Patents by Inventor Del Stevens

Del Stevens 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: 7304984
    Abstract: A service creation switch (114) supports both tightly coupled and loosely distributed application server (AS) (126) functions, with the tightly coupled AS (126) functions residing in the switch (114), and the loosely coupled AS (126) functions carried out in a service level executable environment (SLEE) (34). The SLEE (134) utilizes DLLs to facilitate the distribution of services over a packet network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Convergent Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: David Butler, R. David Freedman, Del Stevens
  • Publication number: 20030012183
    Abstract: A service creation switch (114) supports both tightly coupled and loosely distributed application server (AS) (126) functions, with the tightly coupled AS (126) functions residing in the switch (114), and the loosely coupled AS (126) functions carried out in a service level executable environment (SLEE) (34). The SLEE (134) utilizes DLLs to facilitate the distribution of services over a packet network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: David Butler, R. David Freedman, Del Stevens