AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Delaware Intellectual Property Corporation, Inc.

Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation

At&t Bls Intellectual Property, Inc

Steven Allan Wright

Barrett Morris Kreiner

Edgar Vaughan Shrum, Jr

Thomas Arnold Anschutz

Christian Kuhtz

Scott Crandall Holt

Maria Adamczyk

Li Zhang

Neil Gilmartin

Samuel N Zellner

Robert Jackson Starr

Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr

Nicholas Steven Huslak

Jeffrey Patrick Cassanova

Scott Traynham Stillman

Alan Blackburn

Sammie Walter Hill

Randy Scott Zimler

Albert Whited

Barret M Kreiner

A method of operating a data network may include establishing a data path through the data network between a routing gateway and service provider equipment providing a data service. Moreover, the data service may be provided for use at the routing gateway over the data path during a data session. A request may be received from the service provider equipment where the request defines a data flow characteristic for the data path between the routing gateway and the service provider equipment providing the data service. The data flow characteristic may then be transmitted to a network element along the data path between the routing gateway and the service provider equipment. A request from service provider equipment can include an allowed bandwidth or prioritization. Related methods, data networks, data service providers, routing gateways, and computer program products are also discussed.

Methods of implementing dynamic quality of service or bandwidth provisioning

Methods, systems, and products adapt gaming applications to participants. Should one of the participants be a minor, for example, the gaming application may adapt to scenarios that are appropriate for minors. Similarly, the gaming application may adapt to customs associated with a country of a participant.

Adaptation of gaming applications to participants

Example methods disclosed herein include analyzing session records determined for wireless sessions associated with wireless devices operating in a wireless system to detect a service quality for a specified protocol type in a specified geographic coverage area of the wireless system. In some examples, the specified protocol type is defined by a first user input variable, and the specified geographic coverage area is defined by a second user input variable. Example methods disclosed herein also include reporting the service quality for the specified protocol type in the specified geographic coverage area to a first wireless device operating in the wireless system.

Computational syndrome detectors

A method of forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being displayed on an electronic reader to a designated recipient. The method includes electronically selecting a passage from the electronic document, and automatically associating metadata with a selected passage upon selection by the user. The method also includes storing the selected passage together with the associated metadata in a file in the memory of the electronic reader. The method further includes electronically checking the selected passage for compliance with special requirements. The method also includes electronically transmitting the stored selected passage and associated metadata from the electronic reader.

Forwarding selected document passages from an electronic reader

Example methods disclosed herein include analyzing session records associated with a wireless system to determine a time period between an access of a first wireless system resource by a wireless device and an access of a second wireless system resource by the wireless device. Example methods disclosed herein also include determining a rate at which the wireless device is traversing through a coverage area of the wireless system, the rate being determined based on the time period. Example methods disclosed herein further include generating a report including the rate.

Example methods disclosed herein to provide a map to a wireless device include, in response to a request received from the wireless device, processing wireless session records to determine respective status of a plurality of wireless services in a first geographic region associated with the wireless device. Disclosed example methods also include, based on the processing of the wireless session records, generating map data identifying a location of the wireless device, a status of a first one of the wireless services in a second geographic region included in the first geographic region, and a status of a second one of the wireless services in a third geographic region included in the first geographic region. Disclosed example methods further include transmitting the map data to the wireless device.

Personal wireless coverage maps

Example methods disclosed herein include analyzing session records associated with a wireless system resource to determine a number of wireless devices that accessed the wireless system resource over a first time period. Example methods disclosed herein also include determining a status of vehicular traffic along a section of roadway within a service range of the wireless system resource based on the number of wireless devices determined to have accessed the wireless system resource over the first time period. Example methods disclosed herein further include transmitting a report including the status of the vehicular traffic along the section of roadway to a first wireless device.

A method of forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being displayed on an electronic reader to a designated recipient. The method includes electronically selecting a passage from the electronic document, and automatically associating metadata with a selected passage upon selection by the user. The method also includes storing the selected passage together with the associated metadata in a file in the memory of the electronic reader. The method further includes electronically checking the selected passage for compliance with special requirements, the special requirements including a designated size of the selected passage, the special requirement of the designated size of the selected passage being of a variable size designated by the user based on user preference. The method also includes electronically transmitting the stored selected passage and associated metadata from the electronic reader to a designated recipient after completion of the electronic checking by the electronic reader.

A process for forwarding selected passages from an electronic document being presented on a portable electronic reader, where the electronic document has been previously downloaded into a memory of the electronic reader. The process permits a user of the electronic reader to electronically identify and select the passages from an electronic document being presented on the portable electronic reader. The process also includes the automatic association of metadata with a selected passage, where the metadata includes citation information identifying the presented electronic document as the source document. The selected passages and associated metadata are stored in the portable electronic reader, for subsequent transmission over the communications network to a designated recipient.

Example methods disclosed herein to monitor wireless system operation include processing a plurality of session records describing characteristics of wireless sessions in a coverage area of a wireless system to determine a first time interval for a first wireless device to propagate from a first access point in the coverage area to a second access point in the coverage area, determining a coverage area traversal rate for the first wireless device based on the first time interval, the coverage area traversal rate corresponding to a rate at which the first wireless device is traversing the coverage area, and providing a wireless service advisory for the coverage area to a second wireless device based on the coverage area traversal rate for the first wireless device.

Computational syndrome detector

Methods and systems respectively provide for receiving a wireless signal coverage map request from a wireless device. A map is generated in accordance with the request and provided to the wireless device. The map includes symbology keyed to wireless signal services within a particular geographic area. Such symbology can be indicative of recommended areas and travel routes having particular types of wireless signal coverage, regions of poor or non-existent wireless signal service, areas presently experiencing heavy wireless signal usage, and so on. In this way, a wireless device user can seek to access specific wireless services and/or avoid suspect trouble regions within a geographic area.

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Roswell, GA, United States of America

Steven Allan Wright