Patents by Inventor Matthew Stephen MacPherson
Matthew Stephen MacPherson 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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Publication number: 20260156443Abstract: Provided herein are techniques to facilitate enhancing emergency call signaling to include navigation information for locating an emergency caller in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In at least one embodiment, a method is provided in which, for a wireless device capable of connection to a WLAN that has initiated emergency communications, obtaining via authentication of the wireless device for connection to the WLAN, map information that indicates an entrance for a structure at which the wireless device is located and a target location of the structure at which the wireless device is located; storing the map information in association with one or more index elements; and upon obtaining an emergency call for the wireless device including the one or more index elements, providing the map information to a service or device to enable navigation of emergency personnel to the target location of the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2024Publication date: June 4, 2026Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Vikas Sanathana Murthy, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20260135813Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request including an indication of a user device profile; determining a traffic identifier to associate with the user device profile; binding the traffic identifier to a network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the user device profile; and providing the traffic identifier to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2026Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
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Patent number: 12592893Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request including an indication of a user device profile; determining a traffic identifier to associate with the user device profile; binding the traffic identifier to a network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the user device profile; and providing the traffic identifier to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
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Publication number: 20250358232Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: obtaining, at a network device from a user device, a request for a network session, the request including an indication of a user device profile; determining a traffic identifier to associate with the user device profile; binding the traffic identifier to a network policy to be applied to traffic associated with the user device profile; and providing the traffic identifier to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2024Publication date: November 20, 2025Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
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Publication number: 20250097209Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Patent number: 12231421Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20250031277Abstract: In one aspect, a method for enabling EPCS in a network includes receiving a request from a network device to establish a connection to the network, wherein the request indicates an emergency event and at least one user equipment associated with the emergency event; prioritizing, for the network device, access to the network based on the request in accordance with a resource allocation policy comprising a plurality of access levels associated with a plurality of EPCS groups; allocating network resources in accordance with the resource allocation policy to the network device, wherein the one or more network resources are configured to modify a set of attributes of the network device to grant the network device an increased priority related to the emergency event; and transmitting a message to the network device to indicate authorization for the network device to establish a connection with the network according to the increased priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Sri Gundavelli, Mark Grayson, Brian Donald Hart, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Pradeep Kumar Kathail
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Patent number: 11856504Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20230388288Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Patent number: 11765153Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Patent number: 11438824Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20220248302Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20220131853Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Patent number: 11258779Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20210274426Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
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Publication number: 20210218727Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a process of evaluating any number of different identity providers (IDPs) and their respective set of credentials that are used to authenticate corresponding users to assist with the onboarding of the different IDPs in connection with Wi-Fi identity federations. In particular, the process allows a person's electronic identity and attributes (stored across one or more IDPs) to be determined once using a standard. Once trust has been established for the user, that trust can then be utilized across a number of different systems (e.g., Single-sign on). The same trust determination can be used without the need for the authenticity of the user identity to be re-evaluated with each new access request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson