Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Will
Thomas J. Will 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: 11411773Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for storing content from an endpoint device in a network cache. For example, a processor receives a security policy for the endpoint device defining a type of content for storing in the network cache, and determines that traffic from the endpoint device includes content of the content type for storing in the network cache. When it is determined that the traffic includes the content of the content type for storing in the network cache, the processor instantiates the network cache, stores the content in the network cache, and sends a notification to a designated device. The notification includes at least one parameter associated with the content. The processor further receives a decision from the designated device and performs a task regarding the content in response to the decision.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Thomas J. Will
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Publication number: 20200336335Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for storing content from an endpoint device in a network cache. For example, a processor receives a security policy for the endpoint device defining a type of content for storing in the network cache, and determines that traffic from the endpoint device includes content of the content type for storing in the network cache. When it is determined that the traffic includes the content of the content type for storing in the network cache, the processor instantiates the network cache, stores the content in the network cache, and sends a notification to a designated device. The notification includes at least one parameter associated with the content. The processor further receives a decision from the designated device and performs a task regarding the content in response to the decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Thomas J. Will
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Patent number: 10700894Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for storing content from an endpoint device in a network cache. For example, a processor receives a security policy for the endpoint device defining a type of content for storing in the network cache, and determines that traffic from the endpoint device includes content of the content type for storing in the network cache. When it is determined that the traffic includes the content of the content type for storing in the network cache, the processor instantiates the network cache, stores the content in the network cache, and sends a notification to a designated device. The notification includes at least one parameter associated with the content. The processor further receives a decision from the designated device and performs a task regarding the content in response to the decision.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Erie Lai Har Lau, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Thomas J. Will
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Patent number: 10469539Abstract: A network for delivering application level multimedia services includes simple, application-level switches and rules managers. Each application-level switch includes rules defining message edits and selections of message destinations. The rules managers operate to manage the rules. Network functions process messages on the application level, and include operation of one or more rules managers and operation of an application-level switch. The network function is performed by the switch application by performing application level message processing according to rules managed by the at least one of the plurality of rules managers. The application level switches together resolve a requested identity to one or more routable addresses, enabling the network to route a message.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Thomas J. Will, Larry B. Pearson
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Patent number: 10368242Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Venson Shaw, Thomas J Will
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Publication number: 20180278656Abstract: A network for delivering application level multimedia services includes simple, application-level switches and rules managers. Each application-level switch includes rules defining message edits and selections of message destinations. The rules managers operate to manage the rules. Network functions process messages on the application level, and include operation of one or more rules managers and operation of an application-level switch. The network function is performed by the switch application by performing application level message processing according to rules managed by the at least one of the plurality of rules managers. The application level switches together resolve a requested identity to one or more routable addresses, enabling the network to route a message.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Thomas J. Will, Larry B. Pearson
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Patent number: 10015201Abstract: A network for delivering application level multimedia services includes simple, application-level switches and rules managers. Each application-level switch includes rules defining message edits and selections of message destinations. The rules managers operate to manage the rules. Network functions process messages on the application level, and include operation of one or more rules managers and operation of an application-level switch. The network function is performed by the switch application by performing application level message processing according to rules managed by the at least one of the plurality of rules managers. The application level switches together resolve a requested identity to one or more routable addresses, enabling the network to route a message.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Thomas J. Will, Larry B. Pearson
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Publication number: 20180070235Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Venson Shaw, Thomas J. Will
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Publication number: 20170353501Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for storing content from an endpoint device in a network cache. For example, a processor receives a security policy for the endpoint device defining a type of content for storing in the network cache, and determines that traffic from the endpoint device includes content of the content type for storing in the network cache. When it is determined that the traffic includes the content of the content type for storing in the network cache, the processor instantiates the network cache, stores the content in the network cache, and sends a notification to a designated device. The notification includes at least one parameter associated with the content. The processor further receives a decision from the designated device and performs a task regarding the content in response to the decision.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Erie Lai Har LAU, Sangar DOWLATKHAH, Thomas J. WILL
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Patent number: 9832645Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Venson Shaw, Thomas J Will
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Publication number: 20170118646Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: SANGAR DOWLATKHAH, VENSON SHAW, THOMAS J. WILL
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Patent number: 9560525Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, LPInventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Venson Shaw, Thomas J Will
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Publication number: 20170006134Abstract: A network for delivering application level multimedia services includes simple, application-level switches and rules managers. Each application-level switch includes rules defining message edits and selections of message destinations. The rules managers operate to manage the rules. Network functions process messages on the application level, and include operation of one or more rules managers and operation of an application-level switch. The network function is performed by the switch application by performing application level message processing according to rules managed by the at least one of the plurality of rules managers. The application level switches together resolve a requested identity to one or more routable addresses, enabling the network to route a message.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Thomas J. Will, Larry B. Pearson
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Publication number: 20150373539Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising authenticating, by a server comprising a processor, a communication device to a first communication network, in accordance with authentication information stored in a first repository of the first communication network. The method also comprises determining, by the server, that a second communication network is accessible to the communication device. The method further comprises providing, by the server, the authentication information to a second repository of the second communication network in accordance with the determining, wherein the providing is performed independently of a request from the second communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Venson Shaw, Thomas J. Will