Patents by Inventor Robert W. Stephens

Robert W. Stephens 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).

  • Patent number: 7180888
    Abstract: A queue server is established in a packet telephony environment, wherein the queue server is defined as a callable entity, separate from the H.323 workstation for which it is being used. The queue may be used with any piece of H.323 software without modification to the software. All that need be done is the configuration that is typically accomplished when H.323 software is installed on the workstation. For example, the queue may be identified as a callable entity to receive call forwarding from the busy device or endpoint. The H.323 software of the endpoint needs to be able to handle only one call at a time, thereby reducing memory requirements for the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Crouch, Markku Korpi, Robert W. Stephens
  • Patent number: 6449260
    Abstract: An automatic call distribution system utilizes a number of H.323 compatible devices. An automatic call distribution (ACD) server (52) interfaces with a computer telephony interface gateway (54) to route calls to agents or to a music/video server (56). Calls are received by a gateway and supplied to a gatekeeper that determines an IP address of the destination. The ACD server selects the destination in response to the number of agents available. In addition, customer calls can be received via e-mail, facsimile or the Internet. The call distribution system can instruct an agent to return an e-mail or facsimile message or to call a customer if desired. Calls from one H.323 device can be routed to another H.323 device by a third party application by sending a call control message to the device's application program interface that executes the message as if it were generated at the device itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sassin, Markku Korpi, Richard W. Crouch, Leon Xu, Uwe Wrede, Robert W. Stephens
  • Patent number: 5135031
    Abstract: A rotary hydraulic machine which includes a housing having a shaft mounted for rotation within the housing about a shaft axis. A cylinder block is coupled to the shaft for co-rotation with the shaft within the housing and includes a plurality of cylinders disposed in a circumferential array parallel to and surrounding the shaft axis. A piston is disposed to reciprocate within each of the cylinders and is coupled to a yoke for determining displacement of the pistons within the cylinders. A valve plate is mounted on a valve block and includes kidney-shaped slots for registering with the cylinders as the cylinder block rotates, and thereby connecting the cylinders to pump input and output ports. A microprocessor-based controller is externally mounted on the pump valve block and includes internal memory having various remotely-selectable control programs prestored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Vickers, Incorporated
    Inventors: Roy T. Burgess, Rajamouli Gunda, Frank Herta, Robert C. Hodges, James A. Kessler, Richard S. Leemhuis, Michael R. McCarty, Robert W. Stephens
  • Patent number: 5073091
    Abstract: A rotary hydraulic machine which includes a housing having a shaft mounted for rotation within the housing about a shaft axis. A cylidner block is coupled to the shaft for co-rotation with the shaft within the housing and includes a plurality of cylinders disposed in a circumferential array parallel to and surrounding the shaft axis. A piston is disposed to reciprocate within each of the cylinders and is coupled to a yoke for determining displacement of the pistons within the cylinders. A valve plate is mounted on a valve block and includes kidney-shaped slots for registering with the cylinders as the cylinder block rotates, and thereby connecting the cylinders to pump input and output ports. A microprocessor-based controller is externally mounted on the pump valve block and includes internal memory having various remotely-selectable control programs prestored therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Vickers, Incorporated
    Inventors: Roy T. Burgess, Rajamouli Gunda, Frank Herta, Robert C. Hodges, James A. Kessler, Richard S. Leemhuis, Michael R. McCarty, Robert W. Stephens