Patents by Inventor Anna Marie MAY

Anna Marie MAY 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).

  • System and method of providing local number portability
    Patent number: 8908852
    Abstract: A system for and method of providing local number portability is presented. A request may be received to establish a session between an origination user agent and a destination user agent. The request may comprise a destination user agent identifier. It may be determined whether the destination user agent identifier was ported from one service provider to another. If so, routing information may be provided for establishing the session through the second service provider rather than through the first service provider. The session may be established over one or more Internet protocol networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Marie May, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Harry C. Leung
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING LOCAL NUMBER PORTABILITY
    Publication number: 20110019811
    Abstract: A system for and method of providing local number portability is presented. A request may be received to establish a session between an origination user agent and a destination user agent. The request may comprise a destination user agent identifier. It may be determined whether the destination user agent identifier was ported from one service provider to another. If so, routing information may be provided for establishing the session through the second service provider rather than through the first service provider. The session may be established over one or more Internet protocol networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicants: Verizon Business Network Services Inc., Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc., Verizon Patent and Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Anna Marie MAY, Ralph S. Hoefelmeyer, Harry C. Leung