Yahoo! Inc.

Other

At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Mobility II LLC

Rte Corporation

Vibrant Media Limited

Robert Hammond

Pavel Murnikov

Gulrukh Ahanger

Todd Boes

Daniel P Malee

Tony Wong

Toby Doig

Satish Janardan

Maurice Goodman, Jr

Laury Ann Wills

Jeloni Shabazz

Douglas DeMarco

Gregory Miller

Angelo J Molinari

Example methods disclosed herein include accessing first messaging received from an enterprise mobility management system to identify a first device, the first messaging conforming to a first set of application programming interfaces. Disclosed example methods also include exchanging respective instances of second messaging with respective ones of multiple different service provider information technology systems supporting service ordering to identify a first one of the service provider information technology systems associated with the first device, the respective instances of the second messaging including first data from the first messaging and conforming to respective second sets of application programming interfaces, different from the first set of application programming interfaces, that are specific to the respective ones of the different service provider information technology systems. Disclosed example methods further include exchanging third messaging with the first one of the service provider information technology systems to determine service offerings available for the first device.

Methods and apparatus to interface with different service provider information technology systems supporting service ordering

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing multiple persona support for communications. A processor, at the device, can execute a persona service. The persona service can create one or multiple containers/highly secure work space(s) within the user device. The processor, at the administrator level of the specific work group, can detect a communication request comprising a request to initiate a communication. The processor can determine if the communication comprises a call. If a determination is made that the communication comprises the call, the processor, based on the profiles of the parties, can obtain call handling rules/policies, initiate setup of a communication path for the call, provide contacts to parties to the call, and determine how the call is handled. If a determination is made that the call is accepted, the processor can allow initiation of the call, or other appropriate treatments

Multiple persona support for communications

The solution of the ad delivery platform described herein provides for the marketing and monetizing of media assets via the delivery of advertisement with on-demand video. The ad platform optimizes the delivery of ads by controlling the insertion frequency and format of the ad delivered with video streams. The ad platform provides flexible and configurable ad insertion rules to specify the insertion frequency and format for the composition of ads during playback of on-demand video media. The ad insertion rules may be based on a user profile, user behavior history, topic of the stream to be delivered, duration of the video or ad, and/or the popularity rating of the video or ad. The ad platform includes a reporting tool and usage reports to measure the effectiveness of the ad insertion rules in delivering ads to market and monetize the video media.

Systems and methods for inserting ads during playback of video media

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for creating, via a development tool, a unit type for display on a web page in response to a keyword on the web page. A development tool may identify a unit type template for creating a unit type. The unit type may comprise a tooltip for augmenting a keyword on a web page. A user may select, via the development tool, a media block component to add to the unit type. The user may place the media block component on a layout of the unit type. The development tool may generate script code to define the layout of the unit type as a set of cells and rows within a predetermined sized container. The media block component may be placed in a cell and a row of the set of cells and rows. The script code may provide execution direction for rendering media of the media block component while displaying the unit type.

Systems and methods for providing modular configurable creative units for delivery via intext advertising

The solution of the ad delivery platform described herein provides for the marketing and monetizing of media assets via the delivery of advertisement with on-demand video. The ad platform optimizes the delivery of ads by controlling the insertion frequency and format of the ad delivered with video streams. The ad platform provides flexible and configurable ad insertion rules to specify the insertion frequency and format for the composition of ads during playback of on-demand video media. The ad insertion rules may be based on a user profile, user behavior history, topic of the stream to be delivered, duration of the video or ad, and/or the popularity rating of the video or ad. The ad platform includes a reporting tool and usage reports to measure the effectiveness of the ad insertion rules in delivering ads to market and monetize the video media. The ad platform also includes an ad inventory management and forecasting tool for determining the available inventory of ad placement based on data collected over a period of time regarding the delivery of ads and the ad insertion rules to be used for the delivery of a desired ad. With these tools, a more effective ad campaign can be created based on the target information and optimization via the ad insertion rules.

Systems and methods for forecasting ad inventory

Apparatus for practicing and teaching ball batting characterized by use of a rotary member journaled for rotation about a shaft, and a flexible linkage affixes a ball, nominally a baseball, in a down-hanging position from the rotary member. When the ball is struck with a bat it will move in an arcuate motion about the axis of the rotary member. Particularly in accordance with the present invention, a backboard mounts the rotary member to a vertrical post. The backboard is releasably maintained upon the post by 'U' bolts which hold the post against a channel formed by spaced-apart parallel spacer bars positioned upon the backboard. The flexible linkage incorporates a spring-biased hook allowing ready substitution of balls thereon.

Apparatus for practicing and teaching ball batting

A multiposition rotary transformer switch including a molded switch housing including a bore, an interrupted mounting flange located intermediate the ends of the bore and an interrupted key flange at one end of the bore, the flanges each including slots located at equally spaced intervals, the slots in one flange being offset from the slots in the other flange and a number of fixed contacts mounted on said housing, a dual voltage shaft assembly including a shaft having a drive nut at one end and a pair of floating contacts at the other end, and a tap changer shaft assembly including a shaft having a drive nut at one end and a floating contact at the other end, the shaft assemblies being adapted to be mounted in the bore in the housing and a reversible cap adapted to be mounted on the switch housing to enclose the end of the shaft assemblies in one position and mounted on the drive nut on the shaft in the other position to selectively rotate the shaft assembly with respect to the fixed contacts, the cap being keyed into the drive nut before the shaft assembly can be rotated in the bore.

Transformer switch

A carrying bag or tote bag to the exterior sides of which is removably attached a flexible wrap-around element which, on its exterior surface, is impressed or otherwise applied the design of a game board, or the like. The wrap-around element can be detached from the bag and extended flat on a suitable plane surface to form a game board upon which the game can be played. The design of the game board on the wrap-around element serves also as a decorative feature of the bag.

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Exeter, NH, United States of America

Robert Hammond