Patents Assigned to AT&T Labs
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Publication number: 20070230474Abstract: A communication network element determines a service provider's routing preference for routing communications and routes these communications from an originating connection address to a destination connection address over a network. The communication network element includes a receiver configured to receive a signal, which comprises the originating connection address and the destination connection address. The communication network element also includes a processor that determines the service provider associated with at least one of the originating connection address and the destination connection address of the received signal. The processor also determines the routing preference associated with the service provider using routing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Laura CULLI, Bruce NANCE, John SIMINO, Harold FLEISCHER, Michael HANRAHAN, M. Lourdes CORONADO
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Patent number: 7274786Abstract: A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, John E. Simino, Kenneth Robert Stroud
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Publication number: 20070217584Abstract: A provisioning server implements a telephony service associated with a user, in which calls involving a directory number of the user are processed in accordance with the telephony service and customized call service data. The provisioning server interfaces a call processor with a web server and an interactive voice response (IVR) platform. The provisioning server includes a first interface for receiving the customized call service data from the web server, and a second interface for receiving at least portion of the customized call service data from the IVR platform. The provisioning server also includes a third interface for sending the customized call service data to be stored in a database accessible to the call processor. An instruction is received over the first interface or the second interface to activate the telephony service, in accordance with the customized call service data, via one of the web server and the IVR platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2007Publication date: September 20, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Xiaolian Yang BI, Susanne CROCKETT, Mary HARDZINSKI, Thomas MCBLAIN, John MOSS, Stephen MUELLER, Paul WILCZYNSKI
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Patent number: 7248562Abstract: An adaptive SVC caching method and system are provided to offload the high processing capacity burden of ATM switches. After an SVC is established in a usual way for a call, it is not torn down after the conversation ends. Instead, the SVC is kept alive for a variable duration (i.e., delayed release) with the expectation that there will be another call request for the same terminating end office during that time. The caching duration is adaptively changed with call arrival rate and call setup delay in the ATM network in order to stay within a delay budget specified by the requirements.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Yetik Serbest, Haifeng Bi, Samuel Sigarto
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Publication number: 20070167166Abstract: A method for location-based communications routing includes determining a location of a requesting party in accordance with an originating communications address of the requesting party. The method also includes determining whether the location of the requesting party is in a first subscriber service area and, when the location of the requesting party is not in the first subscriber service area, determining whether the location of the requesting party is in a second expanded subscriber service area larger than and including the first subscriber service area. When the location of the requesting party is determined to be in the first subscriber service area, a communication from the requesting party is forwarded to a routing communications address associated with the first subscriber service area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Harold Fleischer, Gwen Gaffney, Susan Eiffert, James Merlotti, Michael Boeckman, Brenda Thompson
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Patent number: 7242753Abstract: A telecommunications system determines a telecommunications service provider's routing preference for routing a call for a subscriber. The telecommunications system includes a storage that stores call routing data and a call routing service application for determining the routing preference using the call routing data. The call routing data includes an indicator that indicates when the subscriber subscribes to resold local switching services and when the subscriber subscribes to unbundled local switching services. The telecommunications system also includes a processor that executes the call routing service application, and that generates call routing instructions for routing the call according to the determined routing preference.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: AT & T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Laura Culli, Bruce A. Nance, John E. Simino, Harold C. Fleischer, III, Michael Hanrahan, M. Lourdes Coronado
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Patent number: 7242754Abstract: A system and method include implementing and accessing a subscriber's telecommunications services, using a graphical user interface (GUI) via the Internet, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system via the public switched telecommunications network (PSTN). The system and method enable a subscriber to review, schedule and modify call forwarding information stored and implemented by a service control point (SCP) through a common server from any dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) telephone and IVR system via the PSTN or any GUI and Web client via the Internet. The subscriber is able to build and edit call forwarding data, such as a scheduler and priority and rejection screening lists, by the GUI via the Internet for subsequent implementation.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Lee Adams, Xiaolian Yang Bi, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, Nancy Ann Book, Rodney T Brand, Susanne Marie Crockett, Laura Kay Culli, Mary Louise Hardzinski, Michael Albert Machacek, Thomas Joseph McBlain, John Wesley Moss, Stephen Mark Mueller, Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Richard Everett Sabinson, Paul Wilczynski, Elizabeth Goldwyn Gibson
