Patents by Inventor Stephen Ray Ballard

Stephen Ray Ballard 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).

  • Geographic redundancy at session border controllers based on host name schemes
    Patent number: 8432905
    Abstract: A method including provisioning geographically redundant network devices with a shared host name or provisioning each of geographically redundant network devices with multiple host names in correspondence to each geographically redundant network device, wherein one of the multiple host names include a primary host name associated with one of the geographically redundant network devices and one or more secondary host names associated with the other geographically redundant network devices; receiving one or more packets; inspecting one or more headers associated with the one or more packets; determining a host name based on the one or more headers inspected; rewriting the one or more headers to include the shared host name or one of the multiple host names; and forwarding the one or more packets to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Ray Ballard
  • GEOGRAPHIC REDUNDANCY AT SESSION BORDER CONTROLLERS BASED ON HOST NAME SCHEMES
    Publication number: 20110216767
    Abstract: A method including provisioning geographically redundant network devices with a shared host name or provisioning each of geographically redundant network devices with multiple host names in correspondence to each geographically redundant network device, wherein one of the multiple host names include a primary host name associated with one of the geographically redundant network devices and one or more secondary host names associated with the other geographically redundant network devices; receiving one or more packets; inspecting one or more headers associated with the one or more packets; determining a host name based on the one or more headers inspected; rewriting the one or more headers to include the shared host name or one of the multiple host names; and forwarding the one or more packets to another device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Ray Ballard