Patents by Inventor Brian Whitton

Brian Whitton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Optical network terminal agent
    Patent number: 8064764
    Abstract: A method is provided including the steps of monitoring at least one performance metric of at least one network component in an optical network system, determining whether the at least one network component is a rogue network component using the at least one performance metric, saving environment data to a non-volatile storage medium, and modifying the operation of the rogue network component to reduce interference of the rogue network component with the optical network system. In another embodiment, a method includes detecting a condition of a network component in an optical network system, and writing environment data of the network component to a non-volatile storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Verizon Services Organization Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent A. O'Byrne, Brian Whitton
  • OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL AGENT
    Publication number: 20080138064
    Abstract: A method is provided including the steps of monitoring at least one performance metric of at least one network component in an optical network system, determining whether the at least one network component is a rogue network component using the at least one performance metric, saving environment data to a non-volatile storage medium, and modifying the operation of the rogue network component to reduce interference of the rogue network component with the optical network system. In another embodiment, a method includes detecting a condition of a network component in an optical network system, and writing environment data of the network component to a non-volatile storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: Verizon Services Organization Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent A. O'Byrne, Brian Whitton