Joseph F Sommer, Age 844157 Hearthstone Dr, Sarasota, FL 34238

7657622, Feb 2, 2010

Dec 23, 2003

10/743430

Frederick Douglis - Basking Ridge NJ, US
David H. Shur - Holmdel NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe - New Providence NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - Reno NV

G06F 15/173

709224, 709226

A service model, integrated system, and method for enabling a service provider to deliver an integrated web hosting and content distribution service offering, which affords assured operational performance service levels, regardless of whether the customer's web site is served by the service provider's hosting center, the service provider's content distribution network (CDN), by a third party web host, or by a third party CDN. A monitoring system of the primary service provider receives detailed capacity and health statistics from any CDN under the operational control of the primary service provider, receives aggregate capacity and health statistics from other CDNs not under the operational control of the primary service provider. A redirection system then decides to which web host, content distribution network, or combination thereof, user requests for content are directed in order that operational performance service levels are maintained.

8010369, Aug 30, 2011

Oct 30, 2007

11/929408

Joseph A. Alfred - Somerset NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Atlanta GA

G10L 21/06

704275

A system, method and computer-readable medium for controlling devices connected to a network. The method includes receiving an utterance from a user for remotely controlling a device in a network; converting the received utterance to text using an automatic speech recognition module; accessing a user profile in the network that governs access to a plurality of devices on the network and identifiers which control a conversion of the text to a device specific control language; identifying based on the text a device to be controlled; converting at least a portion of the text to the device control language; and transmitting the device control language to the identified device, wherein the identified device implements a function based on the transmitted device control language.

8126969, Feb 28, 2012

Mar 8, 2005

11/075568

Robert J. Hall - Berkeley Heights NJ, US
Joseph Michael Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - Atlanta GA

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30

709206, 726 26

Disclosed is a system and method for policy based dissemination control of controlled content (e. g. , electronic messages). Upon detection at a receiving device that a user is attempting further dissemination (e. g. , forwarding) of controlled content, the receiving device sends a query to a policy control server. The policy control server uses the information received in the query to perform a database lookup in order to determine dissemination control instructions. The dissemination control instructions are sent to the receiving device and the receiving device enforces the instructions with respect to the attempted dissemination. The dissemination control instructions may, for example, allow further dissemination, deny further dissemination, or allow further dissemination only upon receipt of permission from the content owner. The dissemination control instructions may also indicate that the content owner is to be notified of the attempted dissemination.

8155583, Apr 10, 2012

Oct 31, 2006

11/590081

Joseph A. Alfred - Somerset NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - Atlanta GA

H04B 7/185

455 121, 370312, 455 306, 455101

A method and apparatus for providing broadband signals to a portable user device is disclosed. Broadband signals, such as satellite radio signals, are received at a base station having a plurality of antennas. The content of the broadband signals are then encoded using space time coding (STC), and the STC encoded broadband content is transmitted from the plurality of antennas via a first wireless network protocol. The STC encoded broadband content can be received at a portable user device having a plurality of antennas or at a wireless access point having a plurality of antennas, which then transmit the broadband signals via a second wireless network protocol.

8176172, May 8, 2012

Aug 12, 2009

12/540137

Frederick Douglis - Basking Ridge NJ, US
David H. Shur - Holmdel NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe - New Providence NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. - Atlanta GA

G06F 15/173

709224, 709226

A service model, integrated system, and method for enabling a service provider to deliver an integrated web hosting and content distribution service offering, which affords assured operational performance service levels, regardless of whether the customer's web site is served by the service provider's hosting center, the service provider's content distribution network (CDN), by a third party web host, or by a third party CDN. A monitoring system of the primary service provider receives detailed capacity and health statistics from any CDN under the operational control of the primary service provider, receives aggregate capacity and health statistics from other CDNs not under the operational control of the primary service provider. A redirection system then decides to which web host, content distribution network, or combination thereof, user requests for content are directed in order that operational performance service levels are maintained.

8244543, Aug 14, 2012

Aug 27, 2011

13/219655

Joseph A. Alfred - Somerset NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Atlanta GA

G10L 21/00

704275

A system, method and computer-readable medium for using speech recognition to control devices connected to a network. The system converts an utterance from a user for controlling a remote device in a network to a device specific control language associated with the remote device, to yield a remote device communication. Next, the system synthesizes a response from the remote device that is based at least in part on the remote device communication, to yield an audible response. The system then communicates the audible response to the user.

8307402, Nov 6, 2012

Jan 22, 2008

12/017568

Joseph Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Atlanta GA

H04N 7/173

725106, 725110, 725122, 725137, 725141, 725 34, 379 9323, 37914216, 379 8813, 37910203

A method and apparatus that enable the use of a multi-service endpoint device to integrate features and functions of voice and/or data services with IPTV service through a TV console are disclosed. For example, the method connects a multi-service endpoint device (MSED) to a plurality of networks, where at least one of the plurality of networks provides a voice service, and where at least one of the plurality of networks provides an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service. The method then integrates the voice service with the IPTV service using the MSED.

8527884, Sep 3, 2013

Dec 19, 2008

12/339889

Joseph Anderson Alfred - Somerset NJ, US
Joseph M. Sommer - Rutherford NJ, US

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. - Atlanta GA

G06F 3/00

715738, 715745

Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for browsing based on user recognition. The method includes receiving input from a user, verifying a user identity based on the input, identifying a browsing device of the user, retrieving a user profile associated with the user and the identified browsing device, the profile storing browser settings, and launching a browser on the identified browsing device with browser settings from the retrieved user profile. The input can be speech. The user identity can be verified by network-based speaker recognition. The method can further automatically update the user profile based on user actions. In one aspect, the method further identifies a preferred browser in the user profile, provisions a version of the preferred browser adapted to the identified browsing device, and launches the provisioned preferred browser on the identified browsing device with settings from the retrieved user profile.