Patents by Inventor Christopher H. Lamb

Christopher H. Lamb 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for providing communications services between connectionless and connection-oriented networks
    Patent number: 7411939
    Abstract: A telecommunications system uses software applications called user agents, that are preferably Internet-based and that operate on behalf of users in a telecommunications hosting server to control call connections under control of a telecommunications network server that interfaces with the telecommunications hosting server as well as a connection-based public telephone network. The telecommunications hosting server operates on a computer network on behalf of the user agents to provide call signaling in support of many advanced calling and telecommunications services. The functionality and performance (e.g., execution) of the user agent(s) preferably takes place primarily within the telecommunications hosting server, though user client computers can provide some and possibly all of the user agent functionality, depending upon the particular implementation chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Christopher H. Lamb, Scott B. Petrack, Frank G. Slaughter, III, James E. Toga
  • Methods and apparatus for providing communications services between connectionless and connection-oriented networks
    Patent number: 6747970
    Abstract: A telecommunications system uses software applications called user agents, that are preferably Internet-based and that operate on behalf of users in a telecommunications hosting server to control call connections under control of a telecommunications network server that interfaces with the telecommunications hosting server as well as a connection-based public-telephone network. The telecommunications hosting server operates on a computer network on behalf of the user agents to provide call signaling in support of many advanced calling and telecommunications services. The functionality and, performance (e.g., execution) of the user agent(s) preferably takes place primarily within the telecommunications hosting server, though user client computers can provide some and possibly all of the user agent functionality, depending upon the particular implementation chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher H. Lamb, Scott B. Petrack, Frank G. Slaughter, III, James E. Toga