Patents by Inventor Keith Edmund O'Brien

Keith Edmund O'Brien 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).

  • System and method for providing presence based trunking in a network environment
    Patent number: 8489134
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example implementation and the method includes interacting, via a first communication resource manager located in a first domain, with a second communication resource manager located in a second domain. The method further includes determining whether to establish a link for multicasting between users in the first domain and users in the second domain, and the link between the domains is established based on presence data of at least one user in the first domain and at least one user in the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeeshan Khan, Keith Edmund O'Brien, Shmuel Shaffer
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRESENCE BASED TRUNKING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20100056196
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example implementation and the method includes interacting, via a first communication resource manager located in a first domain, with a second communication resource manager located in a second domain. The method further includes determining whether to establish a link for multicasting between users in the first domain and users in the second domain, and the link between the domains is established based on presence data of at least one user in the first domain and at least one user in the second domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeeshan Khan, Keith Edmund O'Brien, Shmuel Shaffer