Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Business Global LLC

Cellco Partnership

Mci, Inc.

Other

Paul T Schultz

Robert A Sartini

Mark J Hahn

Martin William Mckee

Elliot G Eichen

James Ni

Todd M Willis

Umashankar Velusamy

Rezwanul Azim

David C Robbins

Timothy M Dwight

Thaddeus Jude Dudziak

Gowtham Javaregowda

Jeffrey H Swinton

Rafael A Gaviria

Tim D Paiement

Wenbo Su

William David Goodman

James Ronald Barfield

James L Verlare

Kevin R Witzman

William Andrew Fish

Lin Song

Kurt P Haldeman

Harrison Duong

Hubert Sieh

Harrison Doung

Peter D Grubb

Robert J Whyley

Information, called context information, relating to a current state of a user may be aggregated. In one implementation, the context information may include information that is automatically generated by communication devices of the user and information, submitted by the user, that relates to the user's state. The context information may be used to provide personalized advertisements for the user.

Aggregation and use of information relating to a user's context for personalized advertisements

Aggregation and use of information relating to a users context for personalized advertisements

Techniques described herein may provide for affiliation and disaffiliation of devices, such as office communication devices, associated with a user. The affiliation/disaffiliation may be performed using a mobile device (e.g., a smart phone). In one implementation, a method may include receiving a request to affiliate a user with one or more office devices; and receiving context data, from a mobile device, relating to a current context of the mobile device. The method may further include determining, based on the context data, to authorize the affiliation of the user with the one or more office devices; and provisioning, based on the determination to authorize the affiliation, the one or more office devices to customize the one or more office devices for the user.

Affiliation and disaffiliation of computing devices

A method and system are disclosed that enables a customer to specify when services should be provisioned on a 'just-in-time' or elastic basis. By dynamically specifying when services should be received, a customer is better able to suit such services to customer needs, thereby allowing the customer to only pay for what is actually used. Using an on-demand portal, a customer may prescribe when (or the degree to which) services should be enabled, and/or when the devices that utilize those services, or the services themselves, need to be monitored. Accordingly, the customer is given flexibility to dictate when services are required or when their services or devices require monitoring by a service provider, and the service provider is given the flexibility to tailor the amount of resources required to support and manage the customer's demands, thereby enabling more efficient use of both the customer's and service provider's resources.

Method and system for on demand elastic management of devices and services

A method may include performing secure device configuration, via a configuration service manager device, for a SIP user device. The method includes monitoring, via the configuration service manager device, the SIP user device for device authentication problems, configuration file download problems, device registration problems and device third party registration problems. The method may also include detecting the device authentication problems, and logging and reporting the detected device authentication problems. The method may also include automated testing of the device and logging and reporting of detected device test problems. The method further includes resolving the detected device authentication, registration or testing problems.

Secure automated device configuration and management

A computing device may execute a device connection application on a processor of the computing device to provide operations including establishing an ad-hoc data connection between the computing device and a machine-to-machine device, the computing device configured to set up the machine-to-machine device to interact with a network-based service using a user account of the network-based service; receiving device information from the machine-to-machine device over the established ad-hoc data connection; and connecting the machine-to-machine device to the network-based service based on the device information received from the machine-to-machine device and according to authentication of the computing device as being associated with the user account. The computing device may further be configured to authenticate and authorize a user to configure the machine-to-machine device to join the network and network-based service.

One touch machine to machine device connection

A device may receive a connection request including a digital certificate from an endpoint for establishing a secure connection for a communication, the digital certificate including a digital certificate chain identifying one or more certificate authorities associated with the digital certificate. The device may determine whether the digital certificate is valid based on the digital certificate chain identifying one or more certificate authorities trusted by the device. The device may determine whether the connection request includes a valid token. The device may generate a token based on the digital certificate being valid and an absence of a valid token included in the connection request. The device may associate the token with the digital certificate. The device may distribute the token to the endpoint. The device may establish the secure connection with the endpoint using the token associated with the digital certificate.

IoT communication utilizing secure asynchronous P2P communication and data exchange

A device may determine that a user device should be authenticated; and determine a confidence measurement based on an established activity pattern of the user device. The confidence measurement may relate to a likelihood that an authorized user of the user device is in possession of the user device. The device may authenticate the user device based on the confidence measurement.

User authentication based on established network activity

A server may receive a query from a query device. The query may include an identifier that identifies a user device, information regarding a geographic radius, and information regarding a geographic position. The server may determine a first proximity area based on the geographic radius and the geographic position indicated by the query. The server may determine a second proximity area that represents an area in which the user device may be included. The server may determine a value that indicates a likelihood that the first proximity area is within the second proximity area. The server may provide information to the query device indicating the value.

Privacy-based device location proximity

A system may be configured to receive an indication that a call has been placed (e.g., to a call center), and may provide a customized visual interface. The customized visual interface may include information that is potentially relevant to a user who has placed the call, and may be based on, for example, a user profile or history information, a purchase history of goods or services offered by an entity associated with the called party. The customized visual interface may allow the user to more quickly satisfy the purposes of his or her call than through traditional audio or touchtone menus.

Providing a customized visual interface based on a dialed number

A device may receive a request for a collaboration session. The device may authenticate a user for the collaboration session. The device may generate a trust-score associated with the collaboration session based on authenticating the user. The trust-score may be associated with a security level for the collaboration session. The security level may be associated with one or more capabilities of the collaboration session. The device may assign the user to a session role associated with the collaboration session. The session role may be associated with the one or more capabilities of the collaboration session. The device may provide information associated with the collaboration session based on the security level for the collaboration session and/or the session role assigned to the user.

Secure trust-scored distributed multimedia collaboration session

An approach for providing hierarchical pattern recognition of communication network data is described. A network security brain platform may process communication network data associated with one or more levels of communication network hierarchies. The network security brain platform may further determine a network information pattern of the communication network data based on one or more network information pattern models. The network security brain platform may also identify a network service issue based on the determined network information pattern. The network information pattern may include a network security pattern.

Method and apparatus for providing hierarchical pattern recognition of communication network data

An approach for providing context-based view content management is described. A request for content associated with a user is received. A view of a subset of the content is dynamically generated based on the request and context information associated with the user. Access to the view is provided for one or more user devices.

Method and system for providing context-based view content management

A method may include receiving or retrieving session information associated with one or more electronic communications that occurred outside of the social network site and included users of the social network site, comparing the session information with information associated with the users of the social network site, selecting one of the users as a user of the social network site and one or more of the users as one or more connections of the selected user of the social network site, based on the comparing, generating a weighted social graph for the selected user of the social network site, based on the session information, generating social network information based on the weighted social graph, and providing the social network information to at least one of the selected user of the social network site or the selected one or more connections of the user of the social network site.

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