Patents by Inventor Stephen Paul Brennan

Stephen Paul Brennan 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: 8340262
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for routing telephone calls within a household. In the disclosed home call routing system, a head of the household or other person with administrative authority within the home can control the routing of telephone calls by establishing and modifying call system parameters such as call priorities, traffic times, caller identities, routing rules, etc. through a home computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Services Corp.
    Inventors: Gregory Wayne Cermak, Bernadette Anita Nelson, Sandra Kelly Teare, Alex Tserkovny, John Herman Wurster, Douglas Reynold Jones, Linda Louise Witham, Stephen Paul Brennan, Premkumar Natarajan, Anne M. Kraus-Keenan, Elizabeth I. Van Horn
  • Patent number: 7076047
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for determining the carrier that should be used for a particular AIN call. The following information is derived for each call: the originating calling party number, the terminating called party number, the originating LATA, the terminating LATA. Using these components, pre-defined tables are accessed that contain local calling plan information. These tables contain rate center and dial plan information that provides the local calling scope that is available to the originator of the call. Based on the information contained in the tables, the appropriate type of carrier for the call is selected and the call is routed using this carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Paul Brennan, James Ralph Bradford
  • Patent number: 6628765
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing customers with telecommunications intelligence in the form of call management reports. When a call is made to a subscriber of the service provided herein, a call detail record is created using the Telephone Company's Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN). Each call that is made to the customer is processed using AIN service logic programs (SLPs). The SLP is invoked by an AIN trigger that is applied to the track telephone number(s) of the customers that subscribe to this service. For each inbound call, the SLP records several pieces of identifying information in a call detail record. Periodically, the AIN application accumulates the call detail records for all customers subscribing to the service. The information is processed to retrieve the desired data from the call detail records, and the data retrieved is used to develop call management reports for each subscriber of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Alan Bangs, Stephen Paul Brennan