Patents by Inventor Gerald Winton Lankford

Gerald Winton Lankford 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: 8179922
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself, instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure sends a request to a mobile device, asking that it return data regarding its location. The carrier networks handling the request insert location information into the packet that is sent to the mobile device, but this information is not sent to the data service provider infrastructure itself. The mobile device harvests this location information from the packets it receives and inserts it in a response packet that finds its way back to the data service provider infrastructure. The data service provider infrastructure is able to collate this location data and to analyze it, determining the carrier network's health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Allan D. Lewis, Mihal Lazaridis, Gerald Winton Lankford, Herbert A. Little, Hugh Hind, Ian M. Patterson
  • Publication number: 20100020697
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself, instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure sends a request to a mobile device, asking that it return data regarding its location. The carrier networks handling the request insert location information into the packet that is sent to the mobile device, but this information is not sent to the data service provider infrastructure itself. The mobile device harvests this location information from the packets it receives and inserts it in a response packet that finds its way back to the data service provider infrastructure. The data service provider infrastructure is able to collate this location data and to analyze it, determining the carrier network's health.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: ALLAN D. LEWIS, MIHAL LAZARIDIS, GERALD WINTON LANKFORD, HERBERT A. LITTLE, HUGH HIND, IAN M. PATTERSON
  • Patent number: 7616665
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the health of a wireless telecommunication network. Network health is monitored without placing an administrative burden on the carrier network itself; instead, this burden is placed on components that lie outside the carrier network and pass communications through it. The data service provider infrastructure sends a request to a mobile device, asking that it return data regarding its location. The carrier networks handling the request insert location information into the packet that is sent to the mobile device, but this information is not sent to the data service provider infrastructure itself. The mobile device harvests this location information from the packets it receives and inserts it in a response packet that finds its way back to the data service provider infrastructure. The data service provider infrastructure is able to collate this location data and to analyze it, determining the carrier network's health.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Allan D. Lewis, Mihal Lazaridis, Gerald Winton Lankford, Herbert A. Little, Hugh Hind, Ian M. Patterson
  • Patent number: 7502962
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recovering from software processing errors are provided. The systems and methods provide for the validation of data following the occurrence of a software processing error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David P. Yach, Gerald Winton Lankford, Jr., John F. A. Dahms, Anthony F. Scian, Sean E. Wilson