Patents by Inventor Joseph Thomas Stango

Joseph Thomas Stango 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: 8670321
    Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to reroute Internet Protocol traffic include, after detecting a defect in a first communication path for routing user traffic associated with a network user, causing a router to buffer the user traffic for a first time period having a first duration before causing the router to reroute the user traffic over a second communication path, the first duration based on a first threshold. Such example methods also include, after detecting correction of the defect, causing the router to continue to route the user traffic over the second communication path for a second time period having a second duration before causing the router to revert to routing the user traffic over the first communication path, the second duration based on a second threshold, the first and second thresholds being adjustable based on a number of cycles of network defects and network corrections counted within a tracking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Owen Nutto Gottwerth, Margaret T. Chiosi, Joseph Thomas Stango
  • Patent number: 8331235
    Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, and methods to reroute Internet Protocol traffic based on network user preferences are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes detecting a network defect in a first communication path, receiving IP traffic associated with a network user at a router, wherein the IP traffic is to be routed by the router over the first communication path, and buffering the IP traffic associated with the network user during a first time period having a first duration defined by the network user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marc Owen Nutto Gottwerth, Margarat T. Chlasl, Joseph Thomas Stango
  • Publication number: 20100142369
    Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, and methods to reroute Internet Protocol traffic based on network user preferences are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes detecting a network defect in a first communication path, receiving IP traffic associated with a network user at a router, wherein the IP traffic is to be routed by the router over the first communication path, and buffering the IP traffic associated with the network user during a first time period having a first duration defined by the network user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Marc Owen Nutto Gottwerth, Margarat T. Chlasl, Joseph Thomas Stango