Patents by Inventor Richard C. Taylor

Richard C. Taylor 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: 10592865
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing social interaction information. The method includes receiving first social interaction information associated with a user of a first over the top (OTT) service platform. The method also includes receiving second social interaction information associated with the user, the second social interaction information from a communications service platform distinct from the first OTT service platform. The method further includes generating, using the first social interaction information and the second social interaction information, consolidated social interaction information and providing the consolidated social interaction information to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10080118
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing associations between users in multiple over-the-top (OTT) service platforms. The method includes receiving a first message indicating an action associated with a first user in a first OTT service platform. The method also includes generating, based on the first message, a second message for performing a related action in a second OTT service platform. The method further includes communicating the second message to the second OTT service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10009313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9900351
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing legacy devices access to a session initiation protocol (SIP) based network are disclosed. One exemplary system comprises a session initiation protocol (SIP) based access proxy element communicatively coupled to a SIP based network that includes a registration engine configured to create a mapped entry in a database that associates an assigned SIP registration identifier to an identifier corresponding to a legacy endpoint device and configured to register the legacy endpoint device into the SIP based network using the assigned SIP registration identifier. The SIP based access proxy element further includes a session management module configured to establish a communications session involving the registered legacy endpoint device by interworking between a legacy control protocol and a SIP based call control protocol using the mapped entry in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventor: Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20150326525
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9087363
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20140073300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing telecommunication services using proximity-based technologies are described. In some embodiments, a method may include detecting, by a first communication device (e.g., a laptop computer, a netbook computer, a tablet computer, a cellular phone, a smartphone, etc.), a proximity device (e.g., a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, a Near Field Communications (NFC) tag, etc.) coupled to or integrated within a second communication device. The method may also include triggering an operation configured to manage a telecommunication service based, at least in part, upon the detection of the proximity device. In some implementations, the operation may be configured to reduce a number of manual operations that would otherwise be involved in managing the telecommunication service. For instance, in a non-limiting example, the operation may cause a routing of a communication directed at the first communication device to the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20130054701
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for managing multiple personas within end user applications are disclosed. According to one method, a first profile definition defining a first persona through which a user accesses at least one social networking, OTT, or other hosted service and at least one trigger condition associated with the activation of the first persona is accessed. The method further includes determining a context for the user. The method further includes determining whether the context for the user satisfies the at least one trigger condition. In response to determining that the context satisfies the at least one trigger condition, the first persona is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: MICHAEL LEEDER, CARROLL LOUISE GRAY-PRESTON, JAMES ANGUS MCEACHERN, RICHARD C. TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20130040633
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing associations between users in multiple over-the-top (OTT) service platforms. The method includes receiving a first message indicating an action associated with a first user in a first OTT service platform. The method also includes generating, based on the first message, a second message for performing a related action in a second OTT service platform. The method further includes communicating the second message to the second OTT service platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20130036177
    Abstract: According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing social interaction information. The method includes receiving first social interaction information associated with a user of a first over the top (OTT) service platform. The method also includes receiving second social interaction information associated with the user, the second social interaction information from a communications service platform distinct from the first OTT service platform. The method further includes generating, using the first social interaction information and the second social interaction information, consolidated social interaction information and providing the consolidated social interaction information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, James Angus McEachern, Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20130024575
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing legacy devices access to a session initiation protocol (SIP) based network are disclosed. One exemplary system comprises a session initiation protocol (SIP) based access proxy element communicatively coupled to a SIP based network that includes a registration engine configured to create a mapped entry in a database that associates an assigned SIP registration identifier to an identifier corresponding to a legacy endpoint device and configured to register the legacy endpoint device into the SIP based network using the assigned SIP registration identifier. The SIP based access proxy element further includes a session management module configured to establish a communications session involving the registered legacy endpoint device by interworking between a legacy control protocol and a SIP based call control protocol using the mapped entry in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventor: Richard C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 8032945
