AT&T Trying to Protect Transferring Data Through Human Body
One patent application we look at in this column features a system of increasing wireless data transmission security by sending data signals through a user’s body. An issued patent protects AT&T’s...
View ArticleAT&T Seeks Patents on E-mail Self Destruct and 3D Media Content
Many of these documents that we look through today deal with mobile wireless technology and media presentations. One patent application describes a system of analyzing a person’s geographical location...
View ArticleAT&T Seeks Patent to Prevent Crime on Gaming Networks
Our featured patent application today describes a system of preventing illegal and criminal activities on gaming networks by preventing predatory users from being able to come into contact with others...
View ArticleAT&T Awarded Patents on Internet Protocol Television Services
Today’s featured patent application discusses a system of making mobile device communication more effective between parties. This application would protect a system that can analyze a device owner’s...
View ArticleThe Future of TV: Internet Television Tech on the Rise
Globally, there were about 66 million IPTV subscribers as of June 2012, and that amount is expected to rise to 102 million by 2018… It appears that subscriber content preferences are going to have much...
View ArticleAT&T Patents Personalized Information Services System
The featured application is a continuation of a patent application that matured into a patent for AT&T in December 2013, some 9 years after it was first filed. The file history shows that after...
View ArticleAT&T Seeks Patent for Creating and Implementing a Mobile Privacy Zone
We begin today by sharing our featured patent application with our readers, a technology designed to create a privacy zone to disable unauthorized functions in mobile devices which are within the zone....
View ArticleFTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises
The Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court complaint against AT&T Mobility, LLC, charging that the company has misled millions of its smartphone customers by charging them for “unlimited”...
View ArticleAT&T Innovations Focus on Interactive TV and Biometric Screening
What we saw when putting together our most recent Companies We Follow feature on AT&T showed us a great collection of innovations regarding television services. Interactive television services were...
View ArticleTop 10 Patents for 2014
Today, we’re picking the best inventions for which corporations from the Companies We Follow series have actually earned patent rights from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Alternative energies,...
View ArticleDr. Thomas Mensah: An innovator of fiber optics technologies
Although the history of fiber optics includes a long list of engineers and inventors making contributions over decades, Dr. Mensah’s particular improvements to the process of making fiber optic cables...
View ArticleRovi, AT&T and Microsoft have largest video on-demand patent portfolios
The navigation and guidance technologies protected by Rovi’s IP holdings have been incorporated into a wide array of electronics such as set-top boxes, digital video recorders, tablets and other mobile...
View ArticleZTE and BlackBerry have largest smartphone security portfolios, but others...
In the world of smartphones, it’s looking like paranoia is becoming much more profitable in recent years. Huge security breaches at major corporations around the world have made people everywhere much...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Wheeler bullish on broadband future and net neutrality impact
The nature of broadband has been changing in a way that Wheeler believes will spur even more robust data services in the near future. The FCC is taking a number of steps to try and promote competition...
View ArticleAT&T’s merger with DirecTV leads to an increase in television service...
Prevention of the unauthorized use of television services is also reflected in U.S. Patent No. 9124933, entitled Method and System for Detecting Unauthorized Use of a Set Top Box Using Expected...
View ArticleAmerican high tech companies take charge as the world’s most valuable brands
The top two spots on the list of the 100 most valuable brands are occupied this year, as last year, by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), respectively. These two companies have...
View ArticleAutomation will cause worker displacement but will also create jobs
Google, now Alphabet Inc., is one of the world’s most valuable companies but employs only a tenth of the number of workers of past giants of industry like AT&T and General Motors did about a half...
View ArticleData center sector gets more crowded with names like IBM, Cisco, Microsoft...
The subsea data center operations will be cooled by the surrounding water and designs with turbines or tidal energy systems, which would further reduce electricity costs, have been considered. Although...
View ArticleLooking at text blockers and textalyzers during Distracted Driving Awareness...
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and many organizations are gearing up their pitch for greater safety on the roads by avoiding the need to text or take a phone call while driving. Here on...
View ArticleFCC spectrum auction gets underway, seeks to clear 126 MHz for wireless...
The incentive auction being conducted by the FCC is a two-part process. First, at the end of May, the agency began conducting a reverse auction which sought 126 MHz of relinquished broadcast spectrum...
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