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).

  • Publication number: 20260156443
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Vikas Sanathana Murthy, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20260135813
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2026
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
  • Patent number: 12592893
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
  • Publication number: 20250358232
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Srinath Gundavelli, Shree N. Murthy, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Ravi Kiran Guntupalli
  • Publication number: 20250097209
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Patent number: 12231421
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20250031277
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Sri Gundavelli, Mark Grayson, Brian Donald Hart, Matthew Stephen MacPherson, Pradeep Kumar Kathail
  • Patent number: 11856504
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20230388288
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Patent number: 11765153
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Patent number: 11438824
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20220248302
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20220131853
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Patent number: 11258779
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20210274426
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Bart A. Brinckman, Matthew Stephen MacPherson
  • Publication number: 20210218727
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Malcolm Muir Smith, Bart Brinckman, Mark Grayson, Jerome Henry, Matthew Stephen MacPherson