Patents by Inventor Robert John Tinsley

Robert John Tinsley 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 systems for providing message translation, accounting and routing service in a multi-protocol communications network environment
    Patent number: 6967956
    Abstract: A network element that is capable facilitating the routing and accounting of messages between a plurality of network elements that do not share a common signaling application protocol nor a common transport protocol suite. In one embodiment of the present invention, a Multi-Protocol Gateway (MPG) is adapted to receive a signaling message and subsequently translate both the signaling and transport protocol suite prior to message routing. The MPG node is also configured to create and maintain usage and measurements data that may subsequently be used to produce billing records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Tekelec
    Inventors: Robert John Tinsley, Peter Joseph Marsico, David Michael Sprague
  • Distributed signaling system 7 (SS7) message routing gateway
    Patent number: 6965592
    Abstract: A distributed gateway includes distributed gateway routing elements co-located with SS7 network elements. Each distributed gateway routing element performs an SS7 routing function, such an MTP level 3 routing function. The distributed gateway routing elements communicate with each other over a virtual bus that guarantees quality of service for SS7 message packets. Accordingly, the distributed gateway routing elements set quality of service parameters in the SS7 message packets that are forwarded over the virtual bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Tekelec
    Inventors: Robert John Tinsley, Peter Joseph Marsico, Lee Barfield Smith, Virgil Elmer Long, Gregory Allen Hunt
  • Distributed signaling system 7 (SS7) message routing gateway
    Publication number: 20020131400
    Abstract: A distributed gateway includes distributed gateway routing elements co-located with SS7 network elements. Each distributed gateway routing element performs an SS7 routing function, such an MTP level 3 routing function. The distributed gateway routing elements communicate with each other over a virtual bus that guarantees quality of service for SS7 message packets. Accordingly, the distributed gateway routing elements set quality of service parameters in the SS7 message packets that are forwarded over the virtual bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: Robert John Tinsley, Peter Joseph Marsico, Lee Barfield Smith, Virgil Elmer Long, Gregory Allen Hunt