Patents by Inventor Sheldon Kent Meredith

Sheldon Kent Meredith 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: 10470024
    Abstract: A mobile emergency response network may be utilized to respond to emergencies. Emergency response resources may be selected and deployed through the use of network communications between user equipment and network elements. In an example configuration, a mobile emergency response network may receive emergency data, determine an emergency is occurring, determine a resource requirement for the emergency, identify a mobile device associated with a user who meets the resource requirement, and send a request to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Juliette Zerick
  • Patent number: 10462154
    Abstract: A method of transferring information between subscribers associated with a communication service is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first handle address associated with a first subscriber device, in which the first subscriber device transfers information to a group of subscriber devices, each of the group of subscriber devices is linked to different handle addresses, and each of the different handle addresses is included in a group of handle addresses. The method also includes determining whether the first handle address is included in the group of handle addresses, transferring information from the first subscriber device to the group of subscriber devices in response to the first handle address being included in the group of handle addresses, and verifying that the transferred information was received by the group of subscriber devices. A corresponding system and computer-readable device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Mark Austin
  • Patent number: 10452652
    Abstract: In one example, a processor receives a structured query, parses the structured query into components, and stores the structured query, the components, and at least one attribute regarding the structured query in a first query record of a query record storage platform, the at least one attribute comprising a user identification of a user generating the structured query. The processor may then receive a search associated with the query record storage platform, where the search includes at least one parameter, and where the at least one parameter specifies at least one of the structured query, at least one of the components, or at least one of the at least one attribute regarding the structured query, and return the first query record in response to the search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ivan Dario Hernandez Sanchez, Roderic Paulk, Sheldon Kent Meredith
  • Publication number: 20190320391
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method, for determining power requirements according to a data connection with a remote server that provides services to support execution of a remote application that corresponds to a local application that executes on the mobile device. The power requirements are compared to a remaining charge of a battery of the mobile device to obtain a comparison, and the remote application, in lieu of the local application that executes on the mobile device according to the comparison. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill, Ivan Rasnik, Radhika Gouni
  • Patent number: 10436876
    Abstract: A method for determining the location of a mobile device that has placed an emergency communication includes determining that an emergency communication has been made by a mobile device having a wireless radio and receiving, from the mobile device, an identifier of a first device detected by the wireless radio. If the first device is not fixed, the method includes sending a first location request to the first device to determine a first location of the first device. The method also includes determining a location of the mobile device based upon the first location and providing the mobile device location to a recipient of the emergency communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill
  • Publication number: 20190253425
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: SHELDON KENT MEREDITH, WILLIAM COTTRILL, BRANDON B. HILLIARD
  • Patent number: 10375644
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method, for determining whether to run a local application or a remote application, including retrieving, by a processor of a mobile device, metadata for a remote application that executes on the mobile device, determining power requirements from the metadata for a data connection with a remote server that provides services to support execution of the remote application, calculating if the power requirements for the data connection exceeds a remaining charge of a battery of the mobile device, and executing the remote application responsive to the power requirements for the data connection being less than the remaining charge of the battery. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill, Ivan Rasnik, Radhika Gouni
  • Publication number: 20190230617
    Abstract: A mobile communication device collects and reports location data associated with itself and with mobile communication devices within a proximity. The mobile communication device determines its location and detects the presence of another communication device located within the proximity of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device determines a location of the other mobile communication device. The mobile communication device reports its location and the location of the other mobile communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith
  • Publication number: 20190220169
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detect a first user interaction with a control button, disable an initiation of an action for a communication service, detect a second user interaction with the icon, and transmit an identification signal to a second communication device that causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the action for the communication service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, William Cottrill
  • Patent number: 10347234
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement selective suppression of audio emitted from an audio source are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining, at a portable device, data transmitted at a first time by a transmitter associated with an audio source, the data including reference audio data corresponding to a first audio signal to be output by the audio source at a second time after the first time, the data further specifying a time delay corresponding to a difference between the second time and the first time. Disclosed example methods also include generating, based on the reference audio data and the time delay, a suppression audio signal to provide to an audio output driver in communication with a speaker of the portable device to suppress the first audio signal when the first audio signal is output by the audio source at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Jeremy Fix, Mario Kosseifi
  • Publication number: 20190191405
    Abstract: The location of a mobile device may be determined based on information that includes the signal strength of nearby radiation sources. The system may disregard information associated with radiation sources that are determined to be mobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith
  • Publication number: 20190182634
