Patents by Inventor Richard Lynn Bennett

Richard Lynn Bennett 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).

  • Method and apparatus for managing communication resources
    Patent number: 11637873
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that performs operations including receiving a request for a communication session, determining participants of the communication session, determining a location of each participant of the communication session, selecting a virtual media server from among a group of media servers according to a location that reduces a communication path among the participants for the communication session, instantiating the virtual media server at a start time of the communication session, grouping the participants of the communication session into end points, and relaying communication session data between the end points. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Reuben Klein, Richard Lynn Bennett
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20160241604
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that performs operations including receiving a request for a communication session, determining participants of the communication session, determining a location of each participant of the communication session, selecting a virtual media server from among a group of media servers according to a location that reduces a communication path among the participants for the communication session, instantiating the virtual media server at a start time of the communication session, grouping the participants of the communication session into end points, and relaying communication session data between the end points. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: REUBEN KLEIN, Richard Lynn Bennett
  • Passive telephone monitor to control collaborative systems
    Patent number: 5742670
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using a passive telephone monitor to control collaborative systems comprising one or more local computers connected to one or more remote computers, wherein an image displayed on the local computer is substantially simultaneously displayed on the remote computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Richard Lynn Bennett