Paul S Dawkins

6778653, Aug 17, 2004

Nov 9, 1999

09/436563

Michel Kallas - Allen TX
James Michael Lyell - Garland TX
Paul Spencer Dawkins - Allen TX

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04M 342

37920102, 37920105

A communications system includes nodes and terminals capable of being involved in a telephony session. Telephony cookies may be created in telephony sessions between a calling terminal and a called terminal. The telephony cookies may be created by the called terminal and sent to the calling terminal for storage. Contents of the telephony cookie may include identifiers of the calling terminal and the called terminal. Other contents may include the date and time the cookie was created, expiration data and time of the cookie, and a data field that can store other types of information relating to telephony sessions.

20230126595, Apr 27, 2023

Oct 19, 2022

17/969230

- Palo Alto CA, US
Paul Spencer Dawkins - Garland TX, US
Arianne Hinds - Palo Alto CA, US

Tencent America LLC - Palo Alto CA

G06F 13/40
G06F 9/50

A method for receiving, by a plurality of user devices within a Local Area Network (LAN), a request to create a local cloud within the LAN, selecting, by one of the plurality of user devices, a master device from among the plurality of user devices, and one or more devices from among the plurality of user devices based on a resource availability, requesting, by the master device, each of the one or more devices to share resources of the device for the local cloud, and configuring, by the master device, the one or more devices as the local cloud. The master device receives a service request for a service to be performed by the local cloud, and distributes a plurality of tasks corresponding to the service to the one or more devices configured as the local cloud according to the resource availability of the one or more devices.