Patents by Inventor Walter Scott Tester

Walter Scott Tester 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).

  • Publication number: 20130005363
    Abstract: A predictive notification system identifies certain mobile devices in a wireless telecommunications network that are likely to be within a predetermined geographical area of interest during a predetermined period of time. The identified location/time pair may be one that is associated with or affected by a particular event (e.g., emergency, construction, disaster, traffic, weather or other alerts and events). This allows a notification (about the event) to be sent to the identified mobile devices in an effort to notify them of the event prior to entering the affected area. A trending profile generated and maintained for each mobile device in the network is examined/consulted to determine the identity of those mobile devices that are likely to be within the affected area during the relevant time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Walter Scott Tester
  • Patent number: 8284675
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for call quality troubleshooting and mitigation may include polling network communication path elements to determine network performance data, receiving a call quality alert from at least one communication unit, the call quality alert indicating degraded call quality of a call session, and analyzing the network performance data from the network communication path elements and the at least one communication unit to determine a cause of the alert and at least one action to mitigate the cause of the alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, L.P.
    Inventors: Zubair Ansari, Walter Scott Tester, Amy Pendleton, Ravishankar Palaparthi, Jenny Li, Parama Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20100159871
    Abstract: A predictive notification system identifies certain mobile devices in a wireless telecommunications network that are likely to be within a predetermined geographical area of interest during a predetermined period of time. The identified location/time pair may be one that is associated with or affected by a particular event (e.g., emergency, construction, disaster, traffic, weather or other alerts and events). This allows a notification (about the event) to be sent to the identified mobile devices in an effort to notify them of the event prior to entering the affected area. A trending profile generated and maintained for each mobile device in the network is examined/consulted to determine the identity of those mobile devices that are likely to be within the affected area during the relevant time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventor: Walter Scott Tester
  • Publication number: 20080037443
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for call quality troubleshooting and mitigation may include polling network communication path elements to determine network performance data, receiving a call quality alert from at least one communication unit, the call quality alert indicating degraded call quality of a call session, and analyzing the network performance data from the network communication path elements and the at least one communication unit to determine a cause of the alert and at least one action to mitigate the cause of the alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Zubair Ansari, Walter Scott Tester, Amy Pendleton, Ravishankar Palaparthi, Jenny Li, Parama Ghosh