Patents by Inventor William H. Dudley
William H. Dudley 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: 8948795Abstract: A flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable anti-spam facility that operates on a general quanta of data (such as for example a Short Message Service message, a Multimedia Message Service message, an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem message, a Wireless Application Protocol stream, an Electronic Mail message, an Instant Messaging exchange, streaming (audio, video, etc.) data, etc.), innovatively analyzes various attributes of same (such as for example originating address and destination address), and—when an instance of spam is identified—performs one or more remediation activities (such as for example updating a blacklist, updating a greylist, dropping a message, issuing an alert, etc.). The facility may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventor: William H. Dudley
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Patent number: 8788354Abstract: An Operator Charging Gateway (OCG) facility within a Mobile Commerce environment that, among other things, provides a bearer-independent and delivery-agnostic charging platform that, inter alia, (a) uncouples all of the particulars of the delivery of content, services, etc. from the myriad of activities, challenges, etc. of charging and (b) adds substantial value to each of the involved parties (including, for example, Mobile Subscribers, Operators, Merchants, etc.). Within a wireless messaging ecosystem an OCG may leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located, full-featured Value-Added Service Provider.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: SYBASE 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 8751394Abstract: As individuals increasingly engage in different types of transactions they face a growing threat from, possibly among other things, identity theft, financial fraud, information misuse, etc. and the serious consequences or repercussions of same. Leveraging the ubiquitous nature of wireless devices and the popularity of (SMS, MMS, etc.) messaging, an infrastructure that enhances the security of the different types of transactions within which a wireless device user may participate. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Marc R. Landrum, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 8620359Abstract: Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for intelligent and dynamic alternate Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message delivery channels. Occasions may arise where a Mobile Subscriber would like to use their Wireless Device to exchange (for example, MMS) messages but circumstances may prohibit or limit same. On such occasions the MMS messages may be appropriately processed and then routed through one or more alternate message delivery channels such as, possibly inter alia, E-Mail. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Marc Rhone Landrum, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Publication number: 20130303204Abstract: A flexible, extensible, and dynamically configurable anti-spam facility that operates on a general quanta of data (such as for example a Short Message Service message, a Multimedia Message Service message, an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem message, a Wireless Application Protocol stream, an Electronic Mail message, an Instant Messaging exchange, streaming (audio, video, etc.) data, etc.), innovatively analyzes various attributes of same (such as for example originating address and destination address), and—when an instance of spam is identified—performs one or more remediation activities (such as for example updating a blacklist, updating a greylist, dropping a message, issuing an alert, etc.). The facility may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventor: William H. Dudley
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Patent number: 8577398Abstract: Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for enhanced content delivery in new and creative ways. The delivery model leverages the features, capabilities, etc. that are offered by MMS to deliver various types of content (e.g., content that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to display on a wireless device using the wireless device's native facilities) to wireless devices by, possibly inter alia, processing the content (including, possibly among other steps, formatting the content, rendering the content as one or more images, etc.) and subsequently delivering the processed content to a wireless device via MMS. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Michael Timmons, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 8275098Abstract: Architecture and methods to provide an intermediary model for inter-carrier Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) services so that numerous wireless operators can transmit MMS messages between them. The architecture also provides for delivery, at least of notification messages, to those wireless operators who are not part of the overall inter-carrier MMS infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Derek Hung Kit Tam, James C. Farrow, Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Kirk Tsai, William Chu, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 8161192Abstract: An intermediary infrastructure that facilitates the interconnection of multiple IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. The interconnections may span one or more of the IMS logical planes Services Plane, Control Plane, and Network or Transport Plane. The intermediary offers among other things a process, routing, and switching complex that is able to among other things process incoming messages including using a comprehensive routing repository to complete message routing operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 8131282Abstract: A user feedback generation and management capability, operating possibly within a Value-Added Service Provider, provides key feedback (e.g., information, updates, etc.) to a Mobile Subscriber (MS) during, for example, the MS? receipt of rich content on the MS? Wireless Device (WD). The feedback may be conveyed to a MS? WD through, possibly inter alia, one or more Short Message Service messages. Such feedback may, possibly inter alia, provide details as to why certain content might not be received, suggest one or more alternative content delivery means, etc. and thus serve to obviate what would otherwise be (1) a frustrating, disappointing, etc. user experience for the MS and (2) increased customer service costs for the different content and service providers.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Publication number: 20120042097Abstract: Enhanced interoperability (e.g., connectivity, communication, processing, routing, billing, etc.) capabilities are provided through an IP eXchange (IPX) facility that among other things may offer a simple, consolidated, etc. interface mechanism and which may leverage various pools of data to expeditiously process and route a quanta of data (including conventional SMS, MMS, etc. messaging; VoIP and other audio/video data streams; SIP-addressed artifacts; signaling data; voice call data; application data; etc.).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventor: William H. Dudley