    Abstract: A submarine escape suit is made longitudinally adjustable by elastic adjustment members (20a, 20b) that extend along the sides of the suit between the ankle region and the arms of the suit. This provides a long adjustment length which allows a wide range of wearer heights to be accommodated. The members (20a, 20b) are encased in non-snag covers (29). A central adjustment strap (21) is also provided and is also partially encased in a non-snag cover (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Survitec Group Limited
    Inventors: Richard C. Taylor, Steve Littler, Robert J Prendergast
  • Patent number: 8006317
    Abstract: The submarine escape suit has a hood (14) covering the head of a wearer during ascent from a submarine. In order to allow the wearer to expose his/her face, the hood (14) is provided with a portion (21) overlying the face of a wearer that is releasable from the remainder of the hood (14). The releasable portion (21) may be re-attachable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Survitec Group Limited
    Inventors: Richard C. Taylor, Steve Littler, Robert J Prendergast
  • Patent number: 7646761
    Abstract: A communications system that supports multimedia components is easily adapted to existing network elements. Voice components arriving at or coming from a user having multimedia capabilities are referred from a telephony server serving the user to a multimedia server. A determination is made as to whether the other party supports multimedia capabilities. If that determination is negative, the component is passed back to the telephony server with an indication that the session is coming from the multimedia server to avoid an infinite loop. If the determination is positive, a parallel multimedia component is established between the parties while the multimedia server remains aware of the bearer path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Richard C. Taylor, Craik R. Pyke
  • Patent number: 7639698
    Abstract: A transit domain is a domain in which trusted communications are generally required, and a foreign domain is one in which any number entities are associated. The users within a foreign domain will have a trusted relationship with their foreign domain. In turn, the foreign domain will establish a trusted relationship with the transit domain. The users in the foreign domains need not have a direct relationship with the transit domains. The foreign domains are connected by the transit domains, and session messages used to establish and control communication sessions between entities must pass through the transit domains to travel from one foreign domain to another. These session messages intended for or originating from a foreign domain are processed by edge control nodes in the transit domain, based on a service policy, which has been established for the foreign domain associated with the session message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Dany Sylvain, Richard C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090313747
    Abstract: The submarine escape suit has a hood (14) covering the head of a wearer during ascent from a submarine. In order to allow the wearer to expose his/her face, the hood (14) is provided with a portion (21) overlying the face of a wearer that is releasable from the remainder of the hood (14). The releasable portion (21) may be re-attachable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: SURVITEC GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard C. Taylor, Steve Littler, Robert J. Prendergast
  • Publication number: 20040062230
    Abstract: A communications system that supports multimedia components is easily adapted to existing network elements. Voice components arriving at or coming from a user having multimedia capabilities are referred from a telephony server serving the user to a multimedia server. A determination is made as to whether the other party supports multimedia capabilities. If that determination is negative, the component is passed back to the telephony server with an indication that the session is coming from the multimedia server to avoid an infinite loop. If the determination is positive, a parallel multimedia component is established between the parties while the multimedia server remains aware of the bearer path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard C. Taylor, Craik R. Pyke
  • Publication number: 20030179747
    Abstract: A system and method for intercepting a telecommunication signal are generally provided, in which the system and method affect receiving a telecommunication packet, comprising a header and a payload, removing a first header from the packet, replicating the payload and adding a second header to replicated payload and directing the replicated payload to the address associated with the second.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Craik R Pyke, William Hern, Roger L Thompson, Serge S Caron, Halima H Mounki, Charles B Ewoti, Michael C Goerens, Peter J Streng, Christopher J Goertzen, Christian Kittlitz, Richard C. Taylor, Michael L Welham
  • Patent number: 5433821
    Abstract: A predetermined electrical circuit pattern or discrete features composed of discrete, electrically conducting metal pathways and non-conducting spaces therebetween is formed on a dielectric substrate by(1) depositing a continuous layer of an electrically conducting metal on a surface of the substrate,(2) contacting the metal layer with a mask head defining a system of ridges and valleys therein, the ridges corresponding to the pathways of the target electrical circuitry pattern or discrete features and the valleys corresponding to the spaces of the target pattern, the ridges in the mask head contacting the metal layer in sealing arrangement with the portions of the metal layer coming into contact with the ridges, and(3) contacting the metal layer with an etchant to remove the portions of the metal layer in the spaces and thereby form the target electrical circuitry or discrete features pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas L. Miller, Richard C. Taylor, Michael R. Gaige
  • Patent number: 5010491
    Abstract: A lapping machine control system which utilizes a electromechanical probe to generate a signal responsive to the separation of the laps, which also represents the thickness of the part being lapped. The separation signal, which is unsuitable for direct control since it is too noisy, is used with a best fit algorithm to estimate the time to reduce the part to the desired thickness, based on the rate of material removal provided by extrapolated line representing the best fit of the lap separation signal. The machining is terminated when the extrapolated line reaches the intercept of time and thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Alberto Biasillo, Richard C. Taylor