Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Nextel Communications Inc.

James Dale Black

Claudio Lima

James J Pan

Renxiang Huang

David Lindel Harris

Minh Duy Khuc

Boris Rabinovich

A system, a method and computer-readable media for managing content received over a network by a client device. A network transmission communicating an item of content is detected by a client device, and a determination is made whether the client device is in a mode of operation that allows the storing of uninvited media content. For example, the client device may be a mobile communication device monitoring the media being transmitted over a broadcast channel. When an item of content is observed traversing the broadcast channel, a set of user-defined preferences is accessed to determine whether to permit receiving the item. If permitted, the item of content is stored in a data store on the client device for subsequent presentation to the user.

Management of requested or pushed content in communications client devices

An embodiment of the invention is directed to retaining customers for a wireless-service provider ('carrier'). A ratio is calculated based on a number of incoming calls received by a mobile device and a number of outgoing calls originating from the mobile device. The ratio is also based on locations of callers that originated the incoming calls. The ratio is compared to an influencer threshold. When the ratio is greater than the influencer threshold, then a subscriber associated with the mobile device is indicated to be an influencer that potentially affects decisions of other subscribers regarding whether to cancel or maintain their subscriptions with the wireless service. An incentive is provided to the influencer to increase the likelihood that the influencer will retain a subscription with the wireless service, thereby increasing the likelihood that other subscribers who might be influenced by the influencer will retain their respective subscriptions.

Identifying influencers among a group of wireless-subscription subscribers

Ways for facilitating an automated calling process are described. An embodiment includes receiving a start indication to start recording events associated with a call process, starting a timing reference, receiving data provided by a user, storing information suitable to reproduce the received data based on the timing reference, and repeating the receiving step and the storing step until a stop indication to stop recording events is received. Redialing can occur without user intervention by retrieving a first indication of an information-providing event associated with a dialing process, providing data to satisfy the information-providing event, determining whether a subsequent information-providing event is to be expected, waiting for a correct time or for a prompt to provide additional data to satisfy the subsequent information-providing event, providing additional data to satisfy the subsequent information-providing event, and without user interaction, repeating the determining, waiting, and providing steps until the call is connected or until there is no additional data to provide.

Intelligent and automatic calling process

An embodiment of the current invention is directed to retaining customers for a wireless-service provider ('carrier'). A plurality of users who are influencers are identified from a group of wireless-service subscribers, wherein an influencer is a user who is likely to affect decisions of other users regarding whether to cancel or maintain their subscriptions with a particular carrier based on whether the influencer cancels or maintains his or her subscription. A list of influencers is thereby created. An incentive to provide the list of identified influencers is determined. The incentive increases the likelihood that the set of influencers will retain their respective subscriptions, thereby increasing the likelihood that other subscribers who might be influenced will also retain their respective subscriptions.

A system, a method and computer-readable media for distributing content to client devices over a network. Various items of content are stored in the network or available through the network such that a client device may request to receive an item of content over the network. The method selects items of content by anticipating which of the items users will request. The selected items of content are transmitted over the network in a group delivery to multiple client devices.

Prediction-based adaptive content broadcasting over a network

Systems and methods for transmitting video are provided. The system determines the type of encoded video frames. Each of the video frames is then placed in a network transport packet. A priority level of the network transport packet is set based on the determined type of the video frame. The system can apply error correction coding to video frames of a lower priority level.

System and method for transmitting video information

A communication system receives packets transmitted by a user device. The packets implement a named service application to provide a communication service. The system transmits the packets to a packet network and identifies a communication problem. The system transmits information for delivery to the user device indicating that the named service application will be inhibited due to the communication problem and offering an alternative service application to provide the communication service. The system receives an acceptance transmitted by the user device, and in response, transmits the alternative service application for delivery to the user device. The system receives additional packets transmitted by the user device. The additional packets implement the alternative service application to provide the communication service. The system transmits the additional packets to the packet network.

Providing an alternative service application to obtain a communication service when the current service application is inhibited

A control system for a communication network stores a plurality of fault recovery plans that are respectively associated with a plurality of links. The control system processes a first control signal from the communication network indicating that one of the links has a fault, and in response, identifies one of the fault recovery plans that is associated with the one link having the fault and implements the one fault recovery plan. The control system receives a second control signal from the communication network indicating network information, and in response, recalculates the fault recovery plans. The recalculated fault recovery plans implement link-based fault recovery, sub-path based fault recovery, and path-based fault recovery. The recalculated fault recovery plans group links constituents into groups by QoS requirements and assign the groups to back-up routes based on the QoS requirements and the performance of the back-up routes.

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James Dale Black