Patents by Inventor Douglas Gerard Lauer

Douglas Gerard Lauer 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).

  • Signaling network management system for converting network events into standard form and then correlating the standard form events with topology and maintenance information
    Patent number: 6118936
    Abstract: A signaling network management system (SNMS) collects network topology, traffic, performance and fault information, correlates that information and displays the information to system operators. It includes a distributed client/server platform that receives and processes information relating to network events that is generated by various signaling network elements. Each network event is parsed and formatted to a standardized format to allow processing of events generated by any type of element. The formatted events are correlated and displayed to system operators. Correlation of the different types of events is performed using programmable analysis rules. The system also correlates signaling network events with transmission alarms and network maintenance schedule information. This allows the system operators to account for outages due to transmission events, such as fiber cuts, and to network maintenance. It also allows operator to worn maintenance personnel of maintenance impacting events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Gerard Lauer, Michael Robert Smith