Patents by Inventor Sirpa Kuisma

Sirpa Kuisma 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).

  • Service control in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 6947535
    Abstract: The invention relates to service control in a telecommunications network which includes customer terminals (CT) and servers (SP) for offering services to the customers. The service is provided by transmitting information to the customer terminal, and the customer pays for the service by sending payment messages. To achieve a versatile control system for controlling the provision of the service, the system maintains a control parameter whose value is dependent (1) on the service price and on the moments of change in the service price, and (2) on the payments made and on the moments in time that the payments are made. The value of the control parameter is compared to a threshold (TT), and the provision of the service is stopped when the value of the control parameter has reached the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Ginzboorg, Sirpa Kuisma
  • Service control in a telecommunications network
    Publication number: 20020169712
    Abstract: The invention relates to service control in a telecommunications network which includes customer terminals (CT) and servers (SP) for offering services to the customers. The service is provided by transmitting information to the customer terminal, and the customer pays for the service by sending payment messages. To achieve a versatile control system for controlling the provision of the service, the system maintains a control parameter whose value is dependent (1) on the service price and on the moments of change in the service price, and (2) on the payments made and on the moments in time that the payments are made. The value of the control parameter is compared to a threshold (TT), and the provision of the service is stopped when the value of the control parameter has reached the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Applicant: Nokia Networks Oy
    Inventors: Philip Ginzboorg, Sirpa Kuisma