Patents by Inventor Shawn M. Draper

Shawn M. Draper 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: 8565408
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for more specifically routing a communications request in an environment where an intermediary facilitates the request. The method includes retrieving a set of preferences associated with an initiator of the request, retrieving profile data related to multiple facilitators who may respond to the communications request, and selecting a specific facilitator based on the set of preferences and profile data. The system includes a preferences database for storing information related to calling preferences of a caller; a profiles database for storing a set of attributes associated with a plurality of agents who facilitate calls between parties; and a set of embodied computer-useable instructions for referencing the preferences database and the profiles database incident to receiving the communications request to designate an order to one or more of agents to satisfy the communications request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Larry Keith Bruening, Shawn M. Draper
  • Patent number: 7899177
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for more specifically routing a communications request in an environment where an intermediary facilitates the request. The method includes retrieving a set of preferences associated with an initiator of the request, retrieving profile data related to multiple facilitators who may respond to the communications request, and selecting a specific facilitator based on the set of preferences and profile data. The system includes a preferences database for storing information related to calling preferences of a caller; a profiles database for storing a set of attributes associated with a plurality of agents who facilitate calls between parties; and a set of embodied computer-useable instructions for referencing the preferences database and the profiles database incident to receiving the communications request to designate an order to one or more of agents to satisfy the communications request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Larry Keith Bruening, Shawn M. Draper
  • Patent number: 7783030
    Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for creating and modifying how communications requests are routed in a communications network. The method includes displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a canvas and a set of geometric shapes that correspond programmatic code segments. As geometric shapes are added to the canvas, code segments are automatically generated depending on the relationship ad arrangement of the shapes. The code segments form a call-routing script, which dictates how physical communications requests are routed. The system includes a route script execution engine (RSEE), a set of route scripts to be processed by the RSEE and to dictate call routing paths, and a graphical route-scripting interface (which includes an arrangement of graphical objects that correspond to a programmatic composition of the route scripts).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Larry Keith Bruening, Shawn M. Draper