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Publication number: 20070156661Abstract: A system for providing telecommunications equipment information and customer information that includes a display and a processor. The display displays a graphical user interface that allows a user to access the equipment information and the customer information. The graphical user interface includes at least one input area that allows a user to input search criteria, related to at least one of equipment data and customer data, to initiate a search. The graphical user interface also includes at least one results area that displays a result of the search, the result including at least one of the equipment information and the customer information related to the search criteria. The processor implements the search for at least one of the equipment information and the customer information in response to the input search criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: July 5, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Michael ALLEN, Craig BOSSE, Lisa BRICKHAUS, Ajay BUDHRAJA, Saul CARTER, Sherry CERUTTI, Brenda GIDEON, Terry JACKSON, Dmitri SAVINTSEV, Ronald STAGGS, Richard STOBAUGH, Cheryl WEISENBORN
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Publication number: 20070140452Abstract: Location-based communications routing includes determining whether a network apparatus which receives a communication, from a calling party attempting to contact a service corresponding to at least one predefined service area, provides service to at least one of the at least one predefined service area. When the network apparatus provides service to multiple of the predefined service areas, the location-based communications routing includes determining whether the calling party is in one of the at least one predefined service area. When the calling party is in one of the at least one predefined service area, the location-based communications routing includes determining which predefined service area the calling party is in. The communication is routed based upon determining whether the network apparatus provides service to at least one of the at least one predefined service area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Richard SABINSON, Gregory FOSBURGH, Mark TAMASI, Brenda THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20070127665Abstract: Outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber's terminal is provided by a system including a switch, which receives the call from the subscriber's terminal and launches a query in response to the call, and a service controller, which receives the query and forwards call data to an interface server in response to the query. The switch continues to process the telephone call after querying the service controller. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database based on at least the received call data. An outgoing call log database receives and stores the call data and the additional information from the interface server as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data from the outgoing call log database, in response to a query from a web client, and displays the outgoing call log data at the web client.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2007Publication date: June 7, 2007Applicants: AT&T LABS, INC., AT&T SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey BRANDT, Bojana MAMUZIC, James MILLER, Stephen MUELLER
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Patent number: 7227837Abstract: A system and method for reducing and surviving failures in a voice trunking over ATM (VTOA) environment includes an ATM network having a plurality of interconnected ATM switches. The VTOA system also includes a CS-IWF complex having a plurality of interconnected CS-IWF units, each unit having a plurality of processors. An end office building may also be provided for interaction with the VTOA system. The end office building includes multiple T-IWFs, and a switch that distributes calls among the T-IWFs in a load sharing manner. Each T-IWF has a plurality of processors and is part of the VTOA system. A switch management system is also provided in the VTOA system. In order to reduce and survive failures, the switch management system includes a plurality of switch management system units. At least one of the switch management system units is a backup unit for at least one primary switch management system unit. Each switch management system unit provides application redundancy within itself.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Haifeng Bi, George Coleman Allen, Jr., Randy Beamon, Weijing Chen, Janice Elaine Doerner, Mehran Esfandiari, Gary Jonathan Gibbons, Paul August Kaschube, Bruce Allen Nance, John Pinch, Tina Sigarto, Barbara Engel Smith, Matthew Wayne Stafford, George Anthony Young
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Publication number: 20070121643Abstract: A network node sets up a virtual connection in a network based on a virtual connection request initiated from an access port different from a first location previously associated with an account of a user. The network node includes a receiver for receiving a signaling message from the access port requesting the virtual connection. The signaling message has at least one field modified to include an address of the access port. The network node further includes a profile database and a registration server. The profile database stores a service policy associated with the user account. The registration server stores an address of the first location associated with the user account as a default registration, determines whether the user is authorized to establish the virtual connection based on the service policy, and replaces the first location address with the access port address when the user is authorized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2007Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: AT&T LABS, INC.Inventors: Philip Cunetto, James Doherty, Chien-Chun Lu, Timothy Schroeder
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Patent number: 7218719Abstract: A method, system and computer readable medium are provided for defining a service area served by a service location of a telecommunications network customer. The method includes ascertaining a geographic designator of a geographic area. The geographic area includes a plurality of geographic sub-areas that each correspond to a geographic sub-designator. The method also includes determining whether any two of the plurality of geographic sub-areas are not served by the same service location. When any two of the plurality of geographic sub-areas are not served by the same service location, the service area is defined by only the sub-designators corresponding to the geographic sub-areas served by the service location. When each of the plurality of geographic sub-areas are served by the same service location, the service area is defined by the geographic designator.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, Gwen H. Gaffney, Susan D. Eiffert, James C. Merlotti, Michael W. Boeckman, Brenda S. Thompson
