Patents by Inventor Susan Patricia Ackerman
Susan Patricia Ackerman 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: 8825874Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a Policy Charging and Control Node (PCRN) for updating a session associated with a subscriber in response to an event. The method may include receiving at the PCRN an event message indicating that an event has occurred within the session; retrieving subscriber information including at least one incremental value associated with the event for the subscriber; determining an updated value based on the at least one retrieved incremental value and at least one reference value; and responding to the event message with an update message including the updated value. Various exemplary embodiments may further include configuring a subscriber profile repository to include at least one incremental value and terminating the session if the subscriber is not allowed to use incremental updates or no incremental value is defined for the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Ajay Kirit Pandya, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Katha Kulasingam, Michael Tofinetti
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Patent number: 8750170Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) from a requesting entity, a message including a request associated with at least one service data flow (SDF); extracting a subscriber identifier and a first identifier from the message; retrieving a subscription record associated with the subscriber identifier, wherein the subscription record is associated with a first plurality of subrecords; identifying an first subrecord from the plurality of subrecords based on the first identifier; and conditionally fulfilling the request based on a first value stored in the first subrecord.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Kevin Scott Cutler, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Steve Rock, Felix Katz, Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Fernando Cuervo
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Patent number: 8675663Abstract: The invention is directed to providing a method and apparatus for authorizing Quality of Service (QoS) at a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) node in response to receiving a service request for a subscriber having a requested QoS, a QoS Negotiation Attribute Value Pair (AVP) and a QoS Upgrade AVP such that the QoS Negotiation AVP takes precedence over the QoS Upgrade AVP.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Haiqing Ma, Xiong Xue, David Huynh, Fernando Cuervo, Susan Patricia Ackerman
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Publication number: 20130215793Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) from a requesting entity, a message including a request associated with at least one service data flow (SDF); extracting a subscriber identifier and a first identifier from the message; retrieving a subscription record associated with the subscriber identifier, wherein the subscription record is associated with a first plurality of subrecords; identifying an first subrecord from the plurality of subrecords based on the first identifier; and conditionally fulfilling the request based on a first value stored in the first subrecord.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Alcatel-LucentInventors: Kevin Scott Cutler, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Steve Rock, Felix Katz, Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Fernando Cuervo
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Patent number: 8400916Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the policy and charging rules node from a requesting entity, a message including a request associated with at least one service data flow (SDF), wherein the request includes at least one requested bandwidth; extracting at least one subscriber identifier from the message; retrieving a subscription record associated with the at least one subscriber identifier; determining whether the request should be fulfilled by performing at least one comparison of the at least one requested bandwidth for the SDF against at least one field of the subscription record; if the request should be fulfilled, establishing the SDF; and if the request should not be fulfilled: generating a response message that indicates that the request was rejected, and transmitting the response message to the requesting entity.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Kevin Scott Cutler, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Steve Rock, Felix Katz, Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Fernando Cuervo
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Publication number: 20120002540Abstract: The invention is directed to providing a method and apparatus for authorizing Quality of Service (QoS) at a Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) node in response to receiving a service request for a subscriber having a requested QoS, a QoS Negotiation Attribute Value Pair (AVP) and a QoS Upgrade AVP such that the QoS Negotiation AVP takes precedence over the QoS Upgrade AVP.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Haiqing Ma, Xiong Xue, David Huynh, Fernando Cuervo, Susan Patricia Ackerman
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Publication number: 20110320620Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the policy and charging rules node from a requesting entity, a message including a request associated with at least one service data flow (SDF), wherein the request includes at least one requested bandwidth; extracting at least one subscriber identifier from the message; retrieving a subscription record associated with the at least one subscriber identifier; determining whether the request should be fulfilled by performing at least one comparison of the at least one requested bandwidth for the SDF against at least one field of the subscription record; if the request should be fulfilled, establishing the SDF; and if the request should not be fulfilled: generating a response message that indicates that the request was rejected, and transmitting the response message to the requesting entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent Canada, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Scott Cutler, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Steve Rock, Felix Katz, Kalyan Premchand Siddam, Fernando Cuervo
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Publication number: 20110307790Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a Policy Charging and Control Node (PCRN) for updating a session associated with a subscriber in response to an event. The method may include receiving at the PCRN an event message indicating that an event has occurred within the session; retrieving subscriber information including at least one incremental value associated with the event for the subscriber; determining an updated value based on the at least one retrieved incremental value and at least one reference value; and responding to the event message with an update message including the updated value. Various exemplary embodiments may further include configuring a subscriber profile repository to include at least one incremental value and terminating the session if the subscriber is not allowed to use incremental updates or no incremental value is defined for the subscriber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Alcatel-Lucent Canada, Inc.Inventors: Ajay Kirit Pandya, Susan Patricia Ackerman, Katha Kulasingam, Michael Tofinetti