Patents by Inventor Andre R. Brandt

Andre R. Brandt 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).

  • Customer interface system for managing communications services including toll free services
    Patent number: 7447736
    Abstract: A network management system allows a customer of a communications service provider to manage communications services using a web server that communicates with a client web browser. The customer is able to view information associated with various communications systems and services via the client web browser. The customer is also able to submit requests for changes in service to the web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: MCI Communications Corporation, Verizion Business Global LLC
    Inventors: Carol Y. Devine, Richard W. Shoulberg, Gerald A. Shifrin, Robert A. Pfister, Douglas B. Fenley, Charles A. Suscheck, P. Alex Delano, W. Russell Kennington, Andre R. Brandt, Sajan J. Pillai, Edward Schwarz, Arieh Shamash
  • Integrated customer interface system for communications network management
    Patent number: 6763376
    Abstract: A network management system allows a customer to manage communications services using a web server that communicates with a client web browser. The client is able to view information associated with various communications systems and services via the client web browser. The client is also able to submit requests for changes in service to the web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: MCI Communications Corporation
    Inventors: Carol Y. Devine, Richard W. Shoulberg, Gerald A. Shifrin, Robert A. Pfister, Douglas B. Fenley, Charles A. Suscheck, P. Alex Delano, W. Russell Kennington, Andre R. Brandt, Sajan J. Pillai, Edward Schwarz, Arich Shamash
  • Data warehousing infrastructure for web based reporting tool
    Patent number: 6714979
    Abstract: A data warehousing infrastructure for telecommunications priced call detail data is integrated with a Web/Internet based reporting system providing a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling and viewing of various types of priced call detail data reports. Such an infrastructure performs an extraction process to obtain only those billing detail records of entitled customers, and a harvesting process for transforming the billing records into a star schema format for storage in one or more operational data storage devices. The system is integrated with a database server supporting expedient and accurate access to the customer's telecommunications priced call detail data for priced call detail data report generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Andre R. Brandt, Barbara Frueh, Sajan J. Pillai, Karl Rehder, Donald J. Shearer
  • Integrated proxy interface for web based data management reports
    Patent number: 6377993
    Abstract: An Intranet/Internet/Web-based data management tool that provides a common GUI enabling the requesting, customizing, scheduling and viewing of various types of priced call detail data reports pertaining to a customer's usage of telecommunications services. The Web-based reporting system tool comprises a novel Web-based, client-server application integrated with an operational data management/storage infrastructure that enables customers to access their own relevant data information timely, rapidly and accurately through the GUI client interface. The data management system infrastructure is designed to enable the secure initiation, acquisition, and presentation of telecommunications priced call detail data reports to customer workstations implementing a web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: MCI WorldCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Andre R. Brandt, Sajan J. Pillai