Patents by Inventor Linda Ranney

Linda Ranney 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).

  • Telecommunications system craft interface device with parser having object-oriented state machine
    Patent number: 6307546
    Abstract: A craft interface device for accessing, maintaining and provisioning a telecommunications network includes a graphical user interface, a domain modeling framework, and a communications framework which includes a parser. The graphical user interface is operatively connected to a monitor for displaying thereon structural components of the telecommunications network and for indicating, on the monitor, operating relationships among the structural components. The domain modeling framework is operatively connected to the graphical user interface for supplying thereto descriptions of the objects to be displayed. The communications framework is operatively connected to the domain modeling framework for generating and transmitting, in response to user commands detected by the graphical user interface, data requests over a data link of the network and for reading data lines arriving from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P.
    Inventors: Gregory Wickham, Linda Ranney, Peter Thompson