Patents by Inventor Eric Duane Culpepper

Eric Duane Culpepper 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).

  • Network service restoration-on-demand
    Patent number: 9887906
    Abstract: A method of establishing a first network connection of a wired network with a customer premise equipment (CPE) installed at a customer premise (CP). The method monitors the first network connection and detects an outage of the first network connection. The method provides an option of using a second network connection of a wireless network, for delivery of services during the first outage of the first network connection. The method receives a response, and switches the delivery of services, via a machine to machine (M2M) interface in the CPE, to the second network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Marcel Rijnders, Ashley Dickenson, Michelle L. Opitz, Eric Duane Culpepper, Anthony S. Tutwiler, Richard M. Cooper, Thomas Edward Sibrizzi, Christopher A. Kimm
  • NETWORK SERVICE RESTORATION-ON-DEMAND
    Publication number: 20160080248
    Abstract: A method of establishing a first network connection of a wired network with a customer premise equipment (CPE) installed at a customer premise (CP). The method monitors the first network connection and detects an outage of the first network connection. The method provides an option of using a second network connection of a wireless network, for delivery of services during the first outage of the first network connection. The method receives a response, and switches the delivery of services, via a machine to machine (M2M) interface in the CPE, to the second network connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Jan Marcel Rijnders, Ashley Dickenson, Michelle L. Opitz, Eric Duane Culpepper, Anthony S. Tutwiler, Richard M. Cooper, Thomas Edward Sibrizzi, Christopher A. Kimm