Patents by Inventor Jedrick J. Weldon

Jedrick J. Weldon 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).

  • Method, computer program product, and apparatus for collecting service level agreement statistics in a communication network
    Publication number: 20030198235
    Abstract: A probing router is used at a source site of a virtual private network. In-band probing operations are performed by components within the probing router, using processing resources available from a router engine portion of the probing router. In this way, changes in the network and service level agreement statistic collection processes may be quickly and easily accommodated within the probing router. Furthermore, the probing router communicates the probe message through an in-band communication channel so as to provide a direct measurement of service level data for the channel used for communicating information between the source site and a destination site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: MCI WORLDCOM, INC.
    Inventors: Jedrick J. Weldon, Joshua Osborne
  • Method, computer program product, and apparatus for collecting service level agreement statistics in a communication network
    Patent number: 6366563
    Abstract: A probing router is used at a source site of a virtual private network. In-band probing operations are performed by components within the probing router, using processing resources available from a router engine portion of the probing router. In this way, changes in the network and service level agreement statistic collection processes may be quickly and easily accommodated within the probing router. Furthermore, the probing router communicates the probe message through an in-band communication channel so as to provide a direct measurement of service level data for the channel used for communicating information between the source site and a destination site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: MCI WorldCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Jedrick J. Weldon, Joshua Osborne