Patents by Inventor William T. Stelle

William T. Stelle 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).

  • Patent number: 9003033
    Abstract: Among other things, there are disclosed structures, systems and methods for monitoring and regulating access by consumers to computer network bandwidth, particularly with regard to peer-to-peer file sharing. A router (in certain embodiments, a core router) is programmed with a predetermined number of open or open and active internet protocol (IP) sessions a particular computer is allowed. Requests to open sessions that do not exceed that number are permitted. Requests to open sessions that exceed that number may be rejected, or an offer obtain additional session(s), perhaps with additional payment, may be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Sweeney, Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, William T. Stelle
  • Patent number: 8982798
    Abstract: A router is operatively coupled to a plurality of local computers and has one or more connections to a remote computer network for managing one or more data routes between the local computers and the remote computer network. In providing dynamic access to the remote computer network by any of the local computers, one or more of the connection(s) of the router to the remote computer network includes one or more wireless connections independent of the router between the local computers and the remote computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: William T. Stelle, Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20140133405
    Abstract: A router is operatively coupled to a plurality of local computers and has one or more connections to a remote computer network for managing one or more data routes between the local computers and the remote computer network. In providing dynamic access to the remote computer network by any of the local computers, one or more of the connection(s) of the router to the remote computer network includes one or more wireless connections independent of the router between the local computers and the remote computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: William T. Stelle, Kelsyn D.S. Rooks, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Patent number: 8719414
    Abstract: A router has one or more wired connections to a remote computer network and one or more wireless connections to the remote computer network for managing a plurality of data routes between computers of a local area network and the remote computer network. In optimizing multi-broadband sources for the local computer network, the router determines an aggregate bandwidth of the data routes and segregates the aggregate bandwidth into two or more independent bandwidth routes for selective allocation of one of the bandwidth routes to each data exchange between the local computer network and the remote computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, William T. Stelle, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Patent number: 8665783
    Abstract: A router is operatively coupled to a plurality of local computers and has one or more connections to a remote computer network for managing one or more data routes between the local computers and the remote computer network. In providing dynamic access to the remote computer network by any of the local computers, one or more of the connection(s) of the router to the remote computer network includes one or more wireless connections independent of the router between the local computers and the remote computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: William T. Stelle, Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20100306367
    Abstract: Among other things, there are disclosed structures, systems and methods for monitoring and regulating access by consumers to computer network bandwidth, particularly with regard to peer-to-peer file sharing. A router (in certain embodiments, a core router) is programmed with a predetermined number of open or open and active internet protocol (IP) sessions a particular computer is allowed. Requests to open sessions that do not exceed that number are permitted. Requests to open sessions that exceed that number may be rejected, or an offer obtain additional session(s), perhaps with additional payment, may be made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Sweeney, Kelsyn D.S. Rooks, William T. Stelle
  • Publication number: 20100296437
    Abstract: A router is operatively coupled to a plurality of local computers and has one or more connections to a remote computer network for managing one or more data routes between the local computers and the remote computer network. In providing dynamic access to the remote computer network by any of the local computers, one or more of the connection(s) of the router to the remote computer network includes one or more wireless connections independent of the router between the local computers and the remote computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: William T. Stelle, Kelsyn D.S. Rooks, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20100293277
    Abstract: A router has one or more wired connections to a remote computer network and one or more wireless connections to the remote computer network for managing a plurality of data routes between computers of a local area network and the remote computer network. In optimizing multi-broadband sources for the local computer network, the router determines an aggregate bandwidth of the data routes and segregates the aggregate bandwidth into two or more independent bandwidth routes for selective allocation of one of the bandwidth routes to each data exchange between the local computer network and the remote computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, William T. Stelle, Jeffrey M. Sweeney
  • Publication number: 20090164920
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for inserting a virtual toolbar into a markup language document includes receiving a request for the markup language document from a user device, forwarding the request to a server, receiving the markup language document from the server, and inserting a virtual toolbar into the markup language document to produce a virtual toolbar embedded markup language document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: Embarq Holdings Company LLC
    Inventor: William T. Stelle