Thomas C Strom

US Patent:

6366660, Apr 2, 2002

Filed:

Jun 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/342499

Inventors:

Robert John Baiyor - Naperville IL
Deborah Thomas Earl - Naperville IL
Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 342

US Classification:

37921101, 37920201, 37921102, 37921103, 37921104

Abstract:

A system, apparatus and method are disclosed which provide variable alerting patterns for multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for providing concurrent alerting, sequential alerting, pyramid alerting or cascade alerting, of outgoing call legs for a flexible alerting service. The preferred system includes a home location register coupled to a mobile switching center. The home location register has, stored in a memory, a plurality of secondary directory numbers associated with a primary directory number, such as an ANSI compatible pilot directory number, and for each secondary directory number of the plurality of secondary directory numbers, further stored in the memory a corresponding timing delay parameter, a corresponding no answer time parameter, and a corresponding no answer termination trigger. Variation of the various corresponding timing delay parameters and no answer time parameters produces the variable alerting patterns. The mobile switching center has an interface for receiving an incoming call leg designating the primary directory number and for differentially processing and routing each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number, of the plurality of secondary directory numbers, according to its corresponding timing delay parameter, to form a plurality of outgoing call legs; and unless an outgoing call leg of the plurality of outgoing legs has been answered, for alerting each outgoing call leg for a time period of its corresponding no answer time parameter and, upon an expiration of the time period, for treating each outgoing call leg according to its corresponding no answer termination trigger.

US Patent:

6445915, Sep 3, 2002

Filed:

Jul 9, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/350439

Inventors:

Robert John Baiyor - Naperville IL
Deborah Thomas Earl - Naperville IL
Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 342

US Classification:

455416, 455417, 455445, 455519, 379202, 37921101

Abstract:

An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing variable termination and alerting patterns, based upon call progress information, for multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for flexible alerting. The preferred wireless system embodiment includes a home location register (HLR) and a mobile switching center (MSC). The HLR stores a plurality of secondary directory numbers(with corresponding routing parameters) associated with a pilot directory number. The MSC differentially processes and routes each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number, to form a plurality of outgoing call legs. As the various outgoing call legs may be answered, not answered, released, have routing failures, or return busy signals, the MSC generates, and transmits to the HLR, corresponding call progress and status information. Based upon such information, the HLR may dynamically vary the termination and alerting patterns for outgoing call legs corresponding to the secondary directory numbers. When the call progress and status information indicates a misrouting of an outgoing call leg of the plurality of outgoing call legs, the HLR has instructions to delete a secondary directory number corresponding to the misrouted outgoing call leg from the first plurality of secondary directory numbers, which will create a different termination pattern for the next session.

US Patent:

6574325, Jun 3, 2003

Filed:

Jul 9, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/350577

Inventors:

Robert John Baiyor - Naperville IL
Deborah Thomas Earl - Naperville IL
Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 342

US Classification:

37921101, 37921102, 37921103, 37921104

Abstract:

An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for providing call progress and status information for multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for flexible alerting, for intelligent network services. The preferred wireless system embodiment includes a home location register and a mobile switching center. The home location register stores a plurality of secondary directory numbers associated with a pilot directory number. The mobile switching center differentially processes and routes each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number, to form a plurality of outgoing call legs. As the various outgoing call legs may be answered, not answered, released, have routing failures, or return busy signals, the mobile switching center generates corresponding call progress and status information. In the preferred embodiment, such call progress and status information includes parameters, for each outgoing call leg, such as time to answer, answer reason, no answer reason, busy reason, page response reason, no page response reason, and routing failure reason. The mobile switching center transmits the call progress and status information to the home location register, for subsequent dynamic utilization in providing intelligent network services, preferably utilizing a modified, ANSI-41 compatible information directive.

US Patent:

6714636, Mar 30, 2004

Filed:

Sep 24, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/404901

Inventors:

Robert John Baiyor - Naperville IL
Deborah Thomas Earl - Naperville IL
Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 342

US Classification:

37921104, 37921102, 45545601, 45545603

Abstract:

A system, apparatus and method are provided for subscriber control of timed and regional membership in multiple member termination groups for multiple leg telecommunication sessions, such as for providing outgoing call legs for a flexible alerting service, to different groups of members, at different times of day or different geographic locations. The preferred system includes a home location register coupled to a mobile switching center. The home location register has, stored in a memory, a plurality of secondary directory numbers associated with a primary directory number, and includes instructions to determine whether each secondary directory number, of the plurality of secondary directory numbers, is currently incorporated within a selected alerting group based upon a predefined time period parameter or a geographic location parameter for a mobile unit corresponding to the secondary directory number. The mobile switching center has an interface for receiving an incoming call leg designating the primary directory number and for differentially processing and routing each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number currently incorporated within the selected alerting group.

US Patent:

6996221, Feb 7, 2006

Filed:

Dec 7, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/455623

Inventors:

Robert John Baiyor - Naperville IL, US
Giacomo Bellomo - Morris Township NJ, US
Deborah Thomas Earl - Naperville IL, US
Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL, US

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 3/42

US Classification:

37920201, 37920501, 37920601

Abstract:

The system, apparatus and method of the present invention provide telecommunication conferencing services in a multiple leg telecommunication session. One of the system embodiments includes a database and a switching center. The database has stored in a memory a plurality of secondary directory numbers and a conference parameter associated with a primary directory number. The switching center has an interface for receiving an incoming call leg designating the primary directory number and for determining whether the primary directory number and its associated plurality of secondary directory numbers are configured for a conference mode. When so configured for the conference mode, the switching center includes further instructions to process and route each outgoing call leg associated with each secondary directory number of the plurality of secondary directory numbers to form a plurality of outgoing call legs, to monitor answering of the plurality of outgoing call legs, and to connect an answered outgoing call leg, of the plurality of outgoing call legs, to the incoming call leg for a multiple leg telecommunication conferencing session.

US Patent:

20040242241, Dec 2, 2004

Filed:

May 30, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/449040

Inventors:

Thomas Strom - Naperville IL, US
Harinath Rachapalli - Woodridge IL, US

International Classification:

H04M003/42

US Classification:

455/456300, 455/456100, 455/415000

Abstract:

A system and method of providing wireless calling party location information during call set-up is provided. The method includes determining whether previously collected calling party location information is current and transmitting the previously collected calling party location information when the previously collected calling party location information is current. The method also includes collecting fresh calling party location information and transmitting the fresh calling party location information when the previously collected calling party location information is not current.

US Patent:

20090279543, Nov 12, 2009

