Patents by Inventor Roy C. Shell

Roy C. Shell 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 and system for providing signaling gateway management
    Patent number: 8331348
    Abstract: An approach is provided for signaling gateway management. Data from a plurality of signaling gateways corresponding to a plurality of trunks of a telecommunications network is automatically retrieved, each signaling gateway being configured to convert circuit-switched signaling to packet-switched signaling. The data is stored. An operating state for each of the plurality of trunks is determined based on the data to perform trending analysis for the operation of one or more of the plurality of trunks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Russell, Roy C. Shell, Ian C. Scott, Kenny M. Hawkins, Bob E. Taylor
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SIGNALING GATEWAY MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20110103371
    Abstract: An approach is provided for signaling gateway management. Data from a plurality of signaling gateways corresponding to a plurality of trunks of a telecommunications network is automatically retrieved, each signaling gateway being configured to convert circuit-switched signaling to packet-switched signaling. The data is stored. An operating state for each of the plurality of trunks is determined based on the data to perform trending analysis for the operation of one or more of the plurality of trunks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: James N. Russell, Roy C. Shell, Ian C. Scott, Kenny M. Hawkins, Bob E. Taylor