Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

T-mobile Innovations LLC

Sprint Communication Cômpany L.p.

Sprint Communciations Company L.p.

Robin Dale Katzer

M Jeffrey Stone

Carl Joseph Persson

Kevin Zhu

Todd N Koellner

Jason Delker

Brian Douglas Mauer

Christopher J Bierbaum

Robert H Burcham

Sei Yen Ng

Michael Arthur Gailloux

Ricky A Hohler

Lyle W Paczkowski

Sanjay Kumar Sharma

James D Barnes

Deepthi Kota

Lyle Thomas Bertz

Hemant Vasant Tiwari

John Michael Everson

Robert E Urbanek

Wing K Lee

Jason Robert-Anthony Delker

Lynn A Neir

Jeffrey Scott Dillon

Geoff A Holmes

Charles D Stunson

Warren Bruce Cope

Matthew Carl Schlesener

William Michael Parsel

James Walter Norris

Devon L Biere

Dora Potluri

Ashish Kumar Singh

Sunil K Ponnangath

Richard Morton

Craig A Macha

Umesh Chandra Upadhyay

Vijayendra Nannapaneni

Denise K Sadler

A method of authenticating a secondary communication device based on authentication of a primary mobile communication device is disclosed. Trust is established with the primary mobile communication device by a device authentication server (DAS). The DAS receives an authorization code request from a secondary application operating on the secondary communication device, and transmits an authorization code to the secondary communication device. The DAS receives the authorization code from a primary application operating on the primary mobile communication device. The DAS authorizes the secondary application based on the trust with the primary mobile communication device and the authorization code from the primary application. The DAS transmits a secondary token to the secondary application at the secondary communication device to allow initialization of a communication session from the secondary application on behalf of the primary mobile communication device.

Secondary device authentication proxied from authenticated primary device

An electronic device reservation system that reduces the burden on an on-disk database is disclosed that comprises an on-disk database including a reservation table and an in-memory database storing a count of available electronic devices for each type of electronic device. The system also comprises a server comprising one or more application programming interfaces configured to receive a reservation request for a type of electronic device, access the in-memory database to determine whether there is enough inventory, modify the reservation table in the on-disk database for the reservation request in response to determining that there is enough inventory, decrement the count of available electronic devices for the type of electronic device in the in-memory database in response to the modification, and send a notification to a subscriber indicating that they have reserved a place in line electronically for a pre-order of the requested type of electronic device.

Database architecture for reducing the burden on an on-disk database

A method of multilayer communication between a front-end application and at least one back-end includes receiving a message by a communication message broker that executes on a computer system from the front-end application, sending information of the message to an event bridge that executes on a computer system, parsing the information by the event bridge to determine at least one request, prompting a rules database by the event bridge to look up a rule, identifying the rule that applies to the at least one request by the rules database, processing the at least one request by the event bridge in response to the rule, sending the at least one processed request from the event bridge to a query application that executes on a computer system, and resolving at least one query by the query application to send at least one call to at least one back-end application.

Communication hub for information technology (IT) services

A mobile communication device. The mobile communication device comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, a subscriber identity module (SIM), wherein the SIM stores an encryption key, and a client application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the client application transmits a server application authentication token request comprising an identity of the SIM, receives a message comprising a value, requests the SIM to encrypt the value using the encryption key stored by the SIM, receives an encrypted value from the SIM, transmits the encrypted value in a message, receives a server application authentication token, stores the server application authentication token in the non-transitory memory, transmits a server application access request comprising the server application authentication token, and conducts a communication session with the server application.

Server application access authentication based on SIM

A mobile communication device. The device comprises a client application that checks a non-transitory memory of the device for a web application access token corresponding to the client application, determines that the non-transitory memory does not store the web application access token, transmits a web application access token request via a cellular radio transceiver of the device to a Media Access Gateway (MAG), where the web application access token request comprises an identification of an Internet Protocol (IP) address allocated to the device when authenticating into a radio access network (RAN) by the cellular radio transceiver, receives a web application access token from the MAG, stores the web application access token in the non-transitory memory, and sends a request to access a web application comprising the web application access token to a web application server, where the web application server is different from the MAG.

