Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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John F Gallagher

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Xuefeng Yao

Yuhui Qian

Zhiying Jin

Michael R Oliver

Ruchir Rodrigues

Martin Busse

Jin Yang

Ye Huang

Kristen Sydney Young

Dahai Ren

Jian Huang

Shadman Zafar

Carlos A Cazanas

Raul I Aldrey

Wei Xia

Brian Matthew White

Lonnie Katai

James Y Hwang

Ramanathan Subramaniam

Raju T Ramakrishnan

Peter Joseph

Rachel YuYin Ward

Ishan Awasthi

Wujun Qie

Andrien John Wang

Ashish Phutela

Martin A Iroff

Prema Kumar Yendrapati

Manisha Gupta

Manidipa Bhattacharyya

Gulay Kurt Chrzanowski

Yagiz Onat Yazir

Shaygan Kheradpir

Soumya Tiwari

A device associated with a network may provide a subscription request that requests data associated with the network and user equipment connected to the network. The device may receive, based on the subscription request, network congestion data associated with the network, reachability data associated with the user equipment, and location data associated with the user equipment. The device may determine a group of the user equipment based on the network congestion data, the reachability data, and the location data. The device may determine timing for providing firmware to the group based on capabilities of the user equipment in the group. The device may provide segments of the firmware to the network to cause the network to provide the segments of the firmware to the group based on the timing for providing the firmware to the group.

Systems and methods for providing firmware over-the-air delivery to internet of things user equipment

A first device may receive, from a first client device, a request for information from a second client device, wherein the second client device is connected to a second device that is geographically separated from the first device, and the first device is hosted in a first cloud computing environment and the second device is hosted in a second cloud computing environment. A first outbound routing agent associated with the first device may route the request to a second outbound routing agent associated with the second device, wherein the second outbound routing agent routes the request to the second client device to cause the second client device to generate a response. A first inbound routing agent associated with the first device may receive the response from a second inbound routing agent associated with the second device, and may provide the response to the first client device.

Systems and methods for end-to-end request-response flow routing for geographically distributed client devices

A device receives, from multiple user devices, event information associated with the multiple user devices, where the event information includes one or more actions, user information, content information, and one or more attributes. The device stores the event information in a database, and analyzes one or more portions of the event information stored in the database. The device also recommends, based on the analyzed event information, one or more adjustments to a network that delivers content to the multiple user devices.

Mobile user data collection

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

A method includes providing identifying application information associated with a user device in a network. The application information is information associated with at least one application running on the at least one user device. The method may further include identifying data usage information associated with the user device. The data usage information includes information associated with data used by the user device. In addition, the method may include associating the application information and the data usage information to determine application data usage for the user device. The method may also include identifying a data usage plan associated with the user device, and applying the data usage plan in the network based on the application data usage.

Data usage plan associated with user device

One or more network devices receive, from a third-party system, catalog metadata for physical media assets available to order and combine the catalog metadata with catalog entries for digital content to form a unified catalog file. The one or more devices receive, from a user device, a request to view a directory of available video content and send, to the user device, the unified catalog file for presentation to a user. The one or more devices receive, from the user device, a selection of an item in the unified catalog file. The one or more devices provide, to the user device, video content corresponding to the selection when the selection corresponds to one of the catalog entries for digital content and provide, to the third-party system and via a billing gateway, user payment information when the selection corresponds to the catalog metadata for one of the physical media assets.

Multi-screen video

A method includes receiving a request to provide streaming video content from a user device. A location is identified for the user device. Available networks to deliver the streaming video content are identified based on the location of the at least one user device. Network preference for delivery of the streaming video content is identified. The method also includes selecting an optimal network for delivering the streaming video content based on the location of the at least one user device, the available networks and the network preference for delivery of the streaming video content. The method may also include providing the streaming video content using the optimal network.

Optimizing selection of a network for video streaming

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

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

Exemplary methods and systems for managing an e-reader interface are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes an e-reader interface management system directing an e-reader device to display a plurality of graphical objects representative of a plurality of segments of an e-publication, detecting a user interaction with a graphical object within the plurality of graphical objects and representative of a segment within the plurality of segments, and directing the e-reader device to remove at least one other graphical object within the graphical objects from the display of the graphical objects, wherein the at least one other graphical object is representative of at least one other segment within the plurality of segments that is unrelated to the segment. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Methods and systems for managing an e-reader interface

A system and method are provided for obtaining video content using wireless multicast for video content data in combination with wireless unicast for requests of the video content and transmissions of licenses to use the video content. A method can include: receiving an instruction to obtain particular content; sending a first wireless unicast signal requesting the particular content; receiving the obtained particular content in response to sending the first wireless unicast signal; obtaining a license for the particular content; and providing a notification that the particular content is available for display by a mobile device.

Delivering video on demand (VOD) using mobile multicast networks

A device receives, from a target user device, a request for encrypted content, where the request is sent via a wireless access network. The device identifies a donor user device that is available to provide the encrypted content via a local wireless network connection, where the donor user device has previously downloaded the encrypted content. The device sends, to the target user device and/or the donor user device, instructions to establish a peer-to-peer connection, via the local wireless network, to provide the encrypted content to the target user device, where the encrypted content is decrypted by the target user device using a license key provided over a different network than the local wireless connection.

Mobile content delivery optimization

A fireplace heat loss shield having a fabric cover of woven fire resistant material that is emplaceable over the fireplace opening to inhibit loss of heated room air. The cover has pockets sewn along all four edges thereof, into which a rigid, rectangular frame is emplaced. The frame maintains the rectangular shape of the cover, and supports the cover in an upright position over the fireplace opening by horizontally extending legs which are rigidly attached to the supporting portion of the frame, and which extend horizontally outward from openings at the bottom corners of the cover. Draft up the chimney of the fireplace maintains the cover firmly against the edges of the fireplace opening, and air vent openings may be provided in the cover to allow some ventilation of smoldering material in the fireplace area and to relieve the inward suction on the fireplace cover.

Fireplace heat loss shield

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John F Gallagher