Cellco Partnership

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Kumar Sanjeev

Lalit R Kotecha

Mingxing Li

Zhijian Lin

Donna L Polehn

David Chiang

Jerry M Kupsh

Lodema Margaret Steinbach

Sethumadhav Bendi

Amir Mayblum

Kent William Hughes

Priscilla Lau

Steven Roy Rados

Dongliang Hu

Radhika Khanna

Ashwin R Kamath

Nithya Krishnaswamy

Rohini Prabhune

Seng Kin Liew

Arda Aksu

Sagiv Draznin

Xuming Chen

Thomas W Haynes

John F Macias

Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang

Brian Olson

Wei Guang Tan

Bradley D Cooper

Alice Yuan Bain

Keith P Lampron

Eliezer K Pasetes

Ning-Chia Yeh

Brandon James Martella

Guangxin Frank Liu

Jignya Shah

Chi Kit Lo

Derrick Snarr

A system may use optical character recognition ('OCR') techniques to identify license plates or other textual information associated with vehicles. Based on this OCR information, the system may determine additional information, such as users associated with the vehicles. The system may further obtain other information, such as history information associated with the vehicles and/or the users (e.g., via an 'opt-in' data collection service). Ad content may be selected based on trends associated with the users and/or vehicles, and may be presented via &#x201c;smart&#x201d; billboards (e.g., billboards that may dynamically display different content).

Presenting smart billboard content based on optical pattern recognition of vehicle information

A user may have real-time control over whether accessing a network service account implements two-factor authentication. When a username and password is provided to log into the network service account, a determination may be made about whether the login attempt is a potential security threat. When the login attempt does not appear to be a threat, the login attempt may be processed based on the username and password. When the login attempt is a potential security threat, the actual user corresponding to the network service account may be notified and asked to confirm whether the login attempt is a security threat. When the user confirms that the login attempt is not a security threat, the user may be logged in based on the username and password. When the user confirms that the login attempt is a security threat, two-factor authentication may be implemented for accessing the network service account.

User-enabled, two-factor authentication service

A method of establishing a media session between first and second mobile stations, the method including receiving, at an MQTT messaging service and from the first mobile station, a first MQTT subscription request and a first MQTT application message; issuing, in response to receiving the first MQTT application message, an indication to the second mobile station that a mobile station requests establishing a media session with the second mobile station; receiving, at the MQTT messaging service and from the second mobile station, a second MQTT application message; forwarding the second MQTT application message to the first mobile station; receiving a SIP INVITE message issued by one of the first and second mobile stations; forwarding the SIP INVITE message the other of the first and second mobile stations; receiving a SIP OK message issued by the one mobile station; and forwarding the SIP OK message to the other mobile station.

Establishing media sessions via MQTT and SIP

A device may receive information associated with establishing a gateway connection. The gateway connection may be an ad hoc connection to a user device that permits the user device to transfer network traffic to/from a base station via another user device and without the user device directly connecting to the base station via a radio access network. The information being associated with determining that a gateway establishment condition is satisfied. The device may cause the gateway connection to be established based on the information associated with establishing the gateway connection. The device may cause the user device to utilize the gateway connection to transfer network traffic to/from the base station.

Providing a network gateway for user devices

A device may be configured to receive a message from a user device; and determine whether the message includes a parameter. When the message does not include the loop indicator parameter, the device may add the loop indicator parameter to the message to generate a first modified message, and output the first modified message toward an intended recipient of the message. When the message includes the loop indicator parameter, the device may determine whether a value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds a threshold value. When the value of the loop indicator parameter does not exceed the threshold value, the device may discard the message. When the value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds the threshold value, the device may modify the value of the loop indicator parameter value to generate a second modified message, and output the second modified message toward the intended recipient of the message.

Preventing SMS message forwarding loops

Credit card fraud prevention techniques are disclosed in which the authorization of a payment card may be performed using information obtained from a mobile device (e.g., a smart phone) associated with a user who initiates a point-of-sale payment card transaction. In one implementation, a device may receive a request for authorization of a payment associated with a payment card; and obtain location information relating to a location of a mobile device associated with a user of the payment card. The device may determine, based at least on a location of the point-of-sale terminal and the location of the mobile device, whether to authorize the request for authorization of the payment.

Point-of-sale location check for payment card purchases

A device of a first party may receive a message from a second party. The device may obtain mapping information. The mapping information may be associated with a third party verification that the enterprise identifier was assigned to the second party. The mapping information may be associated with mapping the enterprise identifier to a media identifier selected by the second party or the third party to represent the enterprise sender. The device may map the enterprise identifier to the media identifier based on the mapping information. The device may provide the media identifier with the message.

Identifiers for enterprise messages

A system is configured to receive account information associated with a subscriber and a set of user devices, and receive user input, from a device associated with the subscriber, indicating that a feature is to be activated for the set of user devices. The device is configured to determine an association between the set of user devices and a feature code associated with the feature. The device is configured to receive a request to activate the feature from a user device, of the set of user devices, and determine that the user device is eligible to receive the feature based on the association between the set of user devices and the feature code. The device is configured to activate the feature for the user device based on determining that the user device is eligible to receive the feature.

Feature activation on device

A user device may be used to prevent a user from driving a vehicle while distracted by the user device. The user device may create a user profile, determine whether the user is driving, and collect usage data while the user is driving. The user profile may include information regarding the driver's propensity to be distracted while driving and the usage data may include information on whether the user is actually distracted by the user device. The user device may determine whether the driver is distracted based on the user profile and the usage data, and may respond in one or more ways, such as by alerting the driver with an audio signal, disabling a feature of the user device, logging instances of user distraction with a diagnostics device, activating a braking system of the vehicle, warning nearby drivers about the driver being distracted, and more.

Distracted driver prevention systems and methods

A server device may receive a message from a first user device, the message being destined for a second user device; determine a call session control function (CSCF) server device associated with the second user device; and output, based on the determining, the message to the CSCF server device.

Centralized short message service center server for messaging

A system includes a gateway and a verification server. The gateway is configured to receive a first message from a client over a network; send a request to a verification server to generate a first credential based on the first message; and route the first message toward a remote device. The verification server is configured to receive the request from the gateway; generate the first credential in response to the request; store the first credential; receive a second message from the remote device, the message requesting the verification server to validate a second credential; determine whether the second credential is valid based on the first credential; and send a notification to the remote device indicating whether the second credential is valid.

Verifying an identity of a message sender

A device may receive a text message or a multimedia message to be received by a receiving device. The message may be stored by one or more storage devices. The device may determine that the message is to be received by the receiving device via a wireless local area network (WLAN). The device may send, to the receiving device, a notification associated with the message. The device may identify a storage device, of the one or more storage devices, to provide the message to the receiving device. The device may manage a synchronization between the receiving device and the storage device via the WLAN. The synchronization may cause the message to be received by the receiving device. The device may receive an indication that the receiving device has received the message, and may provide closure information. The closure information may prevent the message from being delivered via a cellular network.

Sending and receiving messages over wireless local area networks

A device is configured to receive triggering information including a set of conditions associated with spam. The device is configured to receive a message from a sending device, and to determine that the message is spam based on determining that the message satisfies a threshold quantity of conditions of the set of conditions. The device is configured to provide a notification indicating that the message may be spam, and receive response information, based on the notification, indicating that the sending device is to be blacklisted. The device is configured to cause, based on the response information, a future message from the sending device to be blocked prior to being presented to a user.

Spam notification device

A mobile device may perform actions based on sensing a wireless beacons. The action to take, for a particular beacon, may be determined based on a query to a remote database or server. For example, in one implementation, a method may include detecting a wireless beacon that is in proximity to the mobile device; querying, based on the beacon identifier, a remote computing device for attribute information relating to the wireless beacon; and determining, based on the received attribute information, one or more actions to perform by the mobile device.

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San Ramon, CA, United States of America

Kumar Sanjeev