Patents by Inventor Janis Rae Putman

Janis Rae Putman 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).

  • Communication application server for converged communication services
    Patent number: 9015297
    Abstract: A communication application server for supporting converged communications in a communication system. The communication application server is responsive to communication service requests from external endpoints, applications or other c requesting entities, and in one embodiment comprises at least first and second components. The first component is operative: (i) to process a given one of the communication service requests to identify at least one corresponding communication service supported by the communication application server, (ii) to determine one or more executable communication tasks associated with the identified communication service; and (iii) to establish communication with one or more external servers to carry out execution of at least a subset of the one or more executable communication taks associated with the communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Janis Rae Putman, Mai-Huong Nguyen, Thomas C. Hanson, Suchitra Srinivasan
  • Communications services for business process design
    Patent number: 7870184
    Abstract: A business process software program is executed in a processing element comprising a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is operative to identify within the software program one or more communications services inserted as generic design elements therein, and for each of the identified communications services, to initiate the execution of one or more corresponding communications tasks. At least one of the communications services may comprise a composite communications service which itself comprises a plurality of communications services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Bauer, Cynthia Hiatt, Erik J. Johnson, Praveen Kumar Mamnani, Mai-Huong Nguyen, Janis Rae Putman, Ross Yakulis
  • Communication application server for converged communication services
    Publication number: 20080086564
    Abstract: A communication application server for supporting converged communications in a communication system. The communication application server is responsive to communication service requests from external endpoints, applications or other c requesting entities, and in one embodiment comprises at least first and second components. The first component is operative: (i) to process a given one of the communication service requests to identify at least one corresponding communication service supported by the communication application server, (ii) to determine one or more executable communication tasks associated with the identified communication service; and (iii) to establish communication with one or more external servers to carry out execution of at least a subset of the one or more executable communication taks associated with the communication service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Janis Rae Putman, Mai-Huong Nguyen, Thomas C. Hanson, Suchitra Srinivasan