    Abstract: Wanted vehicles (e.g., stolen or the subjects of AMBER alerts) may respond to receipt of broadcast messages identifying the vehicle by vehicle identification number, license plate number, or other identifier (if programmed into the car). The identifier may be broadcast over any public radio station as an embedded digital message, transmitted from police or fire broadcast stations, transmitted from wireless mobility towers, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Francisco Martinez, Biren Parekh, John Pastore
  • Publication number: 20190174318
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for blocking a cloned mobile device by a processor of a network. The processor receives a first registration from a first mobile device at a first location. The first registration includes a device identifier and a phone number. The processor then confirms that a second registration from a second mobile device at a second location includes the device identifier and the phone number and calculates a first fraud score for the first mobile device and a second fraud score for the second mobile device. The processor then determines that the second mobile device is the cloned mobile device, when the second fraud score exceeds the first score, and blocks the cloned mobile device from registering on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
  • Patent number: 10313351
    Abstract: A method includes, after expiration of a first passcode, receiving, at an access point, a first access request from a first device. The first access request may be encrypted based on the first passcode. The method further includes determining whether an identifier of the first device is included in a device list associated with the first passcode. The device list includes identifiers of devices that accessed the access point using encryption based on the first passcode before the expiration of the first passcode. The method also includes, in response to a determination that the identifier of the first device is included in the device list generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode. The method further includes sending the data representing the second passcode to the first device from the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
  • Patent number: 10300965
    Abstract: An aerodynamic drag reduction device for use on an over-the-road cargo vehicle. The vehicle has a prismatically shaped cargo area, which includes a rear face of the cargo area substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel. The device comprises a plurality of resilient prongs arranged along a rear edge of the vehicle body, extending from a respective fixed end secured to the vehicle body rearward in a flow-wise direction beyond the rear edge of the vehicle body to a respective free end. Each prong is separated from an adjacent prong in the plurality, and each is flexible to permit deflection, under the influence of airflow over the vehicle at a predetermined speed, above and below a first plane defined by the surface of the vehicle to which the plurality of prongs is secured. Each prong is further resistant to deflecting in a direction parallel to the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Mario Kosseifi, John Pastore
  • Publication number: 20190143129
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for relaying information from a cardiac pacemaker to an external device. Logic on the pacemaker modulates a heartbeat clock of the pacemaker to encode information onto a blood pressure sequence by adding or subtracting a small subinterval to or from a pulse repetition interval of the pacemaker. A muscle stimulator beats the heart according to the modulated sequence. A monitoring device external to the body monitors the blood pressure to retrieve the encoded information, or message. The encoded information is then decoded to determine the information in the message. This information may concern the pacemaker as well as other devices within the body that communicate with the pacemaker such as blood monitors, etc. Since the message is conveyed via simple modulation of the heart beat intervals, no separate transmitter is required in the pacemaker which would otherwise increase cost and decrease battery life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Brandon B. Hilliard, Mario Kosseifi
  • Publication number: 20190141395
    Abstract: A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing, by a system comprising a processor, a content display configuration corresponding to a plurality of feed selections from a plurality of media content feeds, a plurality of display selections from a plurality of available displays, and a plurality of pairing selections assigning each feed selection of the plurality of feed selections to at least one display selection of the plurality of display selections, and transmitting a plurality of displayable content streams according to the content display configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Jeremy Fix, Zachary Meredith
  • Publication number: 20190141668
    Abstract: Determining a location quality based on base station identification is disclosed. The location quality can be based on an error attributed to a location determined based on historical data related to an identified base station. Application of supplemental data to the historical base station data can improve location quality by reducing the error. Supplemental data can comprise Voronoi data, geographic data, historical UE density data, historical UE timing advance data, or combinations thereof. Voronoi data can be associated with an area less than a service area of the base station. Geographic data can indicate areas where UEs are not likely to be located. UE density data can indicate probably UE locations. Timing advance data can indicate annular regions where a UE should be located. As such, the supplemental data can constrain a location determined for a UE and correspondingly can reduce error associated with the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Rick Tipton
  • Publication number: 20190141397
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing first monitoring information associated with an audience that is viewing a presentation, determining an actual audience engagement level by performing pattern recognition on the first monitoring information, comparing the actual audience engagement level with an expected audience engagement level to generate an engagement score for the presentation, and transmitting, to a device, a haptic feedback according to the engagement score during the presenting of the presentation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William C. Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
  • Publication number: 20190141611
    Abstract: Determining a permission for a user equipment to connect to an access point based on the public/private status of the access point device is disclosed. The permission can be based on a historic user equipment density for an area comprising the location of the access point device. The permission can be further based on analysis of an access point device identifier. Analysis of the access point device identifier can be based on comparing a portion of the access point device identifier to a term associated with either a public status or a private status of the access point device. In an embodiment, the access point device identifier can be an SSID, such as for a Wi-Fi network, whereby the SSID can be parsed into keywords that can be compared to the term. Ranking and/or white/blacklisting can be performed based on the analysis of the access point device identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Rick Tipton, Sheldon Kent Meredith, Christine Thomas