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Patent number: 8037206Abstract: System and methods for providing multimedia message service (MMS) interoperability between an initiating carrier and a destination carrier. A transcoding facility receives an MMS message from an initiating carrier and accesses a number portability database to determine an identity of a destination carrier to which the MMS message is intended to be sent and a carrier profile repository to obtain a carrier profile for the destination carrier, the carrier profile including information regarding an MMS format acceptable to the destination carrier.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: Derek Hung Kit Tam, James C. Farrow, William H. Dudley, Thilo Rusche, Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Publication number: 20110145436Abstract: An intermediary infrastructure that facilitates the interconnection of multiple IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. The interconnections may span one or more of the IMS logical planes Services Plane, Control Plane, and Network or Transport Plane. The intermediary offers among other things a process, routing, and switching complex that is able to among other things process incoming messages including using a comprehensive routing repository to complete message routing operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Patent number: 7886077Abstract: An intermediary infrastructure that facilitates the interconnection of multiple IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks. The interconnections may span one or more of the IMS logical planes Services Plane, Control Plane, and Network or Transport Plane. The intermediary offers among other things a process, routing, and switching complex that is able to among other things process incoming messages including using a comprehensive routing repository to complete message routing operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Patent number: 7660594Abstract: A system and method for facilitating electronic communication between people who speak different languages. An SMS message including content in a first language is received at a network node. It is then determined whether the content in a first language is received at a network node. It is then determined whether the content of the SMS message is to be translated to a second language before being sent to a recipient. This determination can be based on an embedded code or on the fact that a bounded session has been previously established. The content is then translated from the first language to the second language, and the SMS message is thereafter sent to the recipient directly from the network node at which the translating step was performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: Venkatesh Chava, Mark R. Smith, William H. Dudley
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Publication number: 20090291697Abstract: System and methods for providing multimedia message service (MMS) interoperability between an initiating carrier and a destination carrier. A transcoding facility receives an MMS message from an initiating carrier and accesses a number portability database to determine an identity of a destination carrier to which the MMS message is intended to be sent and a carrier profile repository to obtain a carrier profile for the destination carrier, the carrier profile including information regarding an MMS format acceptable to the destination carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: Derek Hung Kit TAM, James C. Farrow, William H. Dudley, Thilo Rusche, Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090138391Abstract: As individuals increasingly engage in different types of transactions they face a growing threat from, possibly among other things, identity theft, financial fraud, information misuse, etc. and the serious consequences or repercussions of same. Leveraging the ubiquitous nature of wireless devices and the popularity of (SMS, MMS, etc.) messaging, an infrastructure that enhances the security of the different types of transactions within which a wireless device user may participate. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: Sybase 365, Inc.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Marc Rhone Landrum, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090111492Abstract: Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for intelligent and dynamic alternate Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message delivery channels. Occasions may arise where a Mobile Subscriber would like to use their Wireless Device to exchange (for example, MMS) messages but circumstances may prohibit or limit same. On such occasions the MMS messages may be appropriately processed and then routed through one or more alternate message delivery channels such as, possibly inter alia, E-Mail. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Marc Rhone Landrum, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090104922Abstract: Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) services so that numerous wireless operators can transmit MMS messages between them.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Derek Hung Kit Tam, James C. Farrow, Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Kirk Tsai, William Chu, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090098894Abstract: Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for enhanced content delivery in new and creative ways. The delivery model leverages the features, capabilities, etc. that are offered by MMS to deliver various types of content (e.g., content that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to display on a wireless device using the wireless device's native facilities) to wireless devices by, possibly inter alia, processing the content (including, possibly among other steps, formatting the content, rendering the content as one or more images, etc.) and subsequently delivering the processed content to a wireless device via MMS. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Michael Timmons, Robert C. Lovell, JR.
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Publication number: 20090011746Abstract: A user feedback generation and management capability, operating possibly within a Value-Added Service Provider, provides key feedback (e.g., information, updates, etc.) to a Mobile Subscriber (MS) during, for example, the MS? receipt of rich content on the MS? Wireless Device (WD). The feedback may be conveyed to a MS? WD through, possibly inter alia, one or more Short Message Service messages. Such feedback may, possibly inter alia, provide details as to why certain content might not be received, suggest one or more alternative content delivery means, etc. and thus serve to obviate what would otherwise be (1) a frustrating, disappointing, etc. user experience for the MS and (2) increased customer service costs for the different content and service providers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2008Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: SYBASE 365, INC.Inventors: William H. Dudley, Robert C. Lovell, JR.