Patents by Inventor William E. Welnick

William E. Welnick 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: 20040209593
    Abstract: Methods in communications devices and networks for reducing an infrastructure registration race condition. In one embodiment, a communications device transmits (310) a first network connection request is a first network, and after waiting a specified time interval, the communication device transmits (320) another network connection request to the first network. The communications device may determine the time interval, or it may be received (302) from the network. Alternatively, a time stamp or some other indicium is applied to the connection requests transmitted by the communications device so that a home location register or other entity may determine the order in which the requests were transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: William P. Alberth, Brian D. Storm, William E. Welnick, David J. Krause