Patents by Inventor Robert Francis Dailey

Robert Francis Dailey 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).

  • Methods and apparatus to provide service assurance for communication networks
    Patent number: 8526314
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide service assurance for communication networks are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a service provisioning server to initiate provisioning of a service to a user device, and a service testing server to perform a test of the service and to report a service test result to the service provisioning server, the service testing server responsive to a request from the user device to initiate the test of the service, the user device automatically generating the request in response to the service provisioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Haifeng Bi, Robert Francis Dailey
  • Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over internet protocol networks
    Patent number: 7991139
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to limit ring trees in voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) networks are disclosed. A disclosed example parallel ring policy enforcer comprises a memory to hold parallel ring tree information and a policy checker to enforce a parallel ring policy based on a parallel ring request and the parallel ring tree information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Robert Francis Dailey
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE SERVICE ASSURANCE FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20080049623
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide service assurance for communication networks are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a service provisioning server to initiate provisioning of a service to a user device, and a service testing server to perform a test of the service and to report a service test result to the service provisioning server, the service testing server responsive to a request from the user device to initiate the test of the service, the user device automatically generating the request in response to the service provisioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Haifeng Bi, Robert Francis Dailey