Patents by Inventor Farooq Ijaz Cheema

Farooq Ijaz Cheema 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).

  • Patent number: 7660402
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for managing telecommunication trunk groups. Configuration, operational, and other information may be maintained regarding trunk groups in a telecommunication network. Various calculations and searches may be performed using the information maintained regarding the trunk groups of telecommunication network and provided to a user to allow a user to identify the performance of various trunk groups. The present invention may further allow a user to propose changes to the configuration or routing associated with one or more trunk groups and provide a user with predicted outcomes should such changes be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC
    Inventors: Zyad Ahmad Dwekat, Jeffrey M. Fries, Farooq Ijaz Cheema, John Lowe
  • Patent number: 7336639
    Abstract: A trunk-group request tool automates the process of manually receiving and analyzing trunk-group circuits pertaining to switch circuits located within a switch facility of a communications network. An embodiment of the computer-implemented method includes receiving a switch or vendor identifier from a data structure, presenting records of information of one or more trunk groups associated with the identifier(s), receiving one or more trunk-group attributes from one or more entry fields, populating a data structure by aggregating one or more records of information of a data structure of the switch and vendor identifier with one or more trunk-group attributes, providing an input field for receiving additional data to supplement one or more records of information or one or more trunk-group attributes, and presenting a report adhering to a predefined format using the information of the data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Embarq Holdings Company, LLC
    Inventors: Zyad Ahmad Dwekat, Jeffrey M. Fries, Farooq Ijaz Cheema, John A. Lowe