Patents by Inventor Stephen Vansaders

Stephen Vansaders 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: 9560180
    Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP) telephony system terminates calls to certain groups of telephone numbers via multiple different telephony carriers. The IP telephony system will discontinue using a telephony carrier to terminate calls if the quality provided by the carrier falls below a threshold level. The IP telephony system includes a quality monitoring unit that determines when a particular group of telephone numbers are intrinsically impaired, such that no carrier could provide high quality when terminating calls to those numbers. In these circumstances, the IP telephony system adjusts the quality threshold to which a carrier's quality is compared when completing calls to the impaired numbers to account for the intrinsic impairment of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Vonage Business Inc.
    Inventors: Casem Majd, Stephen Vansaders, Gopala Rao, Nirav J. Kadakia, Andrew Bucko
  • Patent number: 9210225
    Abstract: A method of dynamic server assignment in a VoIP network includes detecting a telecommunication device on the VoIP network and querying a geo-location server for geographic information related to the telecommunication device's location and receiving the geographic information. Based on the geographic information a server assignment is determined. A configuration file for the telecommunication device including the server assignment and location is created and the configuration is provided to the telecommunication device over the network. The configuration file may also include features related to local customs or practice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Vonage Network LLC
    Inventors: Nirav Kadakia, Andrew Bucko, Stephen Vansaders, Nilesh Shah
  • Patent number: 8804558
    Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP) telephony system terminates calls to certain groups of telephone numbers via multiple different telephony carriers. The IP telephony system will discontinue using a telephony carrier to terminate calls if the quality provided by the carrier falls below a threshold level. The IP telephony system includes a quality monitoring unit that determines when a particular group of telephone numbers are intrinsically impaired, such that no carrier could provide high quality when terminating calls to those numbers. In these circumstances, the IP telephony system adjusts the quality threshold to which a carrier's quality is compared when completing calls to the impaired numbers to account for the intrinsic impairment of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Vonage Network, LLC.
    Inventors: Casem Majd, Stephen Vansaders, Gopala Rao, Nirav Kadakia, Andrew Bucko
  • Publication number: 20130163452
    Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP) telephony system terminates calls to certain groups of telephone numbers via multiple different telephony carriers. The IP telephony system will discontinue using a telephony carrier to terminate calls if the quality provided by the carrier falls below a threshold level. The IP telephony system includes a quality monitoring unit that determines when a particular group of telephone numbers are intrinsically impaired, such that no carrier could provide high quality when terminating calls to those numbers. In these circumstances, the IP telephony system adjusts the quality threshold to which a carrier's quality is compared when completing calls to the impaired numbers to account for the intrinsic impairment of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Casem MAJD, Stephen Vansaders, Gopala Rao, Nirav J. Kadakia, Andrew Bucko
  • Publication number: 20130163730
    Abstract: An Internet protocol (IP) telephony system terminates calls to certain groups of telephone numbers via multiple different telephony carriers. The IP telephony system will discontinue using a telephony carrier to terminate calls if the quality provided by the carrier falls below a threshold level. The IP telephony system includes a quality monitoring unit that determines when a particular group of telephone numbers are intrinsically impaired, such that no carrier could provide high quality when terminating calls to those numbers. In these circumstances, the IP telephony system adjusts the quality threshold to which a carrier's quality is compared when completing calls to the impaired numbers to account for the intrinsic impairment of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Casem MAJD, Stephen Vansaders, Gopala Rao, Nirav J. Kadakia, Andrew Bucko
  • Publication number: 20130163581
    Abstract: A system for establishing Internet protocol based telephony communications between a calling telephony device and a called telephony device includes multiple logical elements that help to setup and carry the telephony communication. Multiple ones of the logical elements create call detail records that contain data about the telephony communication. Information contained in the call detail records is used to determine which call detail records relate to the same telephony communication. Once the call detail records relating to the same telephony communication are identified, a global identification number can be written into each of the call detail records to tie them together, or information drawn from the multiple call detail records can be used to create a single consolidated call detail record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Casem Majd, Paul Beyer, Andrew Bucko, Rohan Dwarkha, Nirav J. Kadakia, Stephen Vansaders
  • Publication number: 20130107752
    Abstract: A method of dynamic server assignment in a VoIP network includes detecting a telecommunication device on the VoIP network and querying a geo-location server for geographic information related to the telecommunication device's location and receiving the geographic information. Based on the geographic information a server assignment is determined. A configuration file for the telecommunication device including the server assignment and location is created and the configuration is provided to the telecommunication device over the network. The configuration file may also include features related to local customs or practice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Vonage Network LLC
    Inventors: Nirav Kadakia, Andrew Bucko, Stephen Vansaders, Nilesh Shah