Patents by Inventor William P. Bryan

William P. Bryan 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: 11275674
    Abstract: A method of testing an operations support system (OSS). The method comprises receiving an input by a test tool executing on a computer system from a user interface of the test tool selecting an OSS application to test, querying the data store by the test tool for test system configuration information associated with the selected OSS application, automatically generating test case OSS input data by the test tool, testing a plurality of different user interface screens of the OSS by the test tool based on the test system configuration information associated with the selected OSS application and based on the automatically generated test case OSS input data, capturing screen shots of test results presented in the user interface screens of the OSS by the test tool, and storing the screen shots of test results in a test results data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: William P. Bryan, Thomas E. Feehan, Erika Petzold, Bruce Ziegler
  • Patent number: 10749869
    Abstract: A system for changing roaming policy configuration on an authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) system. The system comprises a processor, a non-transitory memory, and an AAA policy change application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the AAA policy change application launches execution of a plurality of instances of the automation script, monitors a progress of the instances of the automation script, compares the progress of the instances of the automation script to a time remaining of a predefined maintenance time window, where the AAA policy change application is configured to halt an in-progress update of roaming policy configuration on the plurality of AAA nodes based on the comparison of the progress of the instances of the automation script being insufficient relative to the time remaining of the predefined maintenance time window, and copies roaming policy files updated by the automation script to AAA nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: William P. Bryan, Nathan D. Canady, Maria G. Giron, Anthony E. Johnson, Phillip R. King, Erika J. Petzold, Aaron M. Phillips, Bruce E. Ziegler
  • Patent number: D366268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Utilco, Inc.
    Inventor: William P. Bryan, III