Patents by Inventor Deborah Jeanne Hill

Deborah Jeanne Hill 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: 8095120
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for creating an ad-hoc conference station from speakers on a plurality of mobile communication devices. The ad-hoc conference station can cancel the echo of any incoming audio for all of the communication devices. This feature may be achieved by employing a master/slave configuration for the communication devices within a common area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Blair, Andrew W. Lang, Paul Roller Michaelis, Deborah Jeanne Hill, Kevin Chan, Christopher R. Gentle, Neil Hepworth
  • Patent number: 7945898
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to automatically analyzing software systems for identifying faults or bugs and/or detection of malicious code. In various embodiments, the present invention measures code coverage for high priority invocable program elements, uses a relaxed coverage estimation technique that, instead of guaranteeing which code units will be executed, guarantees that at least a certain number of code units will be executed, determines and solves constraints in code to identify infeasible paths containing one or more selected nodes, determines, for a composite data type, a range of values for each of at least two non-composite data fields, and/or translates, prior to code analysis complex code into simpler code having fewer operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis C. Episkopos, Deborah Jeanne Hill, J. Jenny Li, Howell S. Yee, David M. Weiss
  • Patent number: 7936867
    Abstract: A contact center that includes: (a) an input 200 operable to receive a contact; (b) a task expert module 232 to (i) identify a plurality of tasks 400 associated with the contact; (ii) group the tasks 400 into first and second task sets; and (iii) queue the first and second task sets at different positions in at least one queue 208; and (c) an agent and work item selector 220 to assign the first task set to a first agent for servicing while maintaining the second task set in the at least one queue 208.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah Jeanne Hill, Sarah Hildebrandt Kiefhaber, Joylee E. Kohler, Henry R. Paddock, Katherine A. Sobus, Rodney A. Thomson