Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Avinash S Chugh

Manian Krishnamoorthy

Momin Mirza

Gilda Majidi

Kiran Naiga

Gaurav Gupta

Raymond C Counterman

Jae Won Chung

Rangamani Sundar

Damascene M Joachimpillai

Michael Buonomo

Evgenia Jane Florins

Mark S Richardson

An exemplary method includes a subsidized access management system detecting a request provided by an access device associated with a user to access network content by way of a secure connection within a network provided by a network service provider, the network content associated with a content provider and maintained by a content provider system, determining that a data usage charge for access by the user to the network content by way of the secure connection within the network is subsidized by the content provider in accordance with a subsidized access arrangement between the content provider and the network service provider, and providing the user with subsidized access to the network content by way of the secure connection within the network in accordance with a rule set associated with the subsidized access arrangement. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for providing subsidized access to network content by way of a secure connection

Targeted audio advertisements may be inserted into IVR sessions. The audio advertisements may be targeted based on session data that includes information describing an ongoing IVR session of a user of a mobile device and demographic information of the user. The audio advertisements may include prompts to solicit information from the user during the ongoing IVR session. The targeted audio advertisements may be played, to the user, during the ongoing IVR session.

Promotion of web services through an IVR

Techniques described herein may be used to enable a user to obtain services from multiple organizations in a seamless, automated, and efficient manner. A network device may cause a user device to automatically access a web service by, for example, downloading a mobile application or accessing a web page designed to provide the web service. The network device may automatically identify a second web service that is logically related to the first web service and offer the second web service to the user. If the user accepts the second web service, the network device may cause the user device to automatically access the second web service via a mobile application, a webpage, etc. Identification and authentication issues for accessing the first or second web services may be automatically resolved by network device based on the mobile device number (MDN) of the user device and/or other profile information.

Instant and cohesive user access to diverse web services

A system and method relate to identifying a first color associated with a document, and versions of data to be added to the document are associated with, respectively, a plurality of second colors. The first color and the plurality of second colors are compared to form comparison results, and a particular version of the added content is selected from the plurality of versions of the data based on the comparison results. A modified document that includes the particular version of the data is formed and provided to the client device.

Automatic color selection

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Avinash S Chugh