Patents by Inventor Louise Croughan

Louise Croughan 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).

  • Dynamic load limiting
    Patent number: 6707900
    Abstract: A service switching point counts the number of pending queries sent to a service control point and awaiting a response. When the counted number reaches a threshold, further call attempts are rejected. This prevents the load on the service control point from becoming excessive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bart Jellema, Rene Peeren, Louise Croughan, Freek Aben
  • Validation of procedures
    Patent number: 6487676
    Abstract: A method of validating a procedure allows several processes to be involved in the validation of a single event. The method involves defining relationships between FSMs which describe the entities, selecting the processes which fulfill certain criteria, and processing the event in all of the selected processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Bart Jellema, Rene Peeren, Louise Croughan, Freek Aben
  • METHOD FOR HANDLING TELEPHONE CALLS
    Publication number: 20020154756
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for handling telephone calls, which allows a control point to determine whether a part of a query, received from a switching point, would be better handled by a second control point. In response to such a determination, the control point returns a specific instruction to the switching point, directing it to send a query to the second control point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: BART JELLEMA, RENE PEEREN, LOUISE CROUGHAN, FREEK ABEN
  • User interaction procedure
    Patent number: 6041115
    Abstract: A user interaction procedure in an Intelligent Networks system may include several stages, such as playing an announcement to a user, and receiving digits entered by the user. The switching point returns messages to the control point at intermediate stages during the procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventors: Bart Jellema, Rene Peeren, Louise Croughan, Freek Aben