Patents by Inventor Joseph William Keller

Joseph William Keller 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).

  • Methods and systems for distributing operating status information within a converged network
    Patent number: 8224928
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications network element that is capable of routing signaling messages and also performing inter-network management functions in a converged telephony-data network environment. A signaling gateway routing node is adapted to facilitate signaling communication between nodes in a signaling system 7 network and nodes in an Internet protocol (IP) type network. In addition to basic message routing functionality, the signaling gateway routing node is adapted to notify nodes in the IP network when a node in the SS7 network becomes congested or unavailable. In certain cases, the signaling gateway selectively notifies only IP nodes that are concerned with the status of the troubled SS7 node, while in other cases, notification messages are broadcast to all relevant IP nodes. The signaling gateway also serves to filter redundant congestion status queries or polling type messages that are conveyed from IP nodes through to the distressed SS7 node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Tekelec, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Alan Brendes, Joseph William Keller, Seetharaman Khadri
  • Methods and systems for managing status audit messages in a gateway routing node
    Patent number: 7743131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications network element that is capable of routing signaling messages and also performing inter-network management functions in a converged telephony-data network environment. A signaling gateway routing node is adapted to facilitate signaling communication between nodes in a signaling system 7 network and nodes in an Internet protocol (IP) type network. In addition to basic message routing functionality, the signaling gateway routing node is adapted to notify nodes in the IP network when a node in the SS7 network becomes congested or unavailable. In certain cases, the signaling gateway selectively notifies only IP nodes that are concerned with the status of the troubled SS7 node, while in other cases, notification messages are broadcast to all relevant IP nodes. The signaling gateway also serves to filter redundant congestion status queries or polling type messages that are conveyed from IP nodes through to the distressed SS7 node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Tekelec
    Inventors: Dan Alan Brendes, Joseph William Keller, Seetharaman Khadri
  • Methods and systems for providing converged network management functionality in a gateway routing node to communicate operating status information associated with a signaling system 7 (SS7) node to a data network node
    Patent number: 7318091
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications network element that is capable of routing signaling messages and also performing inter-network management functions in a converged telephony-data network environment. A signaling gateway routing node is adapted to facilitate signaling communication between nodes in a signaling system 7 network and nodes in an Internet protocol (IP) type network. In addition to basic message routing functionality, the signaling gateway routing node is adapted to notify nodes in the IP network when a node in the SS7 network becomes congested or unavailable. In certain cases, the signaling gateway selectively notifies only IP nodes that are concerned with the status of the troubled SS7 node, while in other cases, notification messages are broadcast to all relevant IP nodes. The signaling gateway also serves to filter redundant congestion status queries or polling type messages that are conveyed from IP nodes through to the distressed SS7 node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Tekelec
    Inventors: Dan Alan Brendes, Joseph William Keller, Seetharaman Khadri
  • Methods and systems for providing converged network management functionality in a gateway routing node
    Publication number: 20010049730
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications network element that is capable of routing signaling messages and also performing inter-network management functions in a converged telephony-data network environment. A signaling gateway routing node is adapted to facilitate signaling communication between nodes in a signaling system 7 network and nodes in an Internet protocol (IP) type network. In addition to basic message routing functionality, the signaling gateway routing node is adapted to notify nodes in the IP network when a node in the SS7 network becomes congested or unavailable. In certain cases, the signaling gateway selectively notifies only IP nodes that are concerned with the status of the troubled SS7 node, while in other cases, notification messages are broadcast to all relevant IP nodes. The signaling gateway also serves to filter redundant congestion status queries or polling type messages that are conveyed from IP nodes through to the distressed SS7 node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventors: Dan Alan Brendes, Joseph William Keller, Seetharaman Khadri