Patents by Inventor Robert Mark Yacobi

Robert Mark Yacobi 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 for prohibiting continual routing of a call between central office switches due to translation data error
    Patent number: 5717750
    Abstract: A method for detecting translation data error in a central office switch comprises: receiving a call directed to a ported directory number in a switch; retrieving translation data from the switch memory to connect the call to a customer line; and determining that the call cannot be completed to a customer line served by the switch. Upon determining that the call cannot be connected to a customer line served by the switch, a translation data error (TDE) indicator is set in the switch memory so that the instant call, and all subsequent calls directed to the same ported directory number, are connected to an announcement circuit. An translation data error message is also sent to a central switch maintenance and control center by the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: William Lowell Adams, Jr., Valerie Y. Boyle, Ronald Bruce Martin, Robert Allen Swanson, Douglas Paul Totel, Robert Mark Yacobi