Patents by Inventor Michael Anthony Gell

Michael Anthony Gell 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).

  • Accounting system in a communication network
    Patent number: 6577858
    Abstract: A communication system includes a communication utilizing apparatus connectable to a communications network and service provision apparatus for making services available to the communications utilizing apparatus. An accounting device is associated with the communications utilizing apparatus and includes a digital data storage device arranged to store details of the receipt of services by the communications utilizing apparatus a signalling circuit arranged to receive, via the communications network, signals indicating a payment due in respect of services provided by the service provision apparatus, and a comparison device arranged to compare the received indications with data derived from the stored details.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Gell
  • Method and apparatus for controlling call acceptance in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 6192031
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling call acceptance in a telecommunications network. The volume of traffic being handled at a node of the network is periodically measured. For each measurement, a corresponding one of a set of storage locations is identified and the value stored in the identified location is incremented. An index of variation of measurement distribution is determined from the stored values in the set. In the event that the determined index exceeds a threshold value, calls for that node are re-routed or rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Anthony Andrew Reeder, Michael Anthony Gell, Rolando Antonio Carrasco, Dominic Piers Greenwood
  • Transaction support apparatus
    Patent number: 6108632
    Abstract: A transaction support apparatus is used by one or more human transaction operators, each provided with a telephone. It includes a speech recognition device having: a speech input coupled to receive a speech signal input to a telephone by a transactiob operator, a speech recognition processor arranged to recognize predetermined transaction parameters within the speech signal; and a parameter output at which the speech recognition device is arranged to make values of the parameters thus recognized available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Anthony Andrew Reeder, Kim James Fisher, Michael Anthony Gell, Laurence Daniel Bradley
  • System for selective communication connection based on transaction pricing signals
    Patent number: 5802502
    Abstract: A communications network in which user equipment is provided with a selecting device which communicates with a pricing device in service provider equipment. When communications or other services are required, the selection circuit polls a plurality of service providers, and the pricing circuit of each service provider generates a price signal indicating the level of price for its services. The selection circuit then selects a service provider, based on price (and also other factors such as quality of service).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Gell, Michael Robert Wistow Manning, Jose-Luis Fernandez-Villacanas Martin