Patents by Inventor Karen Louise Barrett

Karen Louise Barrett 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 and apparatus for determining endpoints for use as testing devices
    Patent number: 7352705
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a digital network having a plurality of subnetworks by determining by one of a plurality of user endpoint devices assigned to one of the plurality of subnetworks upon the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices being idle that the one of the plurality of user endpoint devices should perform the functions of a testing user endpoint device for the one of the plurality of subnetworks; identifying the one of plurality of user endpoint devices to a server or a distributed system of servers as a testing user endpoint device; obtaining the identifies of other testing user endpoint devices in other ones of the plurality of subnetworks from the server; and testing the network by transmission of test packets to other ones of the testing user endpoint devices in the other ones of the plurality of subnetworks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Avaya Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Akshay Arun Adhikari, Karen Louise Barrett, Lorraine Denby, Neil Hepworth, Jean Meloche