Patents by Inventor William Bowling

William Bowling 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).

  • Apparatus and method for facilitating service management of communications services in a communications network
    Patent number: 8139742
    Abstract: A service order management system provisions service orders in a communications network having multiple network elements. The service order management system includes an order manager and an interface. The order manager, which receives requests representative of service orders for at least one communications service from dissimilar service order sources, includes an input process and an output process which determine, at least in part, service implementing information provided to the network elements to implement the at least one communications service. The interface is configured to interface the service order management system with the dissimilar service order sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy Klos, Terry Gilmore, Gary Martens, Sue Merz, Terry Vieth, William Bowling, Mark Sexton, John Vallely, Mary Clark, Randall Leet