Patents by Inventor Harold Jeffrey Stewart
Harold Jeffrey Stewart 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).
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Patent number: 8010788Abstract: For each process a stack data structure that includes two stacks, which are joined at their bases, is created. The two stacks include a normal stack, which grows downward, and an inverse stack, which grows upward. Items on the stack data structure are segregated into protected and unprotected classes. Protected items include frame pointers and return addresses, which are stored on the normal stack. Unprotected items are function parameters and local variables. The unprotected items are stored on the inverse stack.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, LPInventors: Michael L. Asher, Charles C. Giddens, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7996423Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with data objects is presented to an end user. Selecting a data object generates a query performed by a server. Each query produces more details on an initially selected data object.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: David Lee Applegate, Maksym Badrak, Hossein Eslambolchi, John R. Perkins, Nicholas F. Reingold, Vitaly Smirnoff, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7852780Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing facility-based aerial displays to field personnel in support of repairing outside network facilities. The invention relates to a method and system for displaying a series of selected frames to generate a display of surroundings within the vicinity of a cable break. Frames are selected and manipulated in accordance with a significance level which accepts or rejects the frame and in accordance with a set of display parameters selected by a dispatcher. The aerial display is compiled and displayed to support the assessment of the surroundings to be encountered by a repair crew.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Hossein Eslambolchi, Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Alexander Novokshanov, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7844677Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method and apparatus is presented for alerting an operator of a network problem using a variety of contact devices. A server receives notification of a network problem. The server accesses presence information detailing the current location of an operator. The server then uses push technology to transmit alert information to the operator. As such, the alert information may be communicated directly to a client machine used by the operator. In the case where the operator is communicating through a contact device, which communicates with an interactive system, the alert information is forwarded to the interactive system, which communicates with the contact device.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual II, L.P.Inventors: Michael L. Asher, Hossein Eslambolchi, Charles C. Giddens, Christopher Rollin Giles, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Publication number: 20100217773Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with data objects is presented to an end user. Selecting a data object generates a query performed by a server. Each query produces more details on an initially selected data object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: David Lee Applegate, Maksym Badrak, Hossein Eslambolchi, John R. Perkins, Nicholas F. Reingold, Vitaly Smirnoff, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7773095Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for wireless and network based mapping method and system for supporting field personnel to access, select and download facilities related maps and related information. Mapping files are manipulated in accordance with a grid block overlay over a first level map display. Each of the grid blocks is uniquely identifiable and indexed with one or more algorithms necessary for the local creation of an enhanced and/or enlarged second level of display.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Maksym Badrak, Hossein Eslambolchi, Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Charles C. Giddens, Jacquenetta M. Mason, Udaya Bhaskar Natha, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Publication number: 20100125560Abstract: System frameworks and methods are described that convert textual location data into physical location data and perform precise operations upon the results regardless of the uncertainty inherent within the data. Embodiments may yield one or more location candidate and per-candidate uncertainty data is natively preserved in a manner which allows precise statements to be made against the imprecise location data. The data representation of the geocoding result is not a single latitude-longitude coordinate, but one or more polygons or a polypolygon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: Michael Asher, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Publication number: 20100095069Abstract: For each process a stack data structure that includes two stacks, which are joined at their bases, is created. The two stacks include a normal stack, which grows downward, and an inverse stack, which grows upward. Items on the stack data structure are segregated into protected and unprotected classes. Protected items include frame pointers and return addresses, which are stored on the normal stack. Unprotected items are function parameters and local variables. The unprotected items are stored on the inverse stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: Michael L. Asher, Charles C. Giddens, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7660985Abstract: For each process a stack data structure that includes two stacks, which are joined at their bases, is created. The two stacks include a normal stack, which grows downward, and an inverse stack, which grows upward. Items on the stack data structure are segregated into protected and unprotected classes. Protected items include frame pointers and return addresses, which are stored on the normal stack. Unprotected items are function parameters and local variables. The unprotected items are stored on the inverse stack.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2004Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Michael L. Asher, Charles C. Giddens, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7624100Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method of data drilling is presented. A network database is deployed in a network, such as the Internet, for broad-based user access. Network information is stored in the network database and is organized in layers. A graphical user interface with data objects is presented to an end user. Selecting a data object generates a query performed by a server. Each query produces more details on an initially selected data object.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: David Lee Applegate, Maksym Badrak, Hossein Eslambolchi, John R. Perkins, Nicholas F. Reingold, Vitaly Smirnoff, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7447749Abstract: A method and tool for managing network infrastructure is presented. The tool provides information related to infrastructure of international networks, including facilities and equipment, and enables the display of such information. The information can be displayed in both geographic and tabular form. The equipment includes international as well as proprietary equipment, and information describes the relationship between the two.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Jagannath Harati, Jacquenetta M. Mason, Vitaly Smirnoff, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7440694Abstract: An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a network element taken out of service for “planned maintenance” activities are removed prior to performing the final count. Additionally, outage minutes for a “lower level” element (such as, for example an OC1 element) that overlap in time with outage minutes reported for a “high level” element are likewise removed before the count is performed. The elimination of these non-service impacting outage minutes thus results in a more accurate reporting of the actual service impact of the counted outage minutes.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Hossein Eslambolchi, Kerrie L. Linker, Alexander Novokshanov, Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Denis Sergeyevich Yankin