Mobile phone client application authentication through media access gateway (MAG)

A method of accessing services from a mobile communication device. The method comprises presenting service visual representations on a display of the device, wherein each of the service visual representations provides an interface for invoking a service, selecting advertisements for media content from a media content repository, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on the device, presenting the selected advertisements as thumbnail images on the display of the device, wherein each thumbnail image is coupled to metadata that define methods for invoking at least some of the services associated with the service visual representations, and when a first thumbnail image associated with a first selected advertisement is selected and dragged to the position of a first service visual representation, invoking a first service associated with the first service visual representation based on a method defined by metadata coupled to the first thumbnail image.

Method of accessing services from a mobile communication device

A computer for identifying categories of web pages. The computer comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and an application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor the application builds an unvalidated table of uniform resource locators (URLs) in the non-transitory memory based on crawling the World Wide Web, navigates to at least some of the URLs stored in the unvalidated table, analyzes web pages to identify keywords, evaluates the URLs to belong to one or more web page categories using web page categorization rules based on the identified keywords, stores an entry for each evaluated URL in a validated table in the non-transitory memory, each entry comprising the URL, the one or more categories associated to the URL, and the keywords identified in the web page associated to the URL, performs a frequency analysis of keywords associated to URLs, and adapts the web page categorization rules.

Automated categorization of web pages

A broadcasting system having a transmitter that broadcasts a one-way signal is provided. The one-way signal is embedded with data that is transmitted to a device that is enabled with near field communication (NFC) technology. The NFC-enabled device may then transfer at least a portion of the transmitted embedded data to another NFC-enabled device by bringing the NFC-enabled devices into close proximity to each other.

Broadcast near field communication to mobile device

A mobile access terminal providing access to data in a secure element of the mobile access terminal is provided. The mobile access terminal comprises the secure element; a web browser; a near field communications system; an over-the-air proxy; an application programming interface layer; and a web server residing on a secure storage area of the mobile access terminal, wherein the web browser is provided with exclusive access to the web server.

Web server bypass of backend process on near field communications and secure element chips

A method is provided for secure access to a smart card application. An alert is received related to a mobile device having the smart card application. Access by the mobile device to the smart card application is restricted responsive to receiving the alert.

Providing secure access to smart card applications

Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for enabling and/or completing secure online credit card transactions. Transactions may involve the use of mobile devices wherein credit card information may be stored on the mobile device. The credit card information may be accessed and used to generate proxy credit card information, wherein the proxy information may be communicated during a transaction. The proxy credit card information may be generated by an application on the mobile device and may be communicated to and/or generated by the issuer/network of the original credit card.

Secure online credit card transactions

An apparatus for improving the safety of a driver while driving a car, the apparatus comprising a headset for combining an unobstructed view with a virtual overlay, the virtual overlay created from a virtual output provided to the headset, the virtual output having one or more portions, a memory, a processor, at least one input device coupled to the memory and capable of delivering input device data to the memory, an application stored in the memory that when executed by the processor determines characteristics of the driver or an environment around the driver based upon data from the at least one input device, and a controller that based on the determined characteristics performs one or more of the following: block a portion of the virtual output to the virtual overlay, alters at least a portion of the virtual output to the virtual overlay, or adds a new portion to the virtual output.

System and method for adaptive display restriction in a headset computer

A method comprises a server receiving a message from a device requesting content, reading a first time record for the previous receipt of content, comparing the first time record with a second time record for the content stored in cache, and sending, when the second time record is newer than the first time record, the requested content. When time records match, the device is advised of refresh time and to request later. When the message lacks a time record, the requested content is sent. When cache does not contain requested content, a data loader obtains content from a server. A message to the device advises the time to obtain the content and to request again later. When cache does not contain the content and the server is unavailable, the data loader determines the time of network availability. A message then advises of availability time and to request again later.

Dynamic scheduling of electronic content updates

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Robin Dale Katzer