Patents by Inventor Robert V. Epley
Robert V. Epley 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: 8948752Abstract: Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer readable medium for operating an IMS to provide IMS services to originating sessions from a device upon which the user is not registered. The method includes receiving communication from a user on a device upon which the user is not registered at a 2-stage dialing server, authenticating the user, determining a Public User ID (PUID) for the user, receiving an identification of a called party from the user, arranging for IMS services to be provided to the user on the device, sending an INVITE signal from the 2-stage dialing server on behalf of the user PUID to the called party and setting up the media connection from the device to the device associated with the called party.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr., Leopold Strahs
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Patent number: 8767717Abstract: Disclosed is a device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP (TNIP) devices. The method includes receiving a message to register a Public User Identity (PUID) at a TNIP device at a network-based device, the TNIP device being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device accepting communications where to send sessions destined for a PUID and providing information where to send sessions, the routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers as immediate destinations and using information from the registration to route to the TNIP device, after providing IMS services, using the relationship between the PUID, the routing address and the IP address of the network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr., Leopold Strahs, Maria Adamczyk
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Publication number: 20130286944Abstract: Disclosed is a device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP (TNIP) devices. The method includes receiving a message to register a Public User Identity (PUID) at a TNIP device at a network-based device, the TNIP device being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device accepting communications where to send sessions destined for a PUID and providing information where to send sessions, the routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers as immediate destinations and using information from the registration to route to the TNIP device, after providing IMS services, using the relationship between the PUID, the routing address and the IP address of the network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Steven A. SIEGEL, Siroos K. AFSHAR, Walter Cooper CHASTAIN, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, JR., Leopold Strahs, Maria Adamczyk
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Patent number: 8472431Abstract: Disclosed is a device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP (TNIP) devices. The method includes receiving a message to register a Public User Identity (PUID) at a TNIP device at a network-based device, the TNIP device being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device accepting communications where to send sessions destined for a PUID and providing information where to send sessions, the routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers as immediate destinations, and using information from the registration to route to the TNIP device, after providing IMS services, using the relationship between the PUID, the routing address and the IP address of the network device with routing functionality based on telephone numbers.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, Jr., Leopold Strahs, Maria Adamczyk
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Publication number: 20090191871Abstract: Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer readable medium for operating an IMS to provide IMS services to originating sessions from a device upon which the user is not registered. The method includes receiving communication from a user on a device upon which the user is not registered at a 2-stage dialing server, authenticating the user, determining a Public User ID (PUID) for the user, receiving an identification of a called party from the user, arranging for IMS services to be provided to the user on the device, sending an INVITE signal from the 2-stage dialing server on behalf of the user PUID to the called party and setting up the media connection from the device to the device associated with the called party.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: AT&T LabsInventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, JR., Leopold Strahs
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Publication number: 20090190573Abstract: Disclosed is a network-based device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP devices. The method embodiment includes receiving a REGISTER message that initiates registration of a Public User Identity (PUID) at a terminating non-IP device at a network-based device in an IMS, wherein the terminating non-IP device is specified as being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device that accepts communications regarding where to send sessions destined for a specific PUID and provide information regarding where to send sessions, the E.164 routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device that includes routing functionality based on telephone numbers as an immediate destination for the session and using this information from the registration to route to the terminating non-IP device after providing IMS services by using the relationship between the PUID, the E.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: AT&TInventors: Steven A. SIEGEL, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, JR., Leopold Strahs, Maria Adamczyk
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Patent number: 7443855Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using partially non-geographic addresses. One example method includes: determining whether addressing information in a received message comprises a scoped code; examining, upon determination of a scoped code, a non-geographic portion of the addressing information; obtaining forwarding information corresponding to the non-geographic portion of the addressing information; and forward the message in accordance with the forward information.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: AT & T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Robert V. Epley
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Patent number: 6876658Abstract: A communications process and apparatus is provided with scoped, partially non-geographic addressing. The processes are carried out by one or more switches in a communications system. A first device in the system has a scoped address, including at least one geographic identifier and a customer identifier. A second device sends a setup message with addressing information to a switch in the system. The switch examines the message and consults a database with the customer identification to determine forwarding information. The switch forwards the message to a second device according to the forwarding information obtained from the database. The second device sends a connect message to the first device, thereby establishing a connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2000Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventor: Robert V. Epley
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Communications systems and method using partically non-geographic addressing method for forming same
Patent number: 6603764Abstract: A communications process and apparatus is provided with scoped, partially non-geographic addressing. The processes are carried out by one or more switches in a communications system. A first device in the system has a scoped address, including at least one geographic identifier and a customer identifier. A second device sends a setup message with addressing information to a switch in the system. The switch examines the message and consults a database with the customer identification to determine forwarding information. The switch forwards the message to a second device according to the forwarding information obtained from the database. The second device sends a connect message to the first device, thereby establishing a connection.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corp.Inventor: Robert V. Epley -
Publication number: 20010014094Abstract: A communications process and apparatus is provided with scoped, partially non-geographic addressing. The processes are carried out by one or more switches in a communications system. A first device in the system has a scoped address, including at least one geographic identifier and a customer identifier. A second device sends a setup message with addressing information to a switch in the system. The switch examines the message and consults a database with the customer identification to determine forwarding information. The switch forwards the message to a second device according to the forwarding information obtained from the database. The second device sends a connect message to the first device, thereby establishing a connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2000Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventor: Robert V. Epley
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Patent number: 5732131Abstract: A system and method for routing communications to a terminating station associated with a porting subscriber directory number when the porting subscriber line 14a is cut-over from a donor switch 12a to a donee switch 12b. Upon cut-over of the porting subscriber line 14a, a local number portability (LNP) activation telephone call is placed to a dial-in platform 50 that activates a previously provisioned but inactive LNP database entry for the porting subscriber directory number. The LNP database entry is located in an LNP database 42a at a service control point (SCP) 28a. The dial-in platform 50 also activates a previously provisioned but inactive directory-number-level trigger for the porting subscriber directory number at the donor switch 12a. Activating the directory-number-level trigger for the porting subscriber directory number at the donor switch 12a causes the donor switch 12a to hold a subsequently received telephone call directed to the porting subscriber directory number.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: BellSouth CorporationInventors: Prasad V. Nimmagadda, Robert V. Epley
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Patent number: 5251255Abstract: This invention relates to arrangements for controlling processing of telephone calls from feature processors. Feature processors are data bases, usually shared among a plurality of switching systems, and usually comprising data for customers served by these switching systems, for altering the processing of telephone calls from and to these customers in accordance with that data. In order to perform this modification, data messages are exchanged between the switching systems and the feature processor. In a departure from the prior art, these data messages include functional indicators, i.e., indicators of basic characteristics of a call, each of which may be associated with many features and which may influence the execution of other features, wherein the execution of at least some of the features of the two groups can be influenced by the feature processor. Advantageously, the use of functional indicators helps to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted between the switching systems and feature processor.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1991Date of Patent: October 5, 1993Assignee: AT&T Bell LaboratoriesInventor: Robert V. Epley