Patents by Inventor Steve Michael Armstrong

Steve Michael Armstrong 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).

  • DISTRIBUTED SERVICE NETWORK SYSTEM CAPABLE OF TRANSPARENTLY CONVERTING DATA FORMATS AND SELECTIVELY CONNECTING TO AN APPROPRIATE BRIDGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLIENTS CHARACTERISTICS IDENTIFIED DURING PRELIMINARY CONNECTIONS
    Patent number: 6351771
    Abstract: A distributed service network provides telecommunications and other services to users transparently of where the user accesses the network and the particular client used to access the network. The network comprises a plurality of regions, each comprising a region manager and one or more region servers. A personal agent is defined for each user and is replicated to remote regions in the network from the user's home region as the user connects through those remote regions. The personal agent stores user information including services to which the user is subscribed and preferences set by the user. The region servers include a set of transducers which operate to make services transparent to the actual client used to connect to the network and to the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Arthur Julian Patterson Craddock, Ramzan A. Khuwaja, Steve Michael Armstrong