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Patent number: 7216153Abstract: A system for providing telecommunications equipment information and customer information that includes a display and a processor. The display displays a graphical user interface that allows a user to access the equipment information and the customer information. The graphical user interface includes at least one input area that allows a user to input search criteria, related to at least one of equipment data and customer data, to initiate a search. The graphical user interface also includes at least one results area that displays a result of the search, the result including at least one of the equipment information and the customer information related to the search criteria. The processor implements the search for at least one of the equipment information and the customer information in response to the input search criteria.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael L. Allen, Craig E. Bosse, Lisa A. Brickhaus, Ajay Budhraja, Saul E. Carter, Sherry Cerutti, Brenda Gideon, Terry J. Jackson, Dmitri Savintsev, Ronald D. Staggs, Richard B. Stobaugh, Cheryl Weisenborn
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Patent number: 7203302Abstract: At least one call is routed based on a location of a calling party. A calling party calls a service corresponding to at least one predefined service area, and it is ascertained whether the calling party is within the at least one predefined service area. When the calling party is within the at least one predefined service area, it is determined which at least one predefined service area the calling party is in, and the routing for the call is determined based upon determining which at least one predefined service area the calling party is in. A route for the call to a destination for the service that corresponds to the determined predefined service area is identified based upon determining that the calling party is within the determined predefined service area.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Richard E. Sabinson, Gregory Steven Fosburgh, Mark Tamasi, Brenda S. Thompson
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Patent number: 7187760Abstract: Outgoing call log data associated with a call from a subscriber's terminal is provided by a system including a switch, which receives the call from the subscriber's terminal and launches a query in response to the call, and a service controller, which receives the query and forwards call data to an interface server in response to the query. The switch continues to process the telephone call after querying the service controller. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database based on at least the received call data. An outgoing call log database receives and stores the call data and the additional information from the interface server as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data from the outgoing call log database, in response to a query from a web client, and displays the outgoing call log data at the web client.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignees: AT&T Labs, Inc., AT&T Services, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Bojana Mamuzic, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller
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Patent number: 7187678Abstract: A method and system for associating a switched virtual circuit (SVC) connection request from an access port in an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network to a subscriber and optionally registering an address of the access port in relation to the subscriber. The method and system include receiving a signaling protocol message requesting the SVC connection from the access port, determining whether the signaling protocol message contains subscriber authentication data and, when authenticated, establishing the SVC connection. Furthermore, the SVC connection may be established only if service policies corresponding to the subscriber retrieved from a database indicate that the subscriber is entitled to make SVC connections. The method and system further include registering an address of the access port in the ATM network by substituting the address of the access port for an original subscriber address.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.Inventors: Philip Cunetto, James M. Doherty, Chien-Chun Lu, Timothy Paul Schroeder
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Patent number: 7172721Abstract: The invention provides a novel thermoplastic molding process useful in the manufacture of hollow, deformable thermoplastic articles such as hollow doll heads. In the process of the instant invention, a parison is formed at a first injection station and is transferred to a blow mold station. At the blow mold station, the parison is transformed into a hollow, deformable thermoplastic article through application of a vacuum and gas injection. Articles made by the process of the instant invention have a highly realistic appearance and texture.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: J.T. Labs, Ltd.Inventor: Tit Shing Wong
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Patent number: 6916032Abstract: The invention provides a propulsion, braking and anti-rollback control assembly for use in manually propelled vehicles such as wheelchairs. In one embodiment, the invention provides a wheelchair with a control lever assembly and related force conveyance connecter that propel, brake and steer the wheelchair in a mechanically advantageous way while minimizing rollback. A seat-activated auxiliary braking system is also provided. Additionally, the invention provides a selective anti-rollback disengagement system that facilitates selective rollback.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: J.T. Labs, Ltd.Inventor: Sui-Kay Wong
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Patent number: 6848965Abstract: The instant invention relates to an animation actuator and devices employing such an animation actuator. Actuators and devices of the invention are useful in animated entertainment devices. In one embodiment of the instant invention, the actuators are used in connection with an animated greeting card.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: J.T. Labs, Ltd.Inventor: Sui-Kay Wong