Patents by Inventor Eric Soutar

Eric Soutar 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).

  • Publication number: 20230198860
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for the temporal monitoring and visualization of the health of a direct interconnect network wherein discovered and configured nodes provide node telemetry data from each node or every port on each node at time interval, and the node telemetry data is stored in a temporal datastore at each time interval with a timestamp for a retention period, such that the temporal datastore contains a temporal history of node telemetry data from each node or every port on each node during the retention period. The node telemetry data is analyzed, alarms are raised as necessary, a health status commensurate with the severity of the node telemetry data is assigned and stored for each node or every port on each node, and a health score is calculated for such nodes and ports based on the assigned health status for use by a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ian BOTHWELL, Huiwen HONG, Creighton KIRKENDALL, Eric LANDRY, Frederic POULIN, Eric SOUTAR, James THIBAUDEAU
  • Patent number: 10003492
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing data related to network elements in a telecommunications network. In an embodiment, a document containing data related to one or more of the network elements is received. The document is associated with a corresponding source provider, a location, a receipt timestamp indicating the time and date that the data was received, and a creation timestamp indicating the time and date that the data was created. A document class is then detected for the received document, and an intermediate representation of the document is generated that includes a plurality of key-value pairs. The intermediate representation is parsed to identify relevant values that correlate to a network model that includes a plurality of network entities representing types of network elements in the telecommunications network. Finally, the identified values are normalized according to the network model and written to a networking database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: CENX, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Brown, Philippe Rene, Eric Soutar, Peyo Tzolov, Achint Sandhu
  • Patent number: 9992082
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program embodiments are disclosed for providing graphical visualization of a telecommunications network topology. In an embodiment, raw graph data may be received that that represents one or more communications paths in the telecommunications network. The raw graph data may contain a plurality of network nodes and connections between the nodes, and each node may be associated with an entity type. A graph classification may then be determined based on the received raw graph data, and the classification may be associated with a plurality of graph rendering rules. The raw graph data may be converted to rendered graph data by determining graphical positions for each of the plurality of network nodes according to the plurality of rendering rules. In an embodiment, the rendered graph data may include the plurality of network nodes, the determined position and associated entity type of each node, and connections between nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CENX, INC.
    Inventors: Cameron MacNeil, Eric Soutar
  • Publication number: 20170163502
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program embodiments are disclosed for providing graphical visualization of a telecommunications network topology. In an embodiment, raw graph data may be received that that represents one or more communications paths in the telecommunications network. The raw graph data may contain a plurality of network nodes and connections between the nodes, and each node may be associated with an entity type. A graph classification may then be determined based on the received raw graph data, and the classification may be associated with a plurality of graph rendering rules. The raw graph data may be converted to rendered graph data by determining graphical positions for each of the plurality of network nodes according to the plurality of rendering rules. In an embodiment, the rendered graph data may include the plurality of network nodes, the determined position and associated entity type of each node, and connections between nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Cameron MACNEIL, Eric Soutar
  • Publication number: 20160246783
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing data related to network elements in a telecommunications network. In an embodiment, a document containing data related to one or more of the network elements is received. The document is associated with a corresponding source provider, a location, a receipt timestamp indicating the time and date that the data was received, and a creation timestamp indicating the time and date that the data was created. A document class is then detected for the received document, and an intermediate representation of the document is generated that includes a plurality of key-value pairs. The intermediate representation is parsed to identify relevant values that correlate to a network model that includes a plurality of network entities representing types of network elements in the telecommunications network. Finally, the identified values are normalized according to the network model and written to a networking database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew BROWN, Philippe Rene, Eric Soutar, Peyo Tzolov, Achint Sandhu