Patents by Inventor Thomas Michael Usery

Thomas Michael Usery 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).

  • Method and system for managing alarms in a communications network
    Patent number: 8041799
    Abstract: A system, method, and medium for routing alarms based within a telecommunications network is provided. Status indications (such as alarms or element problem notifications) are received and a determination is made as to whether the status indication has been processed. If it has not be processed, then a data field state is evaluated to determine a routing behavior rule. If the status indication is an updated occurrence (not new), then a corresponding prior event is identified within a data structure, notified, and the second occurrence is routed to one or more data engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Usery, Jonathan William Hermsmeyer, John Dexter Ceniza Omolon, Gary Scott Wiles
  • Method and system for automatically recognizing alarm patterns in a communications network
    Patent number: 7945817
    Abstract: A method and system for troubleshooting a communications network by recognizing one or more alarm patterns is provided. An incoming status indication (such as an alarm notification) associated with a network resource is received, whereby topological information associated with the network resource is referenced to identify parent(s) and sibling(s) of the network resource. A data structure is referenced to retrieve patterning criteria associated with the parent. The identified network resources are evaluated to determine whether the patterning criteria is met, and if so, then causing an alarm event, such as generation of a synthetic status indication, to be instantiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Usery, Jonathan William Hermsmeyer, Gary Scott Wiles
  • Method and system for selectively displaying alarms in a communications network
    Patent number: 7636424
    Abstract: A method and system for processing network trouble alerts is provided. A most important alert is presented, with the ability to view other status indications related to it. The method includes receiving a status indication, identifying a network resource associated with it, determining whether the resource is subordinate to another resource, which is associated with at least a second status indication, and if the resource is not subordinate another, then evaluating the status indication to determine if it should be presented to a user. If so, then automatically presenting the status indication to the user without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Sprint Comminications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Abhijith Halikhedkar, Jonathan William Hermsmeyer, Thomas Michael Usery, Gary Scott Wiles
  • Method and system for deduplicating status indications in a communications network
    Patent number: 7301448
    Abstract: A system, method, and medium for deduplicating multiple status indications within a telecommunications network is provided. A first and second instance of a status indication is received, and a determination is made as to whether the second instance is a duplicate of the first. If it is, it is not permitted to proceed to alarm status. Multiple alarm occurrences are represented as a single display item rather than separate alarms if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Usery, Jonathan William Hermsmeyer, Gary Scott Wiles