Patents by Inventor Siroos K. Afshar

Siroos K. Afshar 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: 20090191873
    Abstract: Disclosed are a networked-based device, method and computer-readable medium associated with an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for use in managing the registration of users at various devices. The method embodiment includes receiving a request for a registration action to change an IMS registration state associated with a contact location of the registration state, the request being received from a device that may be different from the contact location of the IMS registration state; and communicating data to and from the different device to implement the change in the IMS registration state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs
    Inventors: Steven A. SIEGEL, Siroos K. Afshar, Leopold Strahs
  • Publication number: 20090190573
    Abstract: Disclosed is a network-based device in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) that provides IMS services to terminating non-IP devices. The method embodiment includes receiving a REGISTER message that initiates registration of a Public User Identity (PUID) at a terminating non-IP device at a network-based device in an IMS, wherein the terminating non-IP device is specified as being at an E.164 routing address, establishing, in a network device that accepts communications regarding where to send sessions destined for a specific PUID and provide information regarding where to send sessions, the E.164 routing address as a final destination of sessions to the PUID based on the registration and an IP address of a network device that includes routing functionality based on telephone numbers as an immediate destination for the session and using this information from the registration to route to the terminating non-IP device after providing IMS services by using the relationship between the PUID, the E.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T
    Inventors: Steven A. SIEGEL, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, JR., Leopold Strahs, Maria Adamczyk
  • Publication number: 20090191869
    Abstract: Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer-readable medium for operating an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to provide registration review. The method embodiment includes tracking and storing all current registrations for each user in an IMS system, receiving a request from a user for a status of the user's current registrations and presenting, in response to the request, the current status of current registrations for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Leopold Strahs
  • Publication number: 20090191870
    Abstract: Disclosed are network-based device, method and computer readable medium associated with an IP Multimedia Subsystem for providing registration alerts in the IMS system. The method embodiment includes detecting a predetermined event associated with a registration state associated with all of a user's registrations in the IMS and transmitting a notification to a user which reports the occurrence of the predetermined event. The method may also include taking an action relative to the user's registration state in the IMS system based on the user interaction with the notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Leopold Strahs
  • Publication number: 20090191871
    Abstract: Disclosed are a network-based device, method and computer readable medium for operating an IMS to provide IMS services to originating sessions from a device upon which the user is not registered. The method includes receiving communication from a user on a device upon which the user is not registered at a 2-stage dialing server, authenticating the user, determining a Public User ID (PUID) for the user, receiving an identification of a called party from the user, arranging for IMS services to be provided to the user on the device, sending an INVITE signal from the 2-stage dialing server on behalf of the user PUID to the called party and setting up the media connection from the device to the device associated with the called party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AT&T Labs
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert V. Epley, Karen M. McCourt, Arnold Chester McQuaide, JR., Leopold Strahs
  • Publication number: 20090164556
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for managing a user persona presented in a communication session. In response to a request from an originating user for a communication session, a persona manager for the originating user is invoked, examining request details and the nature and context of the requested communication session and selecting a persona for the user, selection of the persona being employed to indicate services associated with the communication. Similarly, in response to a request from an originating user for a communication session, a persona manager for the receiving user to whom the request is directed examines details of the request and the nature and context of the communication session and makes decisions relating to persona selection for the receiving user. The decision may involve accepting a persona indicated in the originating user's request, or selecting a different persona and creating routing a request to be routed to the receiving user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Steven A. Siegel, Siroos K. Afshar
  • Patent number: 7509648
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new paradigm in Multimedia Services Creation Methodology, and new Service Creation and Service Execution Environments, based on this methodology. A service designer can access the Service Creation Environment via a Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI), to design new service in an automated way. The design process includes creation of the Service Logic Script (SLS), and associated databases that are used for storage of service and subscriber related data. The service developer (user) assembles Language Graphical Objects (LGO) into Service Logic Script. LGOs are part of a new graphical language that has been developed to meet multimedia service creation needs. They represent service control and call control primitive functions that have to be performed, in order to provide a multimedia service to service subscribers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: AT & T Corp.
    Inventors: Siroos K Afshar, Nancy Conley, Keith Kiser, William J. Leighton, III, Dinesh N Lokhande, Patricia E Mccrink, Shapour Neshatfar, Boguslaw J. Olszowy, Rajiv Patel, Sudhakar Rajamannar, Mark Szachara, Eberhard F Wunderlich
  • Publication number: 20090019352
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a new paradigm in Multimedia Services Creation Methodology, and new Service Creation and Service Execution Environments, based on this methodology. A service designer can access the Service Creation Environment via a Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI), to design new service in an automated way. The design process includes creation of the Service Logic Script (SLS), and associated databases that are used for storage of service and subscriber related data. The service developer (user) assembles Language Graphical Objects (LGO) into Service Logic Script. LGOs are part of a new graphical language that has been developed to meet multimedia service creation needs. They represent service control and call control primitive functions that have to be performed, in order to provide a multimedia service to service subscribers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Siroos K. Afshar, Nancy Conley, Keith Kiser, William J. Leighton, III, Dinesh N. Lokhande, Patricia E. McCrink, Shapour Neshatfar, Boguslaw J. Olszowy, Rajiv Patel, Sudhakar Rajamannar, Mark Szachara, Eberhard F. Wunderlich
  • Patent number: 4734854
    Abstract: A system has been devised that allows commonly used software components to be designed and developed only once, and reused many times in different applications with different operational contexts and requirements. The system includes a language for the specification of software components in a context-independent generic fashion, a compiler for the specification language and a program for generating concrete software components to work in a specific context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignees: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Information Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Siroos K. Afshar