Patents by Inventor Christopher R. Normand

Christopher R. Normand 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 of providing digital data services including comparing predicted and measured levels of performance and related systems and computer program products
    Patent number: 8134930
    Abstract: A method of providing digital data services between a communications service provider and a customer site over a communications loop may include predicting a level of performance of the communications loop without coupling a modem to the communications loop at the customer site to provide a predicted level of performance of the communications loop. The communications loop may be qualified for an initial qualified level of digital data service based on the predicted level of performance of the communications loop. After qualifying the communications loop, digital data service may be provided over the communications loop at the initial qualified level using a modem coupled to the communications loop at the customer site, and a measured level of performance of the communications loop may be obtained based on data communicated between the communications service provider and the modem over the communications loop. The measured level of performance may then be compared with the predicted level of performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James M. Seymour, Oussama Samih Zbib, Kenneth Wayne Hartsfield, Christopher R. Normand, Ping Song, Joan Tidwell Waldron, Jeffrey Neumann, Steven C. Laufmann
  • Methods of Providing Digital Data Services Including Comparing Predicted and Measured Levels of Performance and Related Systems and Computer Program Products
    Publication number: 20090109865
    Abstract: A method of providing digital data services between a communications service provider and a customer site over a communications loop may include predicting a level of performance of the communications loop without coupling a modem to the communications loop at the customer site to provide a predicted level of performance of the communications loop. The communications loop may be qualified for an initial qualified level of digital data service based on the predicted level of performance of the communications loop. After qualifying the communications loop, digital data service may be provided over the communications loop at the initial qualified level using a modem coupled to the communications loop at the customer site, and a measured level of performance of the communications loop may be obtained based on data communicated between the communications service provider and the modem over the communications loop. The measured level of performance may then be compared with the predicted level of performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: James M. Seymour, Oussama Samith Zbib, Kenneth Wayne Hartsfield, Christopher R. Normand, Ping Song, Joan Tidwell Waldron, Jeffrey Neumann