Patents by Inventor Richard Charles Taylor

Richard Charles 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).

  • Dynamic insertion of a quality enhancement gateway
    Patent number: 9521015
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for enhancing media quality by dynamically inserting a quality enhancement gateway are disclosed. According to one method, steps are performed at a service node. The method includes detecting a condition associated with a session between two endpoints that indicates that the session could benefit from media quality enhancement processing. The method also includes signaling the endpoints to route at least a portion of the session through a quality enhancement gateway (QEG) capable of providing the media quality enhancement processing for the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: GENBAND US LLC
    Inventors: Dany Sylvain, Richard Charles Taylor
  • Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for creating and managing ad-hoc groups linked to an event and spanning multiple modes of communication
    Patent number: 8817663
    Abstract: A method for creating and managing ad-hoc groups linked to an event and spanning multiple modes of communication includes creating an ad-hoc group associated with an event. Available modes of communication are determined for each participant in the group. For each mode of communication, first information for contacting each participant is determined. Second information that serves as an alias for each participant is determined. A consolidated view of the available modes of communication with each of the participants in the group is provided using the aliases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Genband US LLC
    Inventors: James Angus McEachern, Richard Charles Taylor, Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, John McCready
  • METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR CREATING AND MANAGING AD-HOC GROUPS LINKED TO AN EVENT AND SPANNING MULTIPLE MODES OF COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20130176895
    Abstract: A method for creating and managing ad-hoc groups linked to an event and spanning multiple modes of communication includes creating an ad-hoc group associated with an event. Available modes of communication are determined for each participant in the group. For each mode of communication, first information for contacting each participant is determined. Second information that serves as an alias for each participant is determined. A consolidated view of the available modes of communication with each of the participants in the group is provided using the aliases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: James Angus McEachern, Richard Charles Taylor, Michael Leeder, Carroll Louise Gray-Preston, John McCready
  • DYNAMIC INSERTION OF A QUALITY ENHANCEMENT GATEWAY
    Publication number: 20120154506
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for enhancing media quality by dynamically inserting a quality enhancement gateway are disclosed. According to one method, steps are performed at a service node. The method includes detecting a condition associated with a session between two endpoints that indicates that the session could benefit from media quality enhancement processing. The method also includes signaling the endpoints to route at least a portion of the session through a quality enhancement gateway (QEG) capable of providing the media quality enhancement processing for the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Dany Sylvain, Richard Charles Taylor