a reducing area nozzle portion in which the horizontal width of the inlet decreases symmetrically with proximity to the separator body. The vertical interface between the inlet and the separator body has a generally rectangular cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Inventors: Ivan Mantilla, Vasudevan Sampath, Carlos Manuel Avila
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Publication number: 20140018063Abstract: Example embodiments are presented herein service session management based on service specific data and a user subscription. Some example embodiments may comprise a user equipment, and corresponding method therein, for monitoring an internet or network access by an identified application. Upon detection, the user equipment may be configured to send service specific data associated with the identified application to an enhanced application server. The enhanced application server may manage a service session based on the service specific data and the user subscription. The management of the service session may allow for a differentiated delivery of service for certain applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Ulf MATTSSON, Victor Manuel AVILA GONZALEZ
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Patent number: 8611214Abstract: In scenarios where the quality of service is negotiated through a signalling layer whereas the services are actually carried through a bearer layer, application functions at the signalling layer are not always aware of how quality of service is individually accomplished at the bearer layer on a service basis. The invention provides a method and devices whereby events are detected on a service data flow basis at a detection device in the bearer layer and notified towards an application device in the signalling layer via a control device between the signalling and the bearer layer. The list of events to be notified is obtainable at the control device from the application device and is included in Quality of Service related rules, along with service data flow filters. This Quality of Service related rules are provided to the detection device for inspecting individual service data flows in order to detect and notify the indicated events.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Guadalupe Sanchez Santiso, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Maria Belen Pancorbo, Jose Javier Pastor Balbas
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Patent number: 8606893Abstract: In scenarios where service requirements are negotiated through a signalling layer whereas the services are carried out through a bearer layer, control rules are created at a control server logically interposed between the signalling and bearer layers. These control rules are based on service requirements received from an entity in the signalling layer, and are installed in an entity in the bearer layer for a bearer established therein. However, not all the service requirements negotiated through the signalling layer can be supported at the bearer layer by any user's equipment. The invention provides for a method and devices whereby the control server can create control rules based on the service requirements received from the signalling layer and also based on capabilities of the user's equipment currently used by the user, and whereby the control rules are installed for a currently established bearer or for a new subsequent bearer further established, depending on these control rules.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Guadalupe Sanchez Santisto, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Belén Pancorbo Marcos, Jose Javier Pastor Balbás, Victor Manuel Ávila González
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Publication number: 20130272197Abstract: A technique for introducing a real-time congestion status in a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) policy decision in a cellular network is presented. A method embodiment performed by the PCRF comprises the steps of obtaining, from one of a Policy Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) and a database, at least one cell identifier; sending, to a Performance Manager network element, a request for checking congestion status, the request comprising the at least one cell identifier; receiving, from the Performance Manager network element, a retrieved congestion status for the at least one cell identifier; generating at least one of a QoS Class Identifier and a QoS Profile based on the at least one cell identifier and the received congestion status; and sending, to the PCEF, a message comprising the at least one of the Class Identifier and QoS Profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Roberto David Carnero Ros, Zsolt Kenesi
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Publication number: 20130239816Abstract: Disclosed is a compact liquid-liquid separation device useful for the separation of oil and water in hydrocarbon production operations, as well as systems and methods for use thereof. The device includes a separator body of generally vertical pipe having an upper portion and a lower portion, and an inlet to the separator body of generally horizontal pipe in fluid communication with the separator body and attached to the separator body between the upper section and the lower section. The inlet has a round cross-section portion and a reducing area nozzle portion in which the horizontal width of the inlet decreases symmetrically with proximity to the separator body. The vertical interface between the inlet and the separator body has a generally rectangular cross-section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Ivan Mantilla, Vasudevan Sampath, Carlos Manuel Avila
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Publication number: 20130054800Abstract: A method of delivering data to user terminals connected to an Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network, IP-CAN, wherein the IP-CAN implements a Policy and Charging Control, PCC, architecture. The method comprises caching data within an IP-CAN cache server upon a decision made by a Policy and Charging Rules Function, PCRF, of the PCC architecture. The cached data is then identified to a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function, PCEF, of the PCC architecture. At the PCEF, data requests made by user terminals are monitored and a determination made as to whether or not a request relates to cached data. If a request does relate to cached data, then that cached data is delivered from the IP-CAN cache server to the requesting user terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)Inventors: Susana Fernandez Alonso, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Roberto David Carnero Ros, Ibon Gochi Garcia, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos
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Patent number: 8064891Abstract: At present, the existing mechanisms for authorizing a user of a service network operator to access a service provided by a third party service provider are valid for most of the existing services based on a request and an answer, but for transactional services, those where a service delivery implies several transactions, the existing techniques present serious limitations for the operators to fully control the progression of services. To overcome this limitation, the invention provides means and methods to control the progression of a service, service which requires a plurality of transactions, at a first domain where the service has been authorized while the user is using said service provided by a second domain, as well as a verification mechanism for verifying the use of the service between the service network operator and the service provider.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2003Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Susana Fernandez-Alonso, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20110235510Abstract: In scenarios where the quality of service is negotiated through a signalling layer whereas the services are actually carried through a bearer layer, application functions at the signalling layer are not always aware of how quality of service is individually accomplished at the bearer layer on a service basis. The invention provides a method and devices whereby events are detected on a service data flow basis at a detection device in the bearer layer and notified towards an application device in the signalling layer via a control device between the signalling and the bearer layer. The list of events to be notified is obtainable at the control device from the application device and is included in Quality of Service related rules, along with service data flow filters. This Quality of Service related rules are provided to the detection device for inspecting individual service data flows in order to detect and notify the indicated events.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Guadalupe Sanchez Santiso, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Maria Belen Pancorbo, Jose Javier Pastor Balbas
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Patent number: 7940659Abstract: In scenarios where the quality of service is negotiated through a signalling layer whereas the services are actually carried through a bearer layer, application functions at the signalling layer are not always aware of how quality of service is individually accomplished at the bearer layer on a service basis. The invention provides a method and devices whereby events are detected on a service data flow basis at a detection device in the bearer layer and notified towards an application device in the signalling layer via a control device between the signalling and the bearer layer. The list of events to be notified is obtainable at the control device from the application device and is included in Quality of Service related rules, along with service data flow filters. This Quality of Service related rules are provided to the detection device for inspecting individual service data flows in order to detect and notify the indicated events.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Guadalupe Sanchez Santiso, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Maria Belen Pancorbo, Jose Javier Pastor Balbas
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Patent number: 7848737Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of detecting possible fraud situations where there may be a plurality of access sessions simultaneously active in a user session for a user, the access sessions established through a number of access points of one or more wireless local area networks (WLAN). Therefore, the present invention provides for a mechanism, which includes means and method, whereby user sessions suspicious of fraud are reported to the operator network holding a subscription for the user. Moreover, the present invention also facilitates support for Single Sign-On services for a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Luis Ramos Robles, Susana Fernandez Alonso, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20100217877Abstract: The present invention relates in general to a method and apparatus concerning access policy and charging control. In particular it relates to enhanced service information for access policy and charging control. A media stream management of a service session between a first and a second electronic communication device comprise obtaining identity address data related to the first electronic communication device step, obtaining policy information associated with the second electronic communication device step, and performing a media stream management control step involving the identity address data related to the first electronic communication device and the policy information related to the second electronic communication device such that media streams between the first electronic communication device and the second electronic communication device can be controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2007Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Per Willars, Henrik Albertsson, Victor Manuel Avila Gonzalez, Ana Maria Lopez Nieto, Belen Pancorbo Marcos, Jose Javier Pastor Balbas, Guadalupe Sanchez Santiso
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Patent number: 7762410Abstract: A modular display rack capable of multi-unit stacking and simultaneously accommodating trays in either a gravitational-feed orientation or a non-gravitational-feed orientation. A preferred embodiment comprises: a first tray and a second tray, wherein each one of said trays comprises a left tray panel, a right tray panel, a front tray panel, a rear tray panel, and a bottom tray panel; a first pillar, a second pillar, and a third pillar; wherein the second tray is aligned above the first tray, and the first and second trays are spaced apart and secured in their relative positions by shared attachment to the first, second, and third pillars such that: the first pillar is adjacent to the trays' left tray panels; the second pillar is adjacent to the trays' right tray panels; and the third pillar is adjacent to the trays' rear tray panels.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Sabritas, S. de R.L. de C.V.Inventors: Maria Alejandra Noble Colin, Juan Manuel Avila Barriga