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Patent number: 7313324Abstract: An accurate method of reporting “minutes of outage” for a SONET facility applies a set of business rules and hierarchical definitions to delete certain minutes that would otherwise be counted as “outages”. In particular, any outage minutes reported for a network element taken out of service for “planned maintenance” activities are removed prior to performing the final count. Additionally, outage minutes for a “lower level” element (such as, for example an OC1 element) that overlap in time with outage minutes reported for a “high level” element are likewise removed before the count is performed. The elimination of these non-service impacting outage minutes thus results in a more accurate reporting of the actual service impact of the counted outage minutes.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Hossein Eslambolchi, Kerrie L. Linker, Alexander Novokshanov, Harold Jeffrey Stewart, Denis Sergeyevich Yankin
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Patent number: 7269796Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method is presented for viewing information acquired from an integrated network. A plurality of modules (client/server methods) is used by an end user to access information in the integrated network. The information is accessed from databases distributed across the network. A client/server method (i.e., module) utilizes a key to search for information across distributed databases. The information is then returned to the client for viewing in a window based on the mode selected for viewing. For example, the information may be viewed as text in information mode, as images in photo mode, as images in CAD mode, or as a video in video mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Jason N. Bayes, Muthaya M. Cheranda, Hossein Eslambolchi, Christopher Rollin Giles, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7231415Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for providing facility-based aerial displays to field personnel in support of repairing outside network facilities. The invention relates to a method and system for displaying a series of selected frames to generate a display of surroundings within the vicinity of a cable break. Frames are selected and manipulated in accordance with a significance level which accepts or rejects the frame and in accordance with a set of display parameters selected by a dispatcher. The aerial display is compiled and displayed to support the assessment of the surroundings to be encountered by a repair crew.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Hossein Eslambolchi, Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Alexander Novokshanov, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 7002580Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for automatically generating charts, preferably in Microsoft® Excel format, for the users to be able to better analyze the network data. All the functions needed to generate are performed at the network server without installing any additional components on user's server, thereby independent of any third party software. Furthermore, minimal user input is required using any kind of application without modifications.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: AT&T CorpInventors: Ramakrishna Aggala, Udaya Bhaskar Natha, Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Charles C. Giddens, Jacquenetta M. Mason, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 6965309Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a method is presented for displaying power and heat faults that occur in a network. A server initiates a variety of power alarm display methods. Each method is directed at receiving specific types of power alarm information and displaying or inhibiting the display of this information on a wallboard. The methods operate simultaneously and update the wallboard with power alarm information in near real time. Further, the methods continue to operate and update the display of the power alarm information when tickets associated with the alarms are received or when an operator acknowledges the alarm.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Peter P. Bleznyk, John Steven Engelmann, Hossein Eslambolchi, Charles C. Giddens, David H. Lu, Kenneth James Smith, Anthony M. Srdar, Harold Jeffrey Stewart, John Vincent Wilson
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Patent number: 6958690Abstract: The present invention provides a most efficient, automated, fast and least expensive method and apparatus for processing the dig ticket alerts to prevent damage of underground facilities. All the functions required to process the ticket alerts are handled by one system called the geolink (geographical link to data) fiber integrity, i.e. GFI. The processing includes checking the ticket alerts for a dig location, automatically closing the ticket alerts if the dig location is not touching a cable buffer and forwarding the ticket alerts to the technician responsible for the ticket alert if the dig location is touching the cable buffer. The GFI system will receive and process thousands of dig ticket alerts on a daily basis without depending on any other system.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Michael L. Asher, Udaya Bhaskar Natha, Charles C. Giddens, Lloyd Lester Magown, Jr., Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Publication number: 20040255146Abstract: For each process a stack data structure that includes two stacks, which are joined at their bases, is created. The two stacks include a normal stack, which grows downward, and an inverse stack, which grows upward. Items on the stack data structure are segregated into protected and unprotected classes. Protected items include frame pointers and return addresses, which are stored on the normal stack. Unprotected items are function parameters and local variables. The unprotected items are stored on the inverse stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Michael L. Asher, Charles C. Giddens, Harold Jeffrey Stewart
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Publication number: 20040221028Abstract: A method and tool for managing network infrastructure is presented. The tool provides information related to infrastructure of international networks, including facilities and equipment, and enables the display of such information. The information can be displayed in both geographic and tabular form. The equipment includes international as well as proprietary equipment, and information describes the relationship between the two.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: Bala Surya Siva Sri Gaddamanugu, Jagannath Harati, Jacquenetta M. Mason, Vitaly Smirnoff, Harold Jeffrey Stewart