Hossein Eslambolchi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• CEO at 2020 venture partners

A method and apparatus for storing financial data utilizing a communications network is described. In one embodiment, provisioning access is provided to a plurality of unrelated financial entities. The financial data received from the plurality of unrelated financial entities are stored in a secure data store, e.g., a secure network based mailbox.

A method and apparatus for enabling service providers to offer businesses to advertise using commercials over streaming video contents to interact with interested consumers on a real time basis are disclosed. Specifically, users who request a video session from the network may be exposed to commercial content while viewing the video content via a t...

A secure computing system includes a plurality of application nodes, each node including a device address, a platform address, and a node ID. A mapping is maintained between each of the node IDs and the platform addresses. A mapping is also maintained between each of the platform addresses and the device addresses. An analyzer analyzes communicatio...

A method and apparatus for enabling consumers to scan RFID tags using home based endpoint devices that can transmit the scanned information to network based services are disclosed. Using the RFID scanned information, consumers can then access, retrieve and view additional information regarding products, in which RFIDs are embedded, on video display...

A method and apparatus for generating at least one bill in a packet network is described. In one embodiment, a request to change a billing cycle is received by an application server from a customer via a packet network. The billing cycle is subsequently changed to a modified billing cycle in accordance to the received request. Lastly, at least one...

A method includes issuing a retrieval instruction, such as a database query, to retrieve from a database system a datum associated with a network circuit established outside of the United States. Upon receiving the datum from the database system, it is determined, based on the datum retrieved, whether the network circuit is incurring a charge. It i...

A method and system for authenticating access to a protected application are disclosed. For example, the method receives from a protected application a request by a user to gain access to the protected application. In one embodiment, the request contains an identification of the user and an identification of at least one media device of the user. T...

A method and apparatus for providing subscribers of network services to enjoy in a virtual environment the experience of visitors who physically visit cultural landmarks, e.g., museums around the world are disclosed. These visitors often rent audio equipment to walk through popular exhibits as they listen to recorded information about each display....

An arrangement compensates for the fact that multiple entities may generate distinct call data records for the same call. In the arrangement a consolidated call data records database receives multiple call data records and analyzes them to determine which, if any, are related to the same call. Where multiple call data records are discovered to be a...

A method and system is disclosed for providing service level operational status associated with a complex information technology infrastructure. The method in accordance with the present invention allows a user to quickly determine the functionality of assets associated with the service level of a multi-tiered infrastructure, and to review status h...

A method allows access to a set of secure databases and database applications over an untrusted network without replicating the secure database. The method involves authenticating a user using a first authentication application. When the user is verified, then the user's credentials are directed to a second authentication application associated wit...

A method and apparatus for enabling a user to invite one or more participants in a SoIP network to join a shared video session hosted by the user are disclosed. The present method allows a user to order and store video selections in the network that the user can access later using a personal password. In one embodiment, for all the other users who...

A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a data base search engine to retrieve a top n pages from...

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FASTAR is a fast automatic restoration system for restoring AT&T DS3 services (in the event of a cable failure). Its deployment has helped to reduce restoration times significantly. Reliable operations throughout a cable failure event is the key to the success of the restoration process. Since the hardware components involved during restoration var...

FASTAR is a robust, reliable, fast-response system for automated network restoration, now fully deployed and operational throughout the AT&T digital transport network. FASTAR reduces by orders of magnitude the average service outage time that customers experience as a result of transmission failures. Its architecture combines centralized and distri...

FASTAR is a robust, reliable, fast-response system for automated network restoration. FASTAR is expected to reduce by orders of magnitude the average service outage time that customers experience as a result of transmission failures. The FASTAR architecture combines centralized and distributed intelligence to provide full automation of the three ma...

A statistical model to evaluate the feasibility of installing high-capacity digital radios in the 6-GHz short-haul microwave network is presented. Improvement in network performance due to installation of high-capacity radios can be determined by estimating the number of acceptable hops that meet system requirements for multipath fading outage. Cas...

It is well known that normal mode coupling in large diameter piezoelectric plates causes serious difficulties when attempting to operate over wide frequency bands. As a consequence transducers are commonly constructed as a mosaic of elemental resonators, each of which has a predominant single mode of mechanical oscillation at the frequency of inter...