Patents by Inventor Kent McCammon
Kent McCammon 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).
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Publication number: 20230216593Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
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Patent number: 11626927Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
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Publication number: 20220158747Abstract: A system may use a single fiber combining module (SFCM) that combines multiple wavelength channels of different optical technologies over a single fiber. In an example, a SFCM may include a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) port, wherein the GPON passes signals at a first wavelength range; a XGS PON port, wherein the XGS-PON port passes signals at a second wavelength range; a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) port, wherein the DWDM port passes signals at a third wavelength range, wherein the first frequency range, the second frequency range, and the third wavelength range are different; and a common port connected with a fiber, the common port simultaneously combining signals from the GPON port, XGS-PON port, and the DWDM port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Abdellah Tazi, Kent McCammon, Edward Walter
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Patent number: 11283538Abstract: A system may use a single fiber combining module (SFCM) that combines multiple wavelength channels of different optical technologies over a single fiber. In an example, a SFCM may include a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) port, wherein the GPON passes signals at a first wavelength range; a XGS PON port, wherein the XGS-PON port passes signals at a second wavelength range; a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) port, wherein the DWDM port passes signals at a third wavelength range, wherein the first frequency range, the second frequency range, and the third wavelength range are different; and a common port connected with a fiber, the common port simultaneously combining signals from the GPON port, XGS-PON port, and the DWDM port.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Abdellah Tazi, Kent McCammon, Edward Walter
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Publication number: 20220085893Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
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Patent number: 11218222Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
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Publication number: 20210281347Abstract: A system may use a single fiber combining module (SFCM) that combines multiple wavelength channels of different optical technologies over a single fiber. In an example, a SFCM may include a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) port, wherein the GPON passes signals at a first wavelength range; a XGS PON port, wherein the XGS-PON port passes signals at a second wavelength range; a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) port, wherein the DWDM port passes signals at a third wavelength range, wherein the first frequency range, the second frequency range, and the third wavelength range are different; and a common port connected with a fiber, the common port simultaneously combining signals from the GPON port, XGS-PON port, and the DWDM port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Ricky Perry, Abdellah Tazi, Kent McCammon, Edward Walter
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Patent number: 9156436Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle, an unlock code is entered via the user interface and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: PRA Group, Inc.Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
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Publication number: 20150239429Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, a user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and a processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle the owner utilizes the user interface to enter unlock code and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
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SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS THAT FACILITATE SATISFACTION OF FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS
Publication number: 20140032402Abstract: Financial obligation satisfaction methods, systems and computer program products aggregate data from a plurality of third parties regarding financial obligations of a plurality of persons, monitor the data to determine if a person has exceeded a threshold number of financial obligations and/or a threshold financial obligation amount, and initiate a financial obligations satisfaction process in response to determining that the person has exceeded a threshold number of financial obligations and/or a threshold financial obligation amount. Initiating a financial obligation satisfaction process may include distraining property of the person and may include providing information about how to satisfy the one or more financial obligations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Inventors: Neal Harris Stern, Peter Kent McCammon, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine, Francesco Domenico Mancia, Glen Alyn Everroad -
Publication number: 20130226795Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, a user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and a processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle the owner utilizes the user interface to enter unlock code and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
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Publication number: 20070212072Abstract: A method and system for upgrading service to an optical network terminal among a plurality of optical network terminals on a passive optical network. The upgrade enables bidirectional communications between a central office and the optical network terminal over dedicated downstream and upstream wavelength channels outside the downstream and upstream wavelength bands associated with the passive optical network. The optical network terminal to receive upgraded service is disconnected from a passive optical splitter at a remote node serving the optical network terminal, and optically coupled to a port of the multi-port arrayed waveguide grating at the remote node. Wavelength taps are provided at the central office and the remote node to facilitate multiplexing and demultiplexing the dedicated downstream and upstream channels with the downstream and upstream wavelength bands associated with the passive optical network.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Patrick Iannone, Mark Feuer, Kenneth Reichmann, Kent McCammon
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Publication number: 20070121811Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for an opt-in voice session recording in a communication device. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (200) having a transceiver (102) for communicating with a second communication device, an audio system (206) for exchanging audible signals with an end user of the communication device, and a controller (214) for managing operations of the transceiver and the audio system. The controller can be programmed to establish (304) a voice session with the second communication device, transmit (308) to the second communication device a request to record the voice session, receive (316) from the second communication device a grant to record the voice session, and record (320) the voice session in response to the grant. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2005Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: SBC Knowledge Ventures LPInventors: Goangshiuan Ying, Eugene Edmon, Steve Aspell, Kent McCammon