Patents by Inventor John Buford, Ph.D.

John Buford, Ph.D. 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).

  • Method for Telephony Client Synchronization in Telephone Virtualization
    Publication number: 20110069699
    Abstract: A method is provided for the use of a signaling protocol stack by telephony applications which run on different system software images. When a telecommunications session is conducted by a first telephony application, the first telephony application typically controls the state of the telecommunications session through a signaling protocol stack executing on the same system software image as the first telephony application. When control over the telecommunications session is passed from the first telephony application to a second telephony application, the second telephony applications begins controlling the state of the telecommunications session through the same signaling protocol stack by using remote procedure calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: AVAYA INC.
    Inventors: Mehmet C. Balasaygun, John Buford, Ph.D., Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Xiaotao Wu