Patents by Inventor Rodney Christopher Hall

Rodney Christopher Hall 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).

  • Operational support structure for a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 5640505
    Abstract: A support structure for an operational telecommunications network deploys a set of individual technologies and provides a set of services to customers. The support structure is divided into a set of domains each of which provides a particular management function for the network. These domains include a domain for managing customer handling functions, a domain for managing the network, a domain for managing the individual technologies deployed in the network, a domain for managing instances of the individual services provided by the network, a domain for managing billing operations, a domain for managing the services provided by the network when grouped together to form a portfolio, and a domain for managing jobs performed by the human workforce for the network. Each domain has its own set of databases and systems for performing the required management operations and also interfaces to some of the other domains. Each domain is implemented by one or more tightly integrated computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Richard Samuel Edwin Hearn, Robert Charles Bell, Rodney Christopher Hall, Barry Sidney Farr, Stephen John Harris, Colin Grantham, Catherine Spence, Terry Fellows, Michael James Spooner, Michael William Day, Nicholas John Furley, Michael John Evans, Stephen Raymond Wells, Alan Dance, Ian Bryan Taylor, Eric Jenkin Williams, Philip Stephen Jones, Gerard Morrow, Stephen Andrew M. Wilson, John Allan Mountford, Simon Magnus Pyzer, Alistair John Lumpkin