At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

Bellsouth Corporation

Uber Technologies, Inc.

At&t Delaware Intellectual Property Corporation, Inc.

At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc

Other

Facebook, Inc.

Shopify Inc.

Open Invention Network LLC

Rakuten, Inc.

Poledo Holdings LLC

Dale W Malik

Robert A Koch

W Todd Daniell

Richard A Anderson

Nadia Morris

David Alberto Levine

Peter N Hill

Ledley Yaussy

Landon Robinson

Jeffrey Mikan

Nicholas Hill

Mary Sara Arnoff

John Thomas Stankey

Matt Peterson

Linda Ann Roberts

Horst Juergen Schroeter

Edward Michael Silver

Hisao M Chang

Lee G Friedman

Scott Crandall Holt

Larry Graham Kent, Jr

David Brux DeLorme

Stephen A Rys

Wayne R Howe

Scott R Morris

William J Conner

Ward M Chewning, Iii

Theodore Verren

Samuel N Zellner

Brian Keith Daigle

Larry Woodring

Alexander David Raji

Jerry C Shih

Sonu Mirchandani

Cathy Addison

Kitty Morel

Kim Bailey

Ed Silver

Stephen Randolph La Pierre

Terry Silver, Legal Representative

Michael Jackson

Jeffrey Allen Lord

Douglas B Watts

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement centralized authentication for granting access to services are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to perform device authentication at a first service are to access a profile based on an identification code included in an authentication request from a second service, the profile corresponding to a device associated with the identification code, the identification code assigned to the device by the first service. Disclosed example apparatus are also to assign a selected one of a plurality of trust levels to the device based on activity information associated with the device, location information specified for the device in the profile, and mobility information specified for the device in the profile. Disclosed example apparatus are further to transmit authentication information for the device to the second service responsive to the authentication request, the authentication information including the selected one of the trust levels.

Centralized authentication for granting access to online services

Electronic commerce is enhanced for customer convenience. When a selection is received for non-approved items offered by a vendor, authorization for the purchase of the item may be obtained from an administrative user. A message may be sent to an address of the administrative user to obtain the authorization.

Methods, systems, and products for ordering items

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for sharing media files. One embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes a file sharing application configured to initiate a communication session with a file server, where the file server that manages download requests for a collection of media files, where the collection of media files are subject to a trial period. The system further includes media file selection logic configured to prompt a user to select a subset of media files from the collection of media files that was downloaded from the file server after the trial period is detected to have expired. In accordance with this embodiment, the user selects a subset of media files that the user would like to keep for continued use and the remaining media files not selected by the user are then configured to be inaccessible by the user after the trial period has expired. Other systems and methods are also provided.

Trial use of a collection of media files

Methods for providing contextual information about communication devices and/or services. Profile information indicating a user's communication devices and/or services is stored. When profile information or a message log is displayed, the user may identify a communication device and/or service. A query inquires whether the user would like contextual information. The contextual information may be obtained from a gateway in a data network or a telecommunications manager in a telecommunication network. The contextual information is displayed. Profile information about a user's communicating partner may be stored. When the user makes an effort to communicate with the partner, a check may be made of the partner's profile information for a preferred communication device and/or service. If the user does not have a communication device and/or service corresponding to that of the communicating partner, a query may inquire whether the user would like contextual information. If so, the contextual information is presented.

Methods and systems for providing contextual information

Event management operations are enabled. The operations can include receiving a request to manage an event on behalf of an event sponsor identity associated with an event sponsor, the request including event information including a description of the event, invitee identities associated with invitees to the event and invitee contact information associated with the invitees, generating an event invitation message including the description of the event and an instruction for responding to the event invitation message, directing the event invitation message to be sent to the invitee contact information associated with the invitees, determining that responses to the event invitation message have been received from a set of the invitees, generating an event update message based on a sorting of the responses from the set of the invitees, and directing the event update message to be sent to sponsor contact information associated with the event sponsor.

Event management system

A method includes receiving, at an analysis server from a user device, a keyword associated with content of interest. The method includes retrieving, at the analysis server from a database, searchable tag data for first searchable tags in the database. Each searchable tag of the searchable tags corresponds to a segment of stored media content. The stored media content is associated with the user device. The first searchable tags pertain to the keyword. The searchable tag data includes an initial relevancy score and a corresponding aging factor for each first searchable tag of the first searchable tags. The method also includes generating, at the analysis server, a list of media content segments based on the searchable tag data and sending the list from the analysis server to the user device. The list is ordered based on the initial relevancy scores modified by the corresponding aging factors.

Video content search using captioning data

A method includes receiving, at a server, a first content item and a second content item from a content source. The first content item is distinct from the second content item. The method includes generating, at the server, a modified content item by combining a first portion of the first content item and a second portion of the second content item. The method includes initiating transmission of the modified content from the server to a first device. The method also includes, after a first portion of the modified content item is transmitted, initiating transmission of a second portion of the modified content item from the server to a second device distinct from the first device. The second portion is subsequent to the first portion in a playback order of the modified content item.

System and method to obtain content and generate modified content based on time limited content information

Methods and systems are disclosed for managing the communications and information resources of a user. Identity information relating to the user is received. The user's preference for withholding an incoming communication is obtained. An entry is created in a message log for the withheld communication. The user is not notified of receipt of the withheld communication, yet receipt of the withheld communication is logged in the message log.

Methods and systems for a communications and information resource manager

A method of managing bandwidth usage at a customer premises includes receiving a content stream at a set-top box device coupled to a display device. The method also includes receiving a power-off command for the display device. Furthermore, the method includes displaying a prompt on the display device, wherein the prompt comprises an instruction to confirm that the display device is active via a confirmation input. The method further includes directing, responsive to the determining that the confirmation input has not been received, a source device to cease sending the content stream to the set-top box.

System and method to manage a content stream

Dynamic event-based content distribution is facilitated. In one embodiment, a method comprises evaluating, by a device comprising a processor and communicatively coupled to a content node device of content node devices, a criterion to select content of a plurality of content to present from the content node device to a mobile device, wherein the criterion and selected content are associated with a time-limited event, the time-limited event occurring independent of the mobile device. The method also includes selecting, by the device, a value of values for the selected content, wherein the selected value is based on first geographical information for the time-limited event and second geographical information for the mobile device. The method also includes generating, by the device, information to cause the content node device to present, to the mobile device, the selected content with the selected value, wherein the generating is based on the evaluating and the selecting.

Facilitating dynamic event-based content distribution

Systems and methods are presented which generate modified email messages, which are largely devoid of embedded functions, from original email messages, which have embedded functions. The embedded functions are amenable to self-executing codes such as viruses, worms, and Trojan programs. Thus, the modified email message without these embedded functions, and any argument associated with these functions, provides a more secure email environment.

Preventing execution of programs that are embedded in email messages

A method includes sending, from a media device to a display device, media content associated with a channel provided by a content provider, the media content received from a network device associated with the content provider. The method includes analyzing, based on a profile, a data feed from a source external to the content provider to identify content of interest. The method includes sending an indicator from the media device to the display device in response to identifying the content of interest. The method also includes, in response to user input indicating selection of the indicator, sending selectable options associated with presentation of the content of interest to the display device.

Interactive program manager and methods for presenting program content

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to authenticate a first device for access to a first service provider are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include sending, by executing a first instruction with a processor at a first service provider, an authentication request from the first service provider to a second service provider. The authentication request is generated in response to an access request from the first device and includes an identification code assigned to the first device by the second service provider. Example methods also include obtaining, at the first service provider, an authentication response from the second service provider. The authentication response is generated by the second service provider in response to the authentication request. Example methods further include, based on the authentication response, granting, by executing a second instruction with the processor, the first device access to the first service provider.

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Dunwoody, GA, United States of America

Dale W Malik