Patents by Inventor Evan Pedersen

Evan Pedersen 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: 20160065736
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and non-transitory storage media to receive ticket information of a ticket that indicates a problem in providing a service to a customer; receive event information that indicates an action performed by at least one of a device or a person to resolve the ticket; select a filter, among multiple filters, to filter the event information based on the action indicated in the event information; select a criteria rule, from among multiple criteria rules, based on filtered event information and parameters included in the criteria rule, wherein each criteria rule includes parameters and values for each parameter; select an output result rule, from among multiple output result rules, that maps to the criteria rule; generate a message that provides an update to a status of the ticket based on the filtered event information and the output result rule; and transmit the message to the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Evan Pedersen, Belinda A. Franklin-Barr, Tad E. Smith
  • Patent number: 8756306
    Abstract: A device receives multiple identifiers associated with a customer of a network, receives multiple products associated with the customer and provided by the network, groups the multiple identifiers into a single customer identifier, and associates the single customer identifier with the multiple products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Duane B. Whitsett, Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. Derose
  • Patent number: 8676655
    Abstract: A device displays multiple products associated with a customer of a network and provided by the network, receives a customer selection of a filtering mechanism, and one of increases or reduces a display of the multiple products based on the customer selection of the filtering mechanism and based on device types associated with the multiple products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. DeRose, David J. Vohsman
  • Patent number: 8630886
    Abstract: An approach is provided for online trouble ticket servicing. As part of a workflow, one or more activities, which are associated with a trouble ticket corresponding to a service, are monitored, wherein the one or more activities are tracked by a workflow engine. Status information is repeatedly acquired for the one or more activities until a predetermined milestone is reached according to the workflow. The status information is stored for presentation to a subscriber of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Karen Monk, Mark Weissler
  • Patent number: 8494911
    Abstract: A device receives multiple products associated with a customer of a network and provided by the network, matches the multiple products with multiple maintenance events, and displays multiple visual indicators indicating status of the multiple maintenance events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. Derose, David J. Vohsman
  • Publication number: 20130090976
    Abstract: An approach is provided for online trouble ticket servicing. As part of a workflow, one or more activities, which are associated with a trouble ticket corresponding to a service, are monitored, wherein the one or more activities are tracked by a workflow engine. Status information is repeatedly acquired for the one or more activities until a predetermined milestone is reached according to the workflow. The status information is stored for presentation to a subscriber of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Karen Monk, Mark Weissler
  • Publication number: 20130073470
    Abstract: An approach is provided for online trouble ticket servicing. Communication is initiated with a user for creation of a trouble ticket by an online trouble ticket service. A determination is made whether the user is associated with an online account of the trouble ticket service. Based on the determination, a graphical user interface is presented and includes a feedback area to specify information indicating a reason for non-usage of the online account for the trouble ticket service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Rebecca S. Little, Xiao-Qing Li, Robert Scherer
  • Publication number: 20110066559
    Abstract: An approach for automatically generating a status update for events on a trouble ticket is provided. Events on the trouble ticket monitored and a determination is made whether an event triggers a predetermined status update criteria. A status update is generated upon triggering of the predetermined status update criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
    Inventors: Chris White, Robert Scherer, Duane Whitsett, Evan Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20090007145
    Abstract: A device receives multiple products associated with a customer of a network and provided by the network, matches the multiple products with multiple maintenance events, and displays multiple visual indicators indicating status of the multiple maintenance events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Verizon Business Network Services Inc.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. Derose, David J. Vohsman
  • Publication number: 20090006591
    Abstract: A device receives multiple identifiers associated with a customer of a network, receives multiple products associated with the customer and provided by the network, groups the multiple identifiers into a single customer identifier, and associates the single customer identifier with the multiple products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Verizon Business Network Services Inc.
    Inventors: Duane B. Whitsett, Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. DeRose
  • Publication number: 20090006112
    Abstract: A device displays multiple products associated with a customer of a network and provided by the network, receives a customer selection of a filtering mechanism, and one of increases or reduces a display of the multiple products based on the customer selection of the filtering mechanism and based on device types associated with the multiple products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Verizon Business Network Services Inc.
    Inventors: Chris L. White, Evan Pedersen, Edmund G. Dombrowski, Eric S. DeRose, David J. Vohsman