Patents by Inventor Eric Woerner

Eric Woerner 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: 8055755
    Abstract: A system and method make quality measurements in a network to determine if a Service Level Agreement is breached. The system includes a plurality of routers for routing traffic through the network, means for taking measurements on a path between a first router and a second router, and means for charging at least one of the plurality of routers when data related to the measurements falls below a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert G. Cole, Howard L. Lang, Eric Woerner
  • Publication number: 20060002534
    Abstract: A method employs call detail records for developing a report on the usage of VoIP calling along a network path or through a network location. By utilizing, for example, a call-beginning record and a call-ending record for each connection, a report is created of the number of concurrent VoIP calls that a specified equipment or network path carries at any given instance by retrieving batches of stored call detail records, culling the records that are relevant to the specified equipment or network path, considering the culled records in a time sorted manner, and incrementing or decrementing a counter based on whether a considered record is a call-beginning record or a call-ending record, respectively. The state of the counter is reported, illustratively, as a line entry each time the counter's state is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Howard Lang, Eric Woerner, Jaap Voets
  • Publication number: 20050198266
    Abstract: A system and method make quality measurements in a network to determine if a Service Level Agreement is breached. The system includes a plurality of routers for routing traffic through the network, means for taking measurements on a path between a first router and a second router, and means for charging at least one of the plurality of routers when data related to the measurements falls below a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Cole, Howard Lang, Eric Woerner