Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Deshong

Elizabeth Deshong 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).

  • Revenue assurance tool
    Patent number: 7720759
    Abstract: A system assures revenue reconciliation of customer billing and vendor settlements for multimedia services, including voice over IP, provided through a network. The system includes a data repository configured to store a plurality of tables, each table including data collected from a plurality of network elements in the network and relating to at least one of customer usage, mediation, customer billing and vendor settlement. The system also includes a processor configured to execute an alert rule based on data retrieved from at least one table stored in the data repository. The alert rule includes a comparison between the at least one table and at least one other table of the plurality of tables. The processor triggers an alert associated with the alert rule when a corresponding alert rule threshold is exceeded based on the comparison, and initiates reporting of the triggered alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jack Fine, Elizabeth Deshong, Marie Jennifer Lim, Ailene Kim, Euly LeGro, Senthil Kumar
  • REVENUE ASSURANCE TOOL
    Publication number: 20080301018
    Abstract: A system assures revenue reconciliation of customer billing and vendor settlements for multimedia services, including voice over IP, provided through a network. The system includes a data repository configured to store a plurality of tables, each table including data collected from a plurality of network elements in the network and relating to at least one of customer usage, mediation, customer billing and vendor settlement. The system also includes a processor configured to execute an alert rule based on data retrieved from at least one table stored in the data repository. The alert rule includes a comparison between the at least one table and at least one other table of the plurality of tables. The processor triggers an alert associated with the alert rule when a corresponding alert rule threshold is exceeded based on the comparison, and initiates reporting of the triggered alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: AT & T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
    Inventors: Jack FINE, Elizabeth DESHONG, Marie Jennifer LIM, Ailene KIM, Euly LEGRO, Senthil KUMAR