Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Susan Kelly

Jian Huang

Fenglin Yin

Gong Zhang

Dahai Ren

Fengping Zhang

Guanrao Chen

Fnu Bongu Huma Shankar Rao

Shuai Wu

Ajit Nair

Ming Chen

Jae Won Chung

Hector Andres Saint-Hilaire

Chunyan Du

Hong Xiao

Zhong Chen

Okeno R Palmer

Mohammad Zohaib Akmal

Harshal Khandare

Gaurav Gupta

Manish Mohan Sharma

Feng Li

Raymond C Counterman

Momin Mirza

Fred Scheer

Gilda Majidi

Sayan Dey

Gyanesh Pandey

Ranjeev Mahtani

A device can receive, from a network device, information that identifies a user device. The network device might have authenticated the user device based on the user device accessing a radio access network. The device can receive, from the user device, a request for a first token. The request can include an encrypted session identifier. A server device might have encrypted the session identifier. The device can determine the session identifier, and generate the first token based on the session identifier and the information that identifies the user device. The device can encrypt the first token using an application public key, and provide, to the user device, the encrypted first token. The user device can provide, to the server device, the encrypted first token. The server device can register the user device to receive content based on the encrypted first token.

Network-based device registration for content distribution platforms

A device may receive information associated with media content that is capable of being provided by a first content delivery network and a second content delivery network. The first content delivery network may include a first host device and a second host device. The device may determine scores associated with the first content delivery network and the second content delivery network. The device may provide, based on the scores, information regarding the first content delivery to a user device to cause the user device to request the media content from the first content delivery network. The device may determine scores associated with the first host device and the second host device. The device may provide information regarding the first host device to a network device to cause the network device to route requests for the media content to the first host device.

Content delivery network streaming optimization

A device can receive, from a user device, a request associated with a data service that includes one or more service identifiers. The device can determine whether the data service is toll-free by providing, to a server, a validation request that includes the one or more service identifiers. The device can receive a response from the server that indicates that the user device is eligible to use the data service toll-free. The device can obtain an internet protocol (IP) address that is reserved for the data service by using a service identifier to search a data structure. The device can provide the IP address to the user device to allow the user device to use the IP address for a data session. Traffic flow for the data session can be received by another server that uses the IP address to update an account of an entity sponsoring the data service.

Content sponsorship based on internet protocol (IP) addresses

A device can receive, from a set of storage devices, first information relating to one or more pilot data plans that are associated with one or more first groups of user devices. The device can receive, from the set of storage devices, second information relating to one or more live data plans that are associated with one or more second groups of user devices. The device can analyze the first information and/or the second information to identify one or more patterns of information. The one or more patterns can include a data usage pattern, a demographic information pattern, a revenue generation pattern, and/or a user interest pattern. The device can perform one or more actions, including generating a new data plan, identifying one or more user accounts as candidates for a new data plan, and/or transmitting, via a network, information relating to the new data plan.

Analyzing big data to determine a data plan

A device may determine a resource identifier for accessing a segment of streaming media content. The device may determine that a signature associated with the resource identifier is not stored in memory. The signature may be generated based on a character string of the resource identifier. The device may request validation of the resource identifier based on determining that the signature is not in memory. The device may receive the signature associated with the resource identifier based on requesting validation. The device may store the signature based on receiving the signature. The device may request the segment of streaming media content using the resource identifier and the signature, stored in memory, to receive toll-free access to the segment of streaming media content.

Validating toll-free access to streaming media content using a signature

A device can be configured to receive a transmission control protocol (TCP) packet from a user device and determine, based on data included in a header portion of the TCP packet, that the TCP packet includes a toll-free token. The toll-free token included in the TCP packet can be identified, an entity associated with the toll-free token can be identified, and an action can be performed based on the entity.

Toll-free data management

A system may receive a content identifier corresponding to content to be accessed via a toll free data service (toll-free data service). The system may determine, based on the content identifier, whether a content provider device, associated with the content, is configured with a serving component associated with serving the content via the toll-free data service. The system may provide an indication of whether the content provider device is configured with the serving component. The content may be accessible via the toll-free data service when the content provider device is configured with the serving component.

Server-side plugin checker for toll-free data service

A native content handler in a user device, such as a smart phone, determines whether requested content may by delivered using special handling, such as prioritized or sponsored access. A listener of the content handler determines whether special handling may possibly be applicable to the content, and the listener modifies a universal resource locator (URL) associated with the content to mark the URL. An agent portion of the content handler exchanges data with a validation device to determine whether the user device is actually eligible to receive the content with the special handling. If the user device is eligible, the agent uses data provided by the validation device to obtain the content using the special handling.

Agent-based passive streaming

A first device may obtain a session time record that includes information relating to a secure session. The session time record may include a content identifier and a device identifier that is associated with a second device. The content identifier may be associated with content to be provided via a secure session and via the second device. The content may be associated with a sponsored data campaign. The first device may obtain, from the second device, data usage information identifying an amount of data provided via the second device and in association with the secure session. The first device may determine information identifying a party responsible for the amount of data provided in association with the secure session based on the session time record and based on the data usage information. The first device may store or provide the information identifying the party responsible for the amount of data.

Tracking data usage in a secure session

Methods and devices provide access to a sponsored data service (SDS) from a mobile device. A method may include generating a play media command that includes a remote media address and an SDS identifier, and converting the remote media address into a local media address. The method may further include requesting media from an internal content server via the local media address, where the internal content server resides within the mobile device. The method may include determining if the requested media is stored on the internal content server, obtaining the requested media from the internal content server upon determining that the requested media is stored within the internal content server, and playing the requested media on a mobile media player.

Mobile media architecture for sponsored data services

A device can determine a set of average vehicle entry rates using traffic data associated with an intersection and can determine a set of average vehicle wait time values. The device can generate one or more data structures that include a set of state values that include the set of average vehicle entry rates and a set of transition values. The device can determine a set of customer satisfaction rating values. The device can generate a prediction data structure that associates the set of state values with a set of traffic light cycle time values and one or more customer satisfaction rating values. The device can determine a current state value. The device can identify a state value and a traffic light cycle time value that is associated with a highest customer satisfaction rating. The device can provide the traffic light cycle time value to a traffic controller.

Analyzing big data to manage traffic flow

A device determines a connection status of a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) communication interface and a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) communication interface, and stores the connection status in a queue. The device waits, subsequent to storing the connection status, for expiration of a time delay; and retrieves, subsequent to the expiration of the time delay, the connection status or another connection status from the queue. The device sends, based on the retrieved connection status or the other connection status, a service validation request to a server associated with the PLMN, and receives from the server, in response to the service validation request, a validation response that authorizes service delivery to the device via a PLMN.

Network switching detection for toll-free data service provision

A device associated with a cell tower in a Public Land Mobile Network receives, from a mobile device via a network, a uniform resource locator (URL) that is appended with a first signature generated at the mobile device using a private key of a public/private key pair associated with a toll-free campaign. The device obtains a public key of the public/private key pair, extracts the first signature from the URL, decrypts the first signature using the public key to obtain data, and encrypts the data using the private key to generate a second signature. The device compares the second signature with the first signature, denies toll-free network access to content associated with the URL when the second signature does not match the first signature, and designates data involved with accessing the content associated with the URL as being toll-free when the second signature matches the first signature.

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