Patents by Inventor Philip Treventi

Philip Treventi 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).

  • Patent number: 10075397
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Jeffrey S. Martin, Thomas Oplinger, Philip A. Treventi, Hopeton S. Walker
  • Publication number: 20160021030
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Jeffrey S. Martin, Thomas Oplinger, Philip A. Treventi, Hopeton S. Walker
  • Patent number: 9154530
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Jeffrey S. Martin, Thomas Oplinger, Philip A. Treventi, Hopeton S. Walker
  • Publication number: 20060159116
    Abstract: The present invention provides a facility management platform to monitor and view the status of a plurality of individually addressable downstream devices including, but not limited to, addressable terminals, IRG's, settops, cable modems, taps, nodes, and/or hubs at a network control center. The FMP may display problems at these downstream devices, for example, power loss, and/or may automatically notify the appropriate companies and/or personnel to correct the problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Jeffrey Martin, Thomas Oplinger, Philip Treventi, Hopeton Walker
  • Publication number: 20050254484
    Abstract: An device, called a facilities management platform (FMP) connects current digital and analog carrier networks and packet switched networks of interexchange carriers with high speed multiple access subscriber links implemented over twisted pair lines. The subscriber line is terminated by an access module containing one or more modems. In preferred embodiments, the modems are high-speed digital tethered virtual radio channel or xDSL modems. The FMP interface applies and receives signaling and voice through a digital loop carrier (DLC) via a multiplexer connected directly to the DLC backplane. The multiplexer is controlled by a controller of an access module. It translates data from the subscriber link to the form compatible with the digital backplane to create the appearance of one or more line cards. The FMP also may contain a sound generator to allow it to handle calls through an analog carrier network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Philip Treventi
  • Publication number: 20050147089
    Abstract: A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the equipment to an existing twisted cable pair and a facilities management platform (FMP) at the serving local switching office as an interface to various networks and service opportunities, new services such as simultaneous, multiple calls (voice analog or digital), facsimile, Internet traffic and other data can be transmitted and received over the twisted cable pair by using digital subscriber loop transmission schemes. The new services include but are not limited to videophone, utility meter reading and monitoring, broadcasting and multicasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Robert Miller, Dennis Romain, Jesse Russell, Philip Treventi
  • Publication number: 20050128941
    Abstract: A subscriber link to a central office which employs data compression, forward error correction, and advanced modulation techniques and to connect subscribers to multiple communications networks to provide an array of services. A device provides normal telephone service in the event of an equipment failure. At the subscriber end, a server called an intelligent services director (ISD) provides multiple independent connections for telephones which ordinarily connect to multiple access virtual circuits generated on the subscriber link over a twisted pair. A device called a facilities management platform (FMP) at the central office end of the link, among other things, provides interfacing of the subscriber link to various networks including a digital subscriber loop (DLC) and packet switched networks. Ordinarily telephones connected to the ISD require power and correctly functioning modems and controllers in the ISD and the FMP to have access to the outside world.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Philip Treventi
  • Publication number: 20050068945
    Abstract: A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the equipment to an existing twisted cable pair and a facilities management platform (FMP) at the serving local switching office as an interface to various networks and service opportunities, new services such as simultaneous, multiple calls (voice analog or digital), facsimile, Internet traffic and other data can be transmitted and received over the twisted cable pair by using digital subscriber loop transmission schemes. The new services include but are not limited to videophone, utility meter reading and monitoring, broadcasting and multicasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Irwin Gerszberg, Robert Miller, Dennis Romain, Jesse Russell, Philip Treventi
  • Patent number: 5633868
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing a virtual circuit network is disclosed that enables hand-off management. An illustrative embodiment establishes a virtual ciruit by receiving, at a radio port, a virtual circuit identifier from a wireless terminal and attaching the virtual circuit identifier to an OA&M cell. The radio port then transmits, over a pre-established unidirectional virtual ciruit, the OA&M cell to a radio port manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Baldwin, Helen Chu, Bharat T. Doshi, Subrahmanyam Dravida, Sanjiv Nanda, Philip A. Treventi
  • Patent number: 5204902
    Abstract: A secure cellular telephony arrangement where the mobile unit maintains a secret that is assigned to it by the service provider, and which is known to the provider (home cellular geographic service are--CGSA) but not to any other base station. A shared secret datum is generated by the home CGSA with the aid of the secret and some other data. That data is transmitted to the mobile unit to enable it to also generate the shared secret datum. A mobile unit wishing to communicate with a base station creates an authentication string with the aid of the shared secret datum and sends it and the unit's identity to the base station. A base station which does not have the shared secret datum is unable to immediately authenticate the mobile unit. It therefore contacts the home CGSA, receives the shared secret datum and the other data, and proceeds to authenticate the mobile unit's authentication string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: James A. Reeds, III, Philip A. Treventi, I-Hsiang Yu
  • Patent number: 5172414
    Abstract: A protocol for authenticating a mobile customer unit to a service provider where signaling messages are encrypted and where voice communications can be encrypted. A service provider assigns to each mobile customer unit a unique "secret", along with other information such as a telephone number. At the pleasure of the service provider, a directive is sent to the mobile customer unit to create a shared secret datum based on the secret. The shared secret datum is created with the aid of a bit string that is sent for thatpurpose by the provider. A portion of the created shared secret datum is used for encrypting speech and the same or other portion of the created shared secret datum is used as an input to a process for creating a second encryption key. That key is employed in the mobile customer unit to encode those of the control signals generated by the mobile customer until that affect the nature of the call in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: James A. Reeds, III, Philip A. Treventi
  • Patent number: 5153919
    Abstract: A protocol for authenticating a cellular telephone to a service provider for the purpose of preventing the piracy of cellular services. A service provider assigns a unique "secret", along with other information such as a telephone number, to each cellular telephone when the telephone service is established with the service provider. Each base station of a service provider continuously broadcasts a periodically changing random number to all of the cellular telephones within the base station's jurisdiction. When a cellular telephone first enters the jurisdiction of a base station, it registers itself with the base station by concatenating a secret password and the most recently broadcast random number, along with other information, and passing the concatenated information to a hash function. The cellular telephone then sends the output of the hash function, along with other identifying information to the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: James A. Reeds, III, Philip A. Treventi