Patents by Inventor Eric P. Hamel

Eric P. Hamel 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: 8644253
    Abstract: A methodology includes servicing a voice call between mobile User Equipment and an Enterprise Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Services Environment using, at least in part, Voice over Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (VoIMS), detecting that the User Equipment is moving out of range of Radio Access Point (RAP) infrastructure servicing the User Equipment, and in response to detecting, initiating a procedure to hand out the voice call and anchor the voice call in a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) of a macro service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Eric P. Hamel, Jonathan D. Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 8295837
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to allow more than a fixed number of radio access point devices to be deployed within a macro cell. At a controller apparatus, a registration request is received from a radio access point device configured to operate in a wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in the wireless network in respective relatively small coverage areas. The registration request comprises a macro cell identifier associated with a macro cell base station configured to operate in the wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in a relatively large coverage area, a radio access point cell identifier associated with the radio access point device, and a particular primary scrambling code selected for use by the radio access point device. When the particular primary scrambling code is not available for use, methods are provided to allocate it in a shared manner but without degrading handover service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Hamel, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 8233481
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing access class based picocell policy enforcement includes determining whether user equipment registered with a radio access point is known to an enterprise other than a macro telecommunications service provider and eligible for differentiated services, recovering an internet protocol (IP) address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment, confirming that the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment is within a predetermined range, determining whether the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment uniquely identifies an enterprise context, as opposed to a macro telecommunications service context, and when the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment uniquely identifies an enterprise context, causing IP packets received from the Internet to be routed to an enterprise controller that services the user equipment via the radio access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Eric P. Hamel
  • Publication number: 20120108287
    Abstract: Techniques are provided to allow more than a fixed number of radio access point devices to be deployed within a macro cell. At a controller apparatus, a registration request is received from a radio access point device configured to operate in a wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in the wireless network in respective relatively small coverage areas. The registration request comprises a macro cell identifier associated with a macro cell base station configured to operate in the wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in a relatively large coverage area, a radio access point cell identifier associated with the radio access point device, and a particular primary scrambling code selected for use by the radio access point device. When the particular primary scrambling code is not available for use, methods are provided to allocate it in a shared manner but without degrading handover service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric P. Hamel, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 8121598
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to allow more than a fixed number of radio access point devices to be deployed within a macro cell. At a controller apparatus, a registration request is received from a radio access point device configured to operate in a wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in the wireless network in respective relatively small coverage areas. The registration request comprises a macro cell identifier associated with a macro base station apparatus configured to operate in the wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in a relatively large coverage area, a radio access point cell identifier associated with the radio access point device, and a particular primary scrambling code selected for use by the radio access point device. When the particular primary scrambling code is not available for use, methods are provided to allocate it in a shared manner but without degrading handover service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric P. Hamel, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 7957314
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes requesting real-time transfer protocol (RTP) quality metrics to be generated by a network for a specific flow in the network. The method also includes recording the RTP quality metrics and reporting the metrics as accounting data associated with the flow. In more specific embodiments, the accounting data includes a correlator with application level accounting and the accounting data is used for quality monitoring and troubleshooting on a per-subscriber basis, on a per-flow basis, or on a per-call basis. An application function can request RTP quality monitoring with a trigger that identifies if a quality parameter reaches a certain threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Flemming S. Andreasen, John W. Evans, Eric P. Hamel
  • Publication number: 20110019638
    Abstract: Techniques are provided herein to allow more than a fixed number of radio access point devices to be deployed within a macro cell. At a controller apparatus, a registration request is received from a radio access point device configured to operate in a wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in the wireless network in respective relatively small coverage areas. The registration request comprises a macro cell identifier associated with a macro base station apparatus configured to operate in the wireless network to serve one or more wireless client devices in a relatively large coverage area, a radio access point cell identifier associated with the radio access point device, and a particular primary scrambling code selected for use by the radio access point device. When the particular primary scrambling code is not available for use, methods are provided to allocate it in a shared manner but without degrading handover service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric P. Hamel, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Mark Grayson
  • Publication number: 20110019612
    Abstract: A methodology includes servicing a voice call between mobile User Equipment and an Enterprise Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Services Environment using, at least in part, Voice over Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (VoIMS), detecting that the User Equipment is moving out of range of Radio Access Point (RAP) infrastructure servicing the User Equipment, and in response to detecting, initiating a procedure to hand out the voice call and anchor the voice call in a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) of a macro service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Eric P. Hamel, Jonathan D. Rosenberg
  • Publication number: 20110021196
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing access class based picocell policy enforcement includes determining whether user equipment registered with a radio access point is known to an enterprise other than a macro telecommunications service provider and eligible for differentiated services, recovering an internet protocol (IP) address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment, confirming that the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment is within a predetermined range, determining whether the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment uniquely identifies an enterprise context, as opposed to a macro telecommunications service context, and when the IP address associated with communication traffic from the user equipment uniquely identifies an enterprise context, causing IP packets received from the Internet to be routed to an enterprise controller that services the user equipment via the radio access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Grayson, Anton Okmyanskiy, Rajesh Pazhyannur, Eric P. Hamel
  • Publication number: 20100150003
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes requesting real-time transfer protocol (RTP) quality metrics to be generated by a network for a specific flow in the network. The method also includes recording the RTP quality metrics and reporting the metrics as accounting data associated with the flow. In more specific embodiments, the accounting data includes a correlator with application level accounting and the accounting data is used for quality monitoring and troubleshooting on a per-subscriber basis, on a per-flow basis, or on a per-call basis. An application function can request RTP quality monitoring with a trigger that identifies if a quality parameter reaches a certain threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Flemming S. Andreasen, John W. Evans, Eric P. Hamel