Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Data Services Inc.

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Guillermo Ortiz

Okeno R Palmer

Dahai Ren

Jian Huang

Gaurav D Mehta

Michael R Oliver

Jianxiu Hao

Xuefeng Yao

Fenglin Yin

John F Gallagher

Zhiying Jin

Shuai Wu

Fred Scheer

Atul Thaper

Fang Zhu

Bradford A Jackvony

Gaurav A Tanna

Chris L Helbling

Muralikumar Venkatasubramaniam

Yuhui Qian

Wei Xia

Robert C Baruch

Diego J Crespo

Gerald Honma

Ashraf Shehata

Serkan Tosun

Shaygan Kheradpir

Abhishek Gupta

Jeffery Lionel Harris

Bobby Bo Xiao

A method includes accessing at least one referral information entry. Each referral information entry associated with a referred user device is based on a referral from a referring partner application to a product. Each referral information entry includes an identifier for the referring partner application, a product identifier for the product, a time stamp of the referral, and a unique identifier associated with the referred user device. Sign-up information is received from a user device. The sign-up information includes a unique identifier of the user device, and a time of sign-up. The method includes mapping the sign-up information to the at least one referral information entry to determine whether the user device is one of the referred user devices. A determination whether the bounty requirements are met is made based on the mapped information and at least one predetermined business rule for referral bounties.

Bounty tracking for referral

A method may include receiving a primary resource in a user device, wherein the resource includes a plurality of addresses and each of the plurality of addresses identifying one of a plurality of additional resources. The method may further include aggregating the plurality of addresses and sending the aggregated addresses to a network device. The method may further include receiving the additional resources in the user device.

Network architecture and method for reducing the number of resource requests

Methods and devices provide channel assignments of programs delivered in a mobile setting. The channel assignments include unicast channels, multicast channels, and broadcast channels. The channel assignments are based on one or more of the type of program, user viewership information, or user voting information. Additionally, methods and devices provide for handover between mobile service areas at the application layer. Programs are buffered based on a handover time. During the handover, the buffered portion of the program is played.

Delivery channel selection and application layer handover of programs for a mobile service

A method includes requesting, by a user device, video program related content. The video program related content includes content related to one or more video programs provided by a service provider. The method also includes receiving the video program related content. A selection of a video program from the one or more video programs is received. The video program is selected at a set top box. The method also includes controlling a viewing session for the video program using the user device.

Controlling a viewing session for a video program

One or more devices transmit, to a user device, an application for secure mobile streaming, and receive, from the user device, a registration request for the application. The registration request includes a user ID and a unique device identifier (UDID) for the user device. The one or more devices initiate a validation procedure for the user ID or UDID. When the user ID or UDID is validated, the one or more devices generate a device-token for the user device. The device-token includes a hash value based on information in the registration request and an expiration date for the device-token. The one or more devices send the device-token to the user device via a private network. The device-token is required to permit the user device to receive a secure content stream via a public network.

Streaming video authentication

A mobile device may efficiently update a multi-layer graphic display by storing a background image representing an image of a graphic user interface displayed by the device but not including graphic elements that are in an active layer of the graphic user interface. The device may determine regions in the graphic user interface that previously corresponded to locations of the graphic elements and that no longer correspond to locations of the graphic elements; and issue one or more graphic commands to set the determined regions to be equal to corresponding regions from the background image.

Multi-layer graphics painting for mobile devices

A system is configured to store a user profile associated with a user, the user profile including: a first time, a time period, a list of content accessed by the one or more devices from one or more servers. The system may further be configured to identify particular content based on the list of content from the user profile; determine an amount of particular content to transfer based on the time period; and automatically transfer at least the amount of particular content from one or more servers to the one or more devices over a local area network, prior to the first time.

Reducing cellular network traffic

A network device may include a memory to store a database including voicemail message information associated with a voicemail mailbox, a transmitter, and a receiver. The transmitter may send a notification to each of a plurality of communication devices, the notification including an indication of a number of new voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, an indication of a total number of voicemail messages in the voicemail mailbox, and an identifier of a most recent voicemail message in the voicemail mailbox, where each of the plurality of communication devices uses the notification signal to determine whether to request a list of voicemail messages. The receiver may receive, from one of the communication devices in response to the notification, a request for the list of voicemail messages associated with voicemail message information stored in the database. The transmitter may sends, to the one of the plurality of communications devices, the list of voicemail messages.

Managing visual voicemail from multiple devices

Methods, computer program products, and apparatuses are provided for allowing a user to communicate with a set top box and a media content server through a mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone. The user may be able to request and receive a customer specific interactive programming guide through the mobile communication device. The interactive programming guide may allow the user to search and record media programs, including sending recording commands to a set top box to record a particular media program. The interactive programming guide may also allow the user to order and receive media programs to the mobile communication device. Embodiments may provide a personal video recorder proxy server as an interface between the mobile communication device and the set top box and the media content server.

Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing communications with at least one media provider

Video streams may be adaptively switched between multicast and unicast transmission over a wireless interface of a wireless network. A device may track a quantity of videos that are being streamed over the wireless network. The device may determine, based on the tracked quantity of videos, whether to dedicate a radio channel, of at least one cell in the wireless network, to streaming a first of the videos. The device may transmit, in response to a request, from a mobile device, for the first video, an identification of the dedicated radio channel so that the mobile device can receive the first video as a streaming video over the dedicated radio channel.

Adaptive mobile multicasting for wireless networks

An approach is provided to facilitate network connectivity and consumption of broadband services. A data network connection is established by a set-top box. Sharing of the data network connection by a plurality of user devices is permitted by the set-top box. A credit count is maintained based on the sharing of the data network connection by the plurality of user devices.

Method and system for facilitating network connectivity and consumption of broadband services

A server device receives a request for voicemail information from a user device, retrieves the voicemail information, performs data calls to another server device to obtain information to construct a visual user interface that includes data regarding the voicemail information, constructs the visual user interface using the obtained information, and transmits the constructed visual user interface to the user device.

Visual voicemail proxy server

A method that includes receiving a first request for video content from a user of a user device; retrieving an identifier for the user device using an application programming interface; sending a second request to receive the video content that includes the identifier; receiving an instruction to provide payment to rent or purchase the video content; sending the payment in response to the instruction; receiving the video content and a token, where the video content is encrypted based on a key and where the token indicates that the payment was processed; sending a third request to obtain a license associated with the video content that includes the token and the identifier; receiving the license, which includes the key and terms under which the video content is to be processed; decrypting the video content, using the key, when the decrypting is performed in a manner permitted by the terms; and playing the decrypted video content.

Secure video content provisioning using digital rights management

A system for applying time-based refresh and expiration parameters, including user-defined and/or automatically set values, for accessing cached media content and/or retrieving replacement media content for presentation via a communication device.

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn