Patents by Inventor Paula Marie Holwell

Paula Marie Holwell 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).

  • Transaction management for interworking between disparate networks
    Patent number: 7333505
    Abstract: The present invention enables a data-driven, dynamic transaction manager capable of coordinating interworking between disparate networks. The transaction manager is preferably provided in a gateway connecting the disparate networks. The transaction manager may dynamically determine which tasks, messages, and interactions must be involved in the fulfillment of a transaction based on a variety of data-driven sources. The transaction manager is flexible and configurable rather than a rigid architecture requiring an application-specific configuration. With the present invention, the data driving the transaction manager may involve parameters from the incoming inquiry message, parameters in data from various sources associated with the contents of the incoming message, and parameters in the gateway's behavioral configuration data, as well as parameters received in response from activities involved directly in the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: John H. Yoakum, Barbara A. Ward, Paula Marie Holwell
  • Transaction management for interworking between disparate networks
    Publication number: 20020075881
    Abstract: The present invention enables a data-driven, dynamic transaction manager capable of coordinating interworking between disparate networks. The transaction manager is preferably provided in a gateway connecting the disparate networks. The transaction manager may dynamically determine which tasks, messages, and interactions must be involved in the fulfillment of a transaction based on a variety of data-driven sources. The transaction manager is flexible and configurable rather than a rigid architecture requiring an application-specific configuration. With the present invention, the data driving the transaction manager may involve parameters from the incoming inquiry message, parameters in data from various sources associated with the contents of the incoming message, and parameters in the gateway's behavioral configuration data, as well as parameters received in response from activities involved directly in the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: John H. Yoakum, Barbara A. Ward, Paula Marie Holwell