Patents by Inventor Timothy C. BLEIDORN

Timothy C. BLEIDORN 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: 11936617
    Abstract: Systems and network devices configured to use Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) to provide different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN). A network device (e.g., default router, etc.) may determine whether a UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on a link-layer address of the UE device. The network device send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a special prefix in response to determining that the UE device is eligible to receive special treatment. The network device may send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a base prefix for the LAN in response to determining that the UE device is not eligible to receive special treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Erez Jordan Gottlieb
  • Publication number: 20230216827
    Abstract: Systems and network devices configured to use Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) to provide different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN). A network device (e.g., default router, etc.) may determine whether a UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on a link-layer address of the UE device. The network device send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a special prefix in response to determining that the UE device is eligible to receive special treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy C. BLEIDORN, Erez Jordan GOTTLIEB
  • Patent number: 11695729
    Abstract: Systems and network devices configured to use Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) to provide different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN). A network device (e.g., default router, etc.) may determine whether a UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on a link-layer address of the UE device. The network device send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a special prefix in response to determining that the UE device is eligible to receive special treatment. The network device may send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a base prefix for the LAN in response to determining that the UE device is not eligible to receive special treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Erez Jordan Gottlieb
  • Patent number: 11652785
    Abstract: Systems and network devices configured to use Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) to provide different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN). A network device (e.g., default router, etc.) may determine whether a UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on a link-layer address of the UE device. The network device send the UE device a solicited unicast router advertisement that includes a special prefix in response to determining that the UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on the link-layer address. The network device may send the UE device a solicited unicast router advertisement that includes a base prefix in response to determining that the UE device is not eligible to receive special treatment based on the link-layer address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Erez Jordan Gottlieb
  • Patent number: 11601811
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for instantiating both a private network service (PrNS) gateway virtual network function (VNF) and a public network service (PuNS) gateway VNF for a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a PrNS and communicatively attached a public WiFi network allow users to access the same set of feature-rich network services (including layer 2 services) when connected through a public hotspot WiFi network as when connected through a home or local area network WiFi network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Cheryl A. Warne, Shane B. Newberg, Christopher J. Teague
  • Patent number: 11522980
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for providing a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a private network service (PrNS) and communicatively attached a public WiFi network in a remote market being serviced by a different headend than the UE device's home network with public or private network services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy C. Bleidorn
  • Publication number: 20220353234
    Abstract: Systems and network devices configured to use Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC) to provide different internet protocol (IP) address information to user equipment (UE) devices that are connected to the same local area network (LAN). A network device (e.g., default router, etc.) may determine whether a UE device is eligible to receive special treatment based on a link-layer address of the UE device. The network device send the UE device an unicast router advertisement that includes a special prefix in response to determining that the UE device is eligible to receive special treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy C. BLEIDORN, Erez Jordan GOTTLIEB
  • Publication number: 20210385730
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for instantiating both a private network service (PrNS) gateway virtual network function (VNF) and a public network service (PuNS) gateway VNF for a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a PrNS and communicatively attached a public WiFi network allow users to access the same set of feature-rich network services (including layer 2 services) when connected through a public hotspot WiFi network as when connected through a home or local area network WiFi network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy C. BLEIDORN, Cheryl A. WARNE, Shane B. NEWBERG, Christopher J. TEAGUE
  • Patent number: 11134431
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for instantiating both a private network service (PrNS) gateway virtual network function (VNF) and a public network service (PuNS) gateway VNF for a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a PrNS and communicatively attached a public WiFi network allow users to access the same set of feature-rich network services (including layer 2 services) when connected through a public hotspot WiFi network as when connected through a home or local area network WiFi network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Cheryl A. Warne, Shane B. Newberg, Christopher J. Teague
  • Patent number: 11075877
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for performing targeted filtering of network traffic generated by user equipment (UE) devices connected to a customer premise device (CPE) in a communication system that includes a distributed residential gateway. A broadband network gateway may be configured to identify a UE device in a local area network (LAN) associated with the CPE that is compromised, misconfigured, or operating outside normal communication parameters. The broadband network gateway may send a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) force renew message via a wide area network (WAN) to the identified UE device in the LAN, generate a DHCP offer message that presents a new Internet protocol (IP) address assignment that is within a range of IP addresses included in a layer 2/3 access list, and send the generated DHCP offer message to the UE device to quarantine the UE device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy C. Bleidorn, Cheryl A. Warne, Shane B. Newberg, Christopher J. Teague
  • Publication number: 20210037449
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for instantiating both a private network service (PrNS) gateway virtual network function (VNF) and a public network service (PuNS) gateway VNF for a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a PrNS and communicatively attached a public WiFi network allow users to access the same set of feature-rich network services (including layer 2 services) when connected through a public hotspot WiFi network as when connected through a home or local area network WiFi network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Timothy C. BLEIDORN, Cheryl A. WARNE, Shane B. NEWBERG, Christopher J. TEAGUE
  • Publication number: 20210037378
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for providing a user equipment (UE) device that is associated with a private network service (PrNS) and communicatively attached a public WiFi network in a remote market being serviced by a different headend than the UE device's home network with public or private network services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Timothy C. BLEIDORN
  • Publication number: 20200228491
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for performing targeted filtering of network traffic generated by user equipment (UE) devices connected to a customer premise device (CPE) in a communication system that includes a distributed residential gateway. A broadband network gateway may be configured to identify a UE device in a local area network (LAN) associated with the CPE that is compromised, misconfigured, or operating outside normal communication parameters. The broadband network gateway may send a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) force renew message via a wide area network (WAN) to the identified UE device in the LAN, generate a DHCP offer message that presents a new Internet protocol (IP) address assignment that is within a range of IP addresses included in a layer 2/3 access list, and send the generated DHCP offer message to the UE device to quarantine the UE device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy C. BLEIDORN, Cheryl A. WARNE, Shane B. NEWBERG, Christopher J. TEAGUE