Patents by Inventor Mitchell B. Oliver

Mitchell B. Oliver 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: 20030143990
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying an interactive screen, such as an end-user license agreement or verification form, on the graphic display of a wireless device when the wireless device connects to a network server on a wireless network and attempts to access or download software applications and data. The user of the wireless device must then affirmatively interact with the interactive screen in order to access or download a software application or data from the network server. The interactive screen can be transmitted from the network server where the wireless device seeks to access or download an application or data, or can be transmitted from a separate server to the wireless device. The records of the wireless device-server interactions can be stored on a network server or other data stores on the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Mazen Chmaytelli, Mitchell B. Oliver, Stephen A. Sprigg
  • Publication number: 20030078886
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for tracking billable events occurring on wireless devices on a wireless network and billing the appropriate parties. The billable events occur from the end-users of the wireless devices selectively communicating with other computer devices across the wireless network and downloading and executing software applications thereupon. The billable event data is ultimately gathered at a server on the wireless network from which billing for the wireless device billable events can be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Gerald Horel, Julie Yu, Mazen Chmaytelli, Michelle Klein, Vicki Mealer, Mitchell B. Oliver
  • Publication number: 20030060189
    Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution and controls the risk of providing a test environment associated with the testing of applications. Test enabled permissions are created and distributed to selected application test entities. A management function is used to aid in distributing the test-enabled permissions. The risk is controlled by providing closer scrutiny of the identity of the test entity prior to distributing a test enabled permission to the test entity, providing expiration times associated with the test enabled permissions, and limiting the number of test enabled permissions distributed. The management function tracks the distribution of the test-enabled permissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Mazen Chmaytelli, Mitchell B. Oliver, Laurence Lundblade
  • Publication number: 20030032406
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling software applications on one or more wireless devices where each wireless device is in selective communication with one or more application managing servers over a wireless network. Each wireless device has one or more selectively executable resident software applications and at least one software application requires a valid license for each execution, and upon the attempted execution of a software application, the wireless device determines if a license is present. If a license is not present, the wireless device selectively prompts, either automatically or at the direction of the user of the wireless device, an application managing server for transmission of a license, receives the transmitted license, and installs the license on the wireless device such that the software application is again licensed and executable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Richard Wayne Gardner, Stephen A. Sprigg, Phil Tien Nguyen, Mitchell B. Oliver, Eric J. Lekven
  • Publication number: 20030033209
    Abstract: A system and method for the provision of downloadable subscription-based software applications to one or more wireless devices where the applications are downloadable from one or more application download servers across a wireless network. An accounting module receives subscription-based application download data from the one or more application download servers for each subscription-based application downloaded by a wireless device, and subscription-based application deletion data from each wireless device that has deleted a subscription-based application. The accounting module accounts for the use of the subscribed software applications based upon the subscription-based software application download data and subscription-based application deletion data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Richard Wayne Gardner, Stephen A. Sprigg, Phil Tien Nguyen, Mitchell B. Oliver, Eric J. Lekven
  • Publication number: 20030032417
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the deleting and reloading of software application components on a wireless device, such as a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant, pager, or other computer platform. The wireless device has one or more resident executable software applications wherein each application has one or more application components and application-associated data, such as software licenses and user-specific data. The wireless device selectively deletes one or more application components of the resident software applications without loss of the application-associated data to clear resources on the wireless device, and selectively prompts an application download server across a wireless network to transmit deleted application components needed to be reinstalled on the wireless device to execute the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Richard Wayne Gardner, Stephen A. Sprigg, Phil Tien Nguyen, Mitchell B. Oliver, Eric J. Lekven
  • Publication number: 20020107706
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for the distribution and billing associated with downloading data to a wireless device. In one embodiment, a distribution center having a Unified Application Management (UAM) system performs much of the processing intensive tasks associated with downloading applications to a wireless device. A server located at the carrier facility, e.g., an Application Download Server (ADS), performs that minimal processing necessary to download relevant application information and record transaction data. In this embodiment, the ADS does not contain a relational database and communicates transaction data and information associated with applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The structure of the XML files used for this communication may further be optimized to only require one-pass processing thus minimizing the processing requirements of the ADS. A transaction server processes transaction data for billing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Mitchell B. Oliver, Mazen Chmaytelli, Jerry Horel, Vicki Mealer, Matthew Small
  • Publication number: 20020107795
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for the distribution and billing associated with downloading data to a wireless device. In one embodiment, a distribution center having a Unified Application Management (UAM) system performs much of the processing intensive tasks associated with downloading applications to a wireless device. A server located at the carrier facility, e.g., an Application Download Server (ADS), performs that minimal processing necessary to download relevant application information and record transaction data. In this embodiment, the ADS does not contain a relational database and communicates transaction data and information associated with applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The structure of the XML files used for this communication may further be optimized to only require one-pass processing thus minimizing the processing requirements of the ADS. A transaction server processes transaction data for billing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Brian Minear, Mitchell B. Oliver, Mazen Chmaytelli, Jerry Horel, Phil Nguyen, Julie Yu