Patents by Inventor Tina T. Tran

Tina T. Tran 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).

  • Mobile communication device domain name system redirection
    Patent number: 7958258
    Abstract: A device provides, to a domain name system (DNS), uniform resource locator (URL) information received from a user device, and generates a redirect query when a redirect error is received from the DNS based on the URL information. The device also provides the redirect query to a policy server/accounting database, and receives, from the policy server/accounting database, information indicating that the user device subscribes to a redirect service and subscriber information associated with the user device. A device management database (DMD) query is generated based on the subscriber information, provides the DMD query to a DMD server, and receives, from the DMD server, model information associated with the user device, where the URL information and the model information are used to retrieve redirect information for the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Wing-Cheong V. Yeung, Tina T. Tran
  • MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM REDIRECTION
    Publication number: 20110060838
    Abstract: A device provides, to a domain name system (DNS), uniform resource locator (URL) information received from a user device, and generates a redirect query when a redirect error is received from the DNS based on the URL information. The device also provides the redirect query to a policy server/accounting database, and receives, from the policy server/accounting database, information indicating that the user device subscribes to a redirect service and subscriber information associated with the user device. A device management database (DMD) query is generated based on the subscriber information, provides the DMD query to a DMD server, and receives, from the DMD server, model information associated with the user device, where the URL information and the model information are used to retrieve redirect information for the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventors: Wing-Cheong V. Yeung, Tina T. Tran