Patents Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property
  • Method of detecting misrouted inter-office transport facility routes in a telecommunications system
    Patent number: 7577245
    Abstract: A method of detecting misrouted inter-office transport facility routes in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of provisioning orders corresponding to a plurality of newly requested inter-office facility routes to be added to the telecommunications system, and comparing the plurality of newly requested inter-office facility routes to a plurality of preferred routes that have been stored in a preferred routes database to identify a first set of routes that match the preferred routes, a second set of misrouted routes where a preferred route has been defined and previously stored, but where the newly requested route does not match the preferred route, and a third set of unmatched routes where a preferred route has not been previously stored in the preferred routes database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Frederick Michael Armanino, Tomoko O. Convis, Raghvendra G. Savoor, James Edward Hoffmann, Jerold Daizo Osato, David Berendsen, Richard E. Hawthorne, Randal D. Biederstedt, David W. Curry
  • System and method for monitoring congestion paging
    Patent number: 7576634
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring a paging signal from a mobile switch to a cellular transmitter for occurrences of congestion. The system includes a switch; a cell site in communication with the switch, for broadcasting a page received from the switch to a cellular device configured to receive the page; and a monitoring module in communication with the switch for monitoring occurrences of paging congestion between the switch and the cell site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Beeler, Kevin King
  • OmniTester
    Patent number: 7577238
    Abstract: A simplified field testing tool integrates signal-strength and error-rate testing for a variety of networking technologies prevalent for home networking, including but not limited to Multimedia over Coax (or applicable coax standard), HomePNA 2, VDSL, 100BaseT Ethernet, 802.11 Wi-Fi, and analog/coaxial RF signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Benjamin Small, Steven M. Wollmershauser, Yolius Diroo, Jorey M. Pascasio, Jr., Keith Joseph Allen
  • Interlocking cords
    Patent number: 7574778
    Abstract: Compositions and methods keep cords, such as electrical connectors for computers and home entertainment systems, tidy and organized with clasp members that run at least partly along the exterior cord surface. Cords may be optionally coupled to other cords in a concatenated arrangement, for example, and cords may be coupled to one or more objects such as a desk or a cabinet. A cord coupled to another cord or to an object may be optionally decoupled from the other cord or from the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Nikhil Marathe
  • System and method of transitioning between cellular and voice over internet protocol communication
    Patent number: 7577427
    Abstract: A multi-mode cellular and voice over internet protocol mobile device and a supporting network is disclosed. The mobile device includes a housing, an antenna, a wide area cellular communications module to provide wide area cellular communications, and a short-range wireless local area network module to provide a wireless communications interface to a wireless local area network having voice over internet protocol capability. In a particular embodiment, an internet protocol address managed by a wireless LAN base station is forwarded to and stored by the mobile phone device. In another embodiment, a method of forwarding a call from a mobile phone to a wireless LAN base station is disclosed. In another illustrative embodiment, a method of communicating from a wireless LAN base station to a mobile phone is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dennis D. Bicker, Charles R. Dilley
  • Method and apparatus using digital credentials and other electronic certificates for electronic transactions
    Patent number: 7577609
    Abstract: A method for performing electronic transactions, comprising receiving a long-term certificate, authenticating a user associated with the long-term certificate, and then sending a short-term certificate to the authenticated user. In addition, risk associated with the user can be evaluated, and this risk information, as well as other information, can be included in the short-term certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: David P. Maher
  • System and method for second order multi-layer traffic grooming for optical network optimization
    Patent number: 7577360
    Abstract: A method of automatically generating a computer based layout of an optical communication network is provided. First, communications traffic demand forecast data for an optical communication network is received. Network data corresponding to a deployed optical communication network is also received. Thereafter, a network plan can be automatically generated. The network plan corresponds to a modified network that may be deployed. Also, the network plan can be derived from the network data. Further, the network plan can be constructed in response to the performance of a grooming operation that includes a first level of grooming at an optical level of the modified network and a second level of grooming at an electrical level of the modified network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Zolfaghari, Andre Fuetsch, Christine Bouamalay, Miguel Tomas Molina
  • G.P.S. management system
    Patent number: 7577525
    Abstract: A management system using Global Positioning System receivers for tracking remote units from a central office and quickly and conveniently determining if those remote units have varied from a set of predetermined parameters of operation. The system also includes provisions that allows information to be sent from the remote units to the central office and vice versa. The system also has safety features that promote the rapid dispatch of law enforcement personnel when requests for emergency assistance have been made from the remote units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Marvin R. Hamrick, R. T. Mitchell Ingman
  • Method for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content
    Patent number: 7577639
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing rhetorical content. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a content management system (400) having a database (404), and a controller (402) for managing the database. The controller can be programmed to retrieve (702) at least one of a first plurality of records, each including content, retrieve (706) rhetorical libraries, identify (714) patterns between the rhetorical libraries and the content of each record, and deconstruct (718) the content into one or more rhetorical topics according to the patterns identified. Additional embodiments are disclosed for analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and repurposing content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nabha V. Rege, John Neil Cobb, Yeow Loong Lee, Lee Alan Cobb, Kristen Jane Sebastian
  • Method, system, and article for determining an availability of a telecommunication device
    Patent number: 7577243
    Abstract: A data structure, which identifies a party of a telecommunication network and a telecommunication feature unavailable to the party, is stored in a database. After storing the data structure, availability data is inputted. The availability data indicates an availability of the telecommunication feature to a portion of the telecommunication network which serves the party. The data structure and the availability data are processed to determine that the telecommunication feature has become available to the party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property 1, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr., Edmond W. Israelski, Jordan Howard Light, Denise Violetta Kagan, Jose M. Cruz, Bruce Edward Stuckman, Raymond Walden Bennett, III, Michael Steven Pickard, Barry James Sullivan, Richard Peter Krupka, Philip Martin Stebbings
  • System and method for SONET transport optimization (S-TOP)
    Patent number: 7577359
    Abstract: A method for designing a communication network is provided. First, network demand data is gathered. Network architecture data is also gathered. Based in part on the network demand data and the network architecture data, a network plan is automatically generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Ali Zolfaghari
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING DSL PERFORMANCE
    Publication number: 20090201976
    Abstract: A system and method is described for determining a condition of a communication line, such as the absence of a filter device on a digital subscriber line (DSL). A first signal characterized by a high upstream power is activated over the line, and a first set of parameters associated with the communication line is obtained. A second signal characterized by a low upstream power is activated, and a second set of parameters associated with the communication line is obtained. Comparison of first and second sets of parameters is indicative of a condition of the connection and presences or absence of a DSL filter on the communication line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kapil Shrikhande, Ganesh Krishnamurthi, Raghvendra G. Savoor
  • AUDIO ALERT SYTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20090201167
    Abstract: An audio alert system, device, and method includes an audio alert created by a user and programmed into a device, such as a wireless telephone. A user stores in the device a data structure relating an audio alert triggering event to the audio alert. When the device detects an occurrence of the particular audio alert triggering event, the device emits the audio alert related to the triggering event. As such, users are able to customize audio alerts that are easily recognizable and that are associated with a particular event, or signal. Audio alerts can be programmed using different devices and in various formats and can be transmitted to other devices. An audio alert triggering event can modulate an audio alert according to an external variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: AT & T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Steven N. Tischer
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATION
    Publication number: 20090204680
    Abstract: Email subscribers are notified of the receipt of new email messages when they are not at their computers via voice or page. An email notification server polls the email server corresponding to the subscriber's email account for the presence of new email messages. New email messages are obtained. Header information is extracted. If new email notification is by voicemail, the extracted header information is converted from text to voice. A voicemail message containing the extracted header information is saved on the voicemail system corresponding to the subscriber for whom the email message was intended. The email notification server can also send a page to notify the subscriber of the presence of new email.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Mark Kirkpatrick
  • Seamless wireless mobility
    Patent number: 7574207
    Abstract: Seamless wireless mobility is described. In one embodiment, a mobility manager can query a subscriber catalog for a current registration status of a handset. The mobility manager can then use the registration status to send a first signal to the handset over either a wireless network or an Internet protocol-based network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas O'Neil, John Alson Hicks, III
  • Method for automated sentence planning in a task classification system
    Patent number: 7574362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sentence planning (120) in a task classification system that interacts with a user. The method may include recognizing symbols in the user's input communication and determining whether the user's input communication can be understood. If the user's communication can be understood, understanding data may be generated (220). The method may further include generating communicative goals (3010) based on the recognized symbols and understanding data. The generated communicative goals (3010) may be related to information needed to be obtained form the user. The method may also include automatically planning one or more sentences (3020) based on the generated communicative goals and outputting at least one of the sentence plans to the user (3080).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Marilyn A. Walker, Owen Christopher Rambow, Monica Rogati
  • Methods, apparatus and computer program products for testing a voice over Internet protocol communication system
    Patent number: 7573825
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for testing a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication system. A VoIP test phone call is generated through an Internet communication link to a VoIP service provider for a called telephone number. Success of the VoIP test phone call is determined. The success of the VoIP test phone call may be determined based on whether it is established with communication equipment at the called telephone number within a threshold time, based on whether it is established within a threshold number of attempts, and/or based on a measured quality of service in the VoIP test phone call when it is established. Further VoIP test phone calls to test the VoIP communication system can be scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventor: Frederick Iffland
  • Methods, computer program products, and systems for managing quality of service in a communication network for applications
    Patent number: 7573906
    Abstract: Quality of Service (QoS) in a communication network is managed. A service provider requests a level of QoS for communication in the communication network using a QoS request. The requested level of QoS may be allocated to the service provider based on the QoS request. The service provider may make the QoS request on its own initiative and/or in response to a request from an application that is hosted by the service provider. A QoS level may then be allocated to the service provider and/or to particular applications that are hosted by the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Maria Adamczyk, Thomas Arnold Anschutz, Edgar Vaughan Shrum, Jr., Steven Allan Wright, Li Zhang
  • System and method for spelling recognition using speech and non-speech input
    Patent number: 7574356
    Abstract: A system and method for non-speech input or keypad-aided word and spelling recognition is disclosed. The method comprises performing spelling recognition via automatic speech recognition (ASR) on received speech from a user, the ASR being performed using a statistical letter model trained on domain data and producing a letter lattice RLN. If an ASR confidence is below a predetermined level, then the method comprises receiving non-speech input from the user, generating a keypad constraint grammar K and generating a letter string based on a composition of finite state transducers RLN and K. Other variations of the invention include recognizing input by first receiving non-speech input, dynamically generating an unweighted grammar, generating a weighted grammar using domain data, and then performing speech, and thus spelling, recognition on input speech using the weighted grammar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventor: Sarangarajan Parthasarathy
  • System and method for providing interoperability between different programming protocols
    Patent number: 7574714
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing interoperability of systems are provided. One embodiment may be seen as instantiating a server in a container having instances of Enterprise Java™ Beans (EJB), and accessing the EJB through the local interface of the EJB. Since the EJB is accessed from within the container, the need for translation of messaging protocols at a bridge is removed. The server components are provided access to the EJB logic through the local interface of the EJB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Larry A. Black, Ronald O. Pierce