Patents by Inventor Chad Daniel Harper

Chad Daniel Harper 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: 6381306
    Abstract: A system and method for generating service quality statistics for a communications network is disclosed. Network monitors capture messages in a communications network, such as an SS7 network, and correlate related messages into records. The records are filtered using a call detail record profile to create call detail records which are provided to an statistics server. The statistics server generates certain statistics for the message records and stores the statistics to a database. A report application recalls the statistics from the database and presents statistics in a reporting format configured by the user. The reports indicate the statistical performance of network providers for selected called or calling telephone numbers or for selected services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Inet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Ray Lawson, Chad Daniel Harper, Grant Michael Brehm, Gaurang S. Kalyanpur
  • Patent number: 6359976
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring service quality using Call Detail Records (CDR) in a communications network, such as a Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) network, is disclosed. Network monitors capture substantially all signaling units in the SS7 network generate a complete record for all calls, transactions and other communications over the network. Users configure CDR profiles that are used to filter the records. A CDR application filters the records by parsing out signaling unit components that have been selected by the user in the CDR profile. The selected message components are then formatted into a CDR record, which is sent to an external system that generates certain statistics for the message records and stores the statistics to a database. A report application recalls the statistics from the database and presents statistics in a reporting format configured by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Inet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurang S. Kalyanpur, Chad Daniel Harper, Grant Michael Brehm, Chunchun Jonina Chan