Centurylink Intellectual Property LLC

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James D Scheller

Stephen Opferman

Tom Funk

Paul Johnson

Philip W Carpenter

Rick Calvert

Novel tools and techniques for a bio-authentication for streaming service account management are provided. A system includes a user device configured to access a streaming service account associated with a subscriber, a database, a biometric sensor configured to obtain a biometric input from a user, and a bio-authentication engine. The bio-authentication engine may include a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor to determine whether an authentication event has occurred, obtain the biometric input of the user, determine whether the biometric input matches the biometric information associated with the subscriber, and allow access to a streaming service through the streaming service account.

Bio-authentication for streaming service account management

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things ('IoT') functionality with a Public Safety Answering Point ('PSAP'). In some embodiments, a computing system located at a PSAP might receive a first message indicative of an emergency situation, analyze the first message to determine one or more actions to be taken, and identify one or more devices (e.g., household devices; vehicular components associated with a vehicle; utility devices; devices disposed in, on, or along a roadway; devices disposed throughout a population area; etc.) for performing the determined one or more first actions. The computing system might then autonomously control each of the identified one or more devices to perform tasks based on the determined one or more first actions to be taken, thereby implementing smart environment functionality (e.g., smart home, building, or customer premises functionality, smart vehicle functionality, smart utility, smart roadway functionality, smart city functionality, etc.).

Controlling IOT devices via public safety answering point

A pair of mud dispersement devices are deployed beneath a railroad tie and upon ballast material supporting the tie. Each device includes a flat elongated structure for underlying a half of the railroad tie and resting upon the ballast material supporting the tie. The elongated structure has opposite inner and outer ends and opposite top and bottom surfaces and defines a wedge-shaped cavity below the bottom surface which increases in height proceeding from the inner end of the elongated structure to the outer end thereof. A plurality of support elements are mounted on the top surface of the elongated structure and project upwardly therefrom for contacting the railroad tie to transmit a load produced by rolling stock moving on the railroad track downwardly from the railroad tie to the inclined plate. A plurality of ballast collection and mud dispersion elements are mounted on a bottom surface of the inclined plate and project downwardly therefrom into the ballast material for maintaining the ballast material in the load bearing area beneath the railroad tie while permitting the passage of mud from the load bearing area toward and beyond the outer end of the side members in response to the downward load transmitted from the railroad tie to the inclined plate.

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James D Scheller