Patents by Inventor Robert Stroud

Robert Stroud 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).

  • Publication number: 20110319436
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are, inter alia, compositions for modulating Ire1, Src, or Abl, methods for identifying modulating activity in test compounds, and methods for treating diseases caused by the activity or inactivity of Ire1, Src, or Abl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Peter Walter, Alexei Korennykh, Kevan M. Shokat, Chao Zhang, Janet Finer-Moore, Robert Stroud, Pascal Egea, Andrei Korostelev, Arvin Dar, Sebastian Bernales
  • Patent number: 8077847
    Abstract: A method for converting a first time and a first date in a first format to a second time in a second format includes determining a number of seconds that have elapsed between a predetermined date and a beginning of a current year of the first date. The method further includes adding to the determined number of seconds, a calculated number of seconds calculated from the beginning of the current year to a current month and a current day of the first date to obtain a first sum. The first sum varies based on whether the current month is within a leap year and is subsequent to a leap day of the leap year. A number of seconds that have elapsed between a beginning of the current day of the first date and the first time is added to the first sum. Lastly, a predetermined number of seconds is added to the first sum when Daylight Savings Time is in effect to obtain the second time in the second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Rick Anthony Cherye
  • Patent number: 8014508
    Abstract: By manipulating parameters of call setup messages, calls made with a caller's access code in a caller preview service may be completed to the called party of voice mail box with caller identification information displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, Robert Stroud, Rick Cherye
  • Patent number: 7957509
    Abstract: A method for updating communications service parameters includes receiving, at a platform configured for speech recognition functionality and corresponding to a communications address associated with verbally updating communications service parameters, a voice instruction from a requester to update a communications service parameter. The voice instruction is translated into digital command data and the digital command data and the update to the communications service parameter are stored in a database. A change in a communications service corresponding to the update to the communications service parameter is implemented in near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Susanne Marie Crockett, Dianna Inara Tiliks, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, James Daniel Kovarik, Scott Ryan Watry, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Publication number: 20100166160
    Abstract: A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or cannot be provided. In one disclosed embodiment, the Caller ID information must include a valid number of digits and a valid area code. If the Caller ID information is not valid, a calling party is prompted by an announcement to provide the audible caller identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, James Daniel Kovarik, Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye
  • Publication number: 20100111271
    Abstract: A system includes a switch responsive to a control module. The control module that determines whether an incoming telephone call from a telephone number to a telephone line is a facsimile call or a voice call and whether facsimile calls are authorized to be routed to the telephone line. When the incoming telephone call is a voice call, the control module instructs a switch to route the incoming telephone call to the telephone line. When the incoming telephone call is a voice call, the control module instructs the switch to route the incoming telephone call to the telephone line when facsimile calls are authorized, and to deny routing the incoming telephone call to the telephone line when facsimile calls are not authorized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Paul A. Raccio
  • Patent number: 7653184
    Abstract: Whether a facsimile transmission tone is within a call is detected before routing the call from a switch of a telephone network to a first telephone line. When the facsimile transmission tone is detected, whether an incoming facsimile transmission transmitted by the call is permitted to be routed to the first telephone line is determined based at least partially on restriction information. Routing of the call from the switch to the first telephone line is denied when the incoming facsimile transmission is not permitted to be routed to the first telephone line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Paul A. Raccio
  • Publication number: 20100016697
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for detecting and/or measuring in vivo interstitial biological activity, processes, and or compounds in human or animal subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MUSC Foundation for Research Developement
    Inventors: Francis G. Spinale, Robert Stroud, Michael Looper, Anne Deschamps
  • Publication number: 20090320603
    Abstract: A system (1) for the detection of defects in rails (12), the system comprising a source of ultrasonic waves for emitting ultrasonic waves onto a rail, a detector for detecting ultrasonic waves reflected or otherwise scattered by the rail or defects therein and a mist generator (3) arranged, in use, to expose one or both of the rail and source of ultrasonic wave to a mist of liquid thus enabling the formation of an ultrasound-transmissive interface between the rail and the source of ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: SPERRY RAIL (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Lye Crocker, Justin James Robert Stroud
  • Patent number: 7623638
    Abstract: A system and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information is invalid or can not be provided. In one disclosed embodiment, the Caller ID information must include a valid number of digits and a valid area code. If the Caller ID information is not valid, a calling party is prompted by an announcement to provide the audible caller identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, James Daniel Kovarik, Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye
  • Patent number: 7580513
    Abstract: Call logs are generated based upon calls from a subscriber line and calls to a subscriber line. The call logs are formatted from Generic Data Interface (GDI) messages into an email format (e.g., SMTP) within a call log gateway. The formatted email is then emailed to an email recipient, which can include a messaging service provider or the subscriber himself. The email address to the recipient is determined by the call log gateway based upon the subscriber's identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Carol Shifrin Gruchala, Richard John Ebel, Kenneth Robert Stroud, James M. Doherty, Larry B. Pearson
  • Patent number: 7529361
    Abstract: A system and method for numbering plan area (NPA) split processing is disclosed. In one implementation, a query is received during a permissive dialing period. The query comprises a destination location that is associated with a first NPA. It is determined whether a first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The first call processing record is associated with a destination location that is undergoing a NPA split. The first call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a first NPA. A second call processing record is then used for processing in place of the first call processing record when the first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The second call processing record is associated with the destination location that is undergoing an NPA split. The second call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a second NPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye, Laura Kay Culli
  • Patent number: 7505575
    Abstract: A method and system include routing telephone calls from multiple private networks via public lines and trunks in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) to a host switch, at which the connections would begin to run parallel. The host switch routes the telephone calls via a private trunk group to a private facility, such as an electronic tandem network (ETN) node or an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switch. If the private trunk group is full or unavailable, the host switch routes the telephone calls over alternate private or public trunk groups and selected carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold C. Fleischer, III, John E. Simino, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Patent number: 7450701
    Abstract: An advanced intelligent network (AIN) based system and method that allows a subscriber connected to the Internet to receive customized call alerts and caller identification information concerning an incoming telephone call. Using client software, the subscriber associates telephone numbers to sound files. Then, when an incoming call with caller identification information is received, the client software determines whether the incoming telephone number points to a sound file. If so, the client software directs the sound file to play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Susanne Marie Crockett, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, James Daniel Kovarik, Kenneth Robert Stroud, Dianna Inara Tiliks, William R. Trost, Paul H. Vlasek, Scott Ryan Watry, Thomas Joseph McBlain
  • Publication number: 20080219424
    Abstract: By manipulating parameters of call setup messages, calls made with a caller's access code in a caller preview service may be completed to the called party of voice mail box with caller identification information displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, Robert Stroud, Rick Cherye
  • Publication number: 20080187107
    Abstract: A system and method for numbering plan area (NPA) split processing is disclosed. In one implementation, a query is received during a permissive dialing period. The query comprises a destination location that is associated with a first NPA. It is determined whether a first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The first call processing record is associated with a destination location that is undergoing a NPA split. The first call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a first NPA. A second call processing record is then used for processing in place of the first call processing record when the first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The second call processing record is associated with the destination location that is undergoing an NPA split. The second call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a second NPA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye, Laura Kay Culli
  • Patent number: 7403603
    Abstract: A telecommunications service translates an abbreviated dialing code into a toll free number, routes the call to an interexchange carrier, and manages the billing associated with the call. A billing system processes the billing such that a subscriber of the abbreviated dialing code service is billed for the call rather than a calling party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignees: AT&T Services, Inc., AT&T Teleholdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Dianna Inara Tiliks, Carol Shifrin Gruchala, Susanne Marie Crockett, Nancy Ann Book, John Wesley Moss, Thomas Joseph McBlain, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, William M. Moy, Kenneth Robert Stroud
  • Publication number: 20080155005
    Abstract: A method for converting a first time and a first date in a first format to a second time in a second format includes determining a number of seconds that have elapsed between a predetermined date and a beginning of a current year of the first date. The method further includes adding to the determined number of seconds, a calculated number of seconds calculated from the beginning of the current year to a current month and a current day of the first date to obtain a first sum. The first sum varies based on whether the current month is within a leap year and is subsequent to a leap day of the leap year. A number of seconds that have elapsed between a beginning of the current day of the first date and the first time is added to the first sum. Lastly, a predetermined number of seconds is added to the first sum when Daylight Savings Time is in effect to obtain the second time in the second format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: AT&T KNOWLEDGE VENTURES, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert STROUD, Jeffrey Lewis BRANDT, Rick Anthony CHERYE
  • Patent number: 7388951
    Abstract: By manipulating parameters of call setup messages, calls made with a caller's access code in a caller preview service may be completed to the called party or voice mail box with caller identification information displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P.
    Inventors: John Wesley Moss, Robert Stroud, Rick Cherye
  • Patent number: 7372954
    Abstract: A system and method for numbering plan area (NPA) split processing is disclosed. In one implementation, a query is received during a permissive dialing period. The query comprises a destination location that is associated with a first NPA. It is determined whether a first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The first call processing record is associated with a destination location that is undergoing a NPA split. The first call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a first NPA. A second call processing record is then used for processing in place of the first call processing record when the first call processing record identifies a service that is NPA sensitive. The second call processing record is associated with the destination location that is undergoing an NPA split. The second call processing record is identified by the destination location and the destination location is associated with a second NPA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Robert Stroud, Rick Anthony Cherye, Laura Kay Culli