Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC

Okeno R Palmer

Jack Jianxiu Hao

Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn

Dahai Ren

Guillermo Ortiz

Gaurav D Mehta

Gaurav Gupta

Jian Huang

Michael R Oliver

Guanqun Bao

Saumitra Kumar

Harsha Vardhana Reddy Hardhagari

Jianxiu Hao

Fenglin Yin

Susan Kelly

Shuai Wu

Fengping Zhang

Atul Thaper

Bradford A Jackvony

Chris L Helbling

Zhiying Jin

Ming Chen

Hong Xiao

Raymond C Counterman

Xuefeng Yao

Yuhui Qian

Eric Richard Sporel

Hector Andres Saint-Hilaire

Ishan Awasthi

Gaurav A Tanna

Ashraf Shehata

Abhishek Gupta

Bobby Bo Xiao

Bhawna Bhandari

Manisha Vyas

A device may receive a request for a mobile device to obtain an application. The request may include a mobile device identifier for the mobile device. The device may send, to the mobile device, a link to a web page. The device may receive, from the mobile device, a request for the web page. The device may send, to the mobile device, a redirect to a software distribution platform to obtain the application from the software distribution platform. The device may receive a registration identifier for the mobile device after the mobile device obtains the application from the software distribution platform. The device may send, to a message server, a request for a message to be sent to the mobile device. The request may be based on the registration identifier and the application.

Sending messages to mobile devices

A system described herein may allow for the frictionless authentication of a user and/or user device (e.g., without requiring that the user provide login details, such as a user name and password). The frictionless authentication may occur via a licensed wireless network, even when the user device is actively engaged in communications with an unlicensed wireless network (and/or is not engaged in communications with the licensed wireless network).

Frictionless authentication over WiFi

A method to facilitate secure access to a sponsored data service (SDS) through an application programming interface gateway includes providing an access token to a content provider device, where the access token authorizes the content provider device to receive sponsored data services (SDSs). The method also includes receiving a first request for an SDS resource from the content provider device; generating a first timestamp associated with the first request; determining a destination for the first request, where the destination specifies a network address corresponding to an SDS resource device; forwarding the first request to the SDS resource device based on the determined destination; receiving a first response from the SDS resource device corresponding to the first request; generating a second timestamp associated with the first response; and forwarding the first response, along with the first timestamp and the second timestamp, to the content provider device.

Application programming interface gateway for sponsored data services

A method, a device, and a storage medium having instructions stored thereon to obtain usage data that indicates a usage of a downloading service and a streaming service of programs, in which the programs are provided to user devices via unicast delivery. The usage data is analyzed to determine whether a multicast offloading or a broadcast offloading is to be invoked on behalf of a program designated for unicast delivery. Additionally, a method, a device, and a storage medium obtain usage data, analyze the usage data, and generate a recommendation for an infrastructural change of a content delivery network based on the analysis.

Broadcast/multicast offloading and recommending of infrastructural changes based on usage tracking

A first network device receives multiple subscription data campaigns, where each of the multiple subscription data campaigns comprises media content, a free data usage quota, and a price for receiving the media content, presents the multiple subscription data campaigns to a user device associated with a user, and receives a selection of one of the multiple subscription data campaigns from the user device. The first network device receives, from a second network device, an indication that the user has successfully subscribed to the selected one of the multiple subscription data campaigns, where the second network device hosts media content associated with the selected one of the multiple subscription data campaigns, generates an authorization token that includes an identifier of the user, an identifier of the selected one of the multiple subscription data campaigns, and the free data usage quota, and sends the authorization token to the second network device.

Portal for toll free media subscription campaigns

A system may receive a network address to be validated to determine whether the network address is associated with a toll-free data service. The system may perform a validation operation to validate that the network address is associated with the toll-free data service. The validation operation may be based on a key identifier associated with the network address or a network address signature associated with the network address. The key identifier may correspond to a security key used to create the network address signature. The network address signature may be created using the security key. The system may determine whether to bill a first party or a second party for data usage associated with the toll-free data service based on the validation operation. The system may provide information that identifies whether to bill the first party or the second party for the data usage associated with the toll-free data service.

Key management system for toll-free data service

A device receives information associated with over-the-top (OTT) content associated with a user of the device. The device retrieves, from an OTT content delivery system, an address a playback position, and a manifest file associated with the OTT content, where the manifest file identifies chunks of content associated with the OTT content. The device retrieves, from the OTT content delivery system, one or more chunks, of the chunks of content associated with the OTT content, based on the address, the playback position, and the manifest file, where the one or more chunks are fewer than all of the chunks. The device stores the one or more chunks in the memory, receives an instruction to play the OTT content after the one or more chunks are stored, and plays the one or more chunks, based on the instruction, while simultaneously obtaining remaining chunks of the OTT content.

Processing over-the-top content for improved initial delivery

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

A device may receive a first request to determine a public-facing Internet Protocol (IP) address of a mobile device. The device may transmit, in response to the first request, and to the mobile device, the public-facing IP address. The device may receive a second request, from the mobile device, to authenticate the mobile device to receive downloadable content, the second request including the public-facing IP address of the mobile device. The device may receive a third request, from the mobile device, for a license to receive a particular content item and determine whether the public-facing IP address, corresponding to the mobile device, is valid for the particular content item. The device may transmit the license to the mobile device when the public-facing IP address is determined to be valid for the particular content item, where the license includes decryption keys for the particular content item.

IP-based mobile device authentication for content delivery

An apparatus for providing emergency service validation may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receiving a message associated with a registration event of a device to a communication session. The message may include a parameter having information indicative of a location of the device at a time of the registration. The processor may also be configured to determine whether the location of the device at the time of the registration corresponds to a location where an emergency service dispatch is supportable.

Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing emergency service validation

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 device receives, from a user device, a request for content from a home network, and sends a notification of the request for content to a home network device. The device receives, from the home network device, a selection list of particular content, provides, to the user device, the selection list, and receives, from the user device, a content selection from the selection list. The device sends, to the home network device, the content selection, and receives, from the home network device, an indication that content corresponding to the content selection has been uploaded to a content delivery network. The device sends, to the user device, instructions to retrieve the content from the content delivery network.

Home network video peer-to-peer for mobile devices

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Woburn, MA, United States of America

Okeno R Palmer