Patents by Inventor Toby Bearden
Toby Bearden 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: 10728056Abstract: A method of redirecting traffic on a network includes receiving a subscriber request to use a parental control service, assigning to the subscriber's access device an Internet protocol (IP) address from a block of addresses reserved for the service, receiving a transaction, determining that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirecting the transaction to a parental control device on the network. A network-based parental control system includes an access device for an account that uses a parental control service, a dynamic host configuration protocol server that assigns to the access device an IP address from a block of addresses reserved for the parental control service, a parental control policy device, and a router that receives a transaction from the access device, determines that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirects the transaction to the parental control policy device.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: David Harp, Toby Bearden, Jason M. Godfrey
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Patent number: 10155163Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Publication number: 20180056185Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Patent number: 9839847Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Patent number: 9832283Abstract: Quality of service and security are facilitated via functional classification of devices within a network. One method includes receiving, by a first device, notification information of a presence of a second device among the devices of the network, wherein the devices are configured to communicate information about events associated with respective operations of the devices; and generating, by the first device, first information indicative of an identity of and a functional classification of a function of the second device. The method also includes initiating, by the first device to a controller within the network, a transmission of second information for association of third information indicative of the functional classification of the function of the second device with fourth information generated by the second device. The functional classification of the function of the second device is associated with potential impact of failure of the second device.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Jennifer Morovitz, Toby Bearden
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Publication number: 20170078440Abstract: Quality of service and security are facilitated via functional classification of devices within a network. One method includes receiving, by a first device, notification information of a presence of a second device among the devices of the network, wherein the devices are configured to communicate information about events associated with respective operations of the devices; and generating, by the first device, first information indicative of an identity of and a functional classification of a function of the second device. The method also includes initiating, by the first device to a controller within the network, a transmission of second information for association of third information indicative of the functional classification of the function of the second device with fourth information generated by the second device. The functional classification of the function of the second device is associated with potential impact of failure of the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Jennifer Morovitz, Toby Bearden
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Publication number: 20170033947Abstract: A method of redirecting traffic on a network includes receiving a subscriber request to use a parental control service, assigning to the subscriber's access device an Internet protocol (IP) address from a block of addresses reserved for the service, receiving a transaction, determining that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirecting the transaction to a parental control device on the network. A network-based parental control system includes an access device for an account that uses a parental control service, a dynamic host configuration protocol server that assigns to the access device an IP address from a block of addresses reserved for the parental control service, a parental control policy device, and a router that receives a transaction from the access device, determines that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirects the transaction to the parental control policy device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: DAVID HARP, TOBY BEARDEN, JASON M. GODFREY
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Patent number: 9544395Abstract: Quality of service and security are facilitated via functional classification of devices within a network. One method includes receiving, by a first device of devices of a network, notification information of a presence of a second device among the devices of the network, wherein the devices are configured to communicate information about events associated with respective operations of the devices; and generating, by the first device, first information indicative of an identity of and a functional classification of a function of the second device. The method also includes initiating, by the first device to a controller within the network, a transmission of second information for association of third information indicative of the functional classification of the function of the second device with data generated by the second device. The functional classification of the function of the second device is associated with potential impact of failure of the second device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Jennifer Morovitz, Toby Bearden
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Publication number: 20170001117Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Patent number: 9497164Abstract: A method of redirecting traffic on a network includes receiving a subscriber request to use a parental control service, assigning to the subscriber's access device an Internet protocol (IP) address from a block of addresses reserved for the service, receiving a transaction, determining that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirecting the transaction to a parental control device on the network. A network-based parental control system includes an access device for an account that uses a parental control service, a dynamic host configuration protocol server that assigns to the access device an IP address from a block of addresses reserved for the parental control service, a parental control policy device, and a router that receives a transaction from the access device, determines that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirects the transaction to the parental control policy device.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: David Harp, Toby Bearden, Jason M. Godfrey
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Publication number: 20160315973Abstract: Methods and apparatus to process network communications are disclosed. Example methods include determining, at a first edge router of an access network, if at least one of a source address or a destination address of a network communication is associated with a customer to receive a network-based service and forwarding the network communication from the first edge router to network equipment within the access network for routing to the destination address when the at least one of the source address or the destination address is not associated with the customer who is to receive the network-based service. Further methods include forwarding the network communication from the first edge router to a policy enforcement point within the access network when the at least one of the source address or the destination address is associated with the customer to receive the network-based service.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: David Harp, Toby Bearden, Jason Matthew Godfrey
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Patent number: 9463384Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Publication number: 20160105531Abstract: Quality of service and security are facilitated via functional classification of devices within a network. One method includes receiving, by a first device of devices of a network, notification information of a presence of a second device among the devices of the network, wherein the devices are configured to communicate information about events associated with respective operations of the devices; and generating, by the first device, first information indicative of an identity of and a functional classification of a function of the second device. The method also includes initiating, by the first device to a controller within the network, a transmission of second information for association of third information indicative of the functional classification of the function of the second device with data generated by the second device. The functional classification of the function of the second device is associated with potential impact of failure of the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Jennifer Morovitz, Toby Bearden
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Publication number: 20140329580Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Patent number: 8801523Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele Smith
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Publication number: 20120231875Abstract: Methods, systems, and products bookmark gaming applications. When a player wishes to pause a gaming application, a bookmark may be created. The bookmark identifies a location in the gaming application at which play is paused. Play may then be resumed from the bookmark, whether at a same device or at a different device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Patent number: 8197345Abstract: Methods, systems, and products provide centralized control of gaming applications. A request is received from a destination to store a status of a gaming application associated with a username. A bookmark is received that identifies a logical location in the gaming application. The bookmark is associated to the username and to the gaming application. A request is received for the status of the gaming application associated with the username. A query is made for the bookmark associated with the gaming application and with the username. The bookmark is sent to the destination, such that the destination may resume the gaming application from the bookmark.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith
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Publication number: 20120023562Abstract: Example systems and methods to route network communications for network-based services are disclosed. An example method includes receiving network communications; determining if at least one of a source address or a destination address of the received network communications is associated with a customer to receive a network-based service; forwarding the network communications to a policy enforcement point if the at least one of the source address or the destination address is associated with the customer; determining if the forwarded network communications violates a policy selectively associated with the customer; and forwarding the network communications from the policy enforcement point to the destination address if the network communications is not in violation of the policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: David Harp, Toby Bearden, Jason Matthew Godfrey
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Publication number: 20110292938Abstract: A method of redirecting traffic on a network includes receiving a subscriber request to use a parental control service, assigning to the subscriber's access device an Internet protocol (IP) address from a block of addresses reserved for the service, receiving a transaction, determining that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirecting the transaction to a parental control device on the network. A network-based parental control system includes an access device for an account that uses a parental control service, a dynamic host configuration protocol server that assigns to the access device an IP address from a block of addresses reserved for the parental control service, a parental control policy device, and a router that receives a transaction from the access device, determines that the transaction is from an address in the block, and redirects the transaction to the parental control policy device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: David Harp, Toby Bearden, Jason M. Godfrey
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Publication number: 20110105232Abstract: Methods, systems, and products provide centralized control of gaming applications. A request is received from a destination to store a status of a gaming application associated with a username. A bookmark is received that identifies a logical location in the gaming application. The bookmark is associated to the username and to the gaming application. A request is received for the status of the gaming application associated with the username. A query is made for the bookmark associated with the gaming application and with the username. The bookmark is sent to the destination, such that the destination may resume the gaming application from the bookmark.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Inventors: Jason Godfrey, Toby Bearden, Michele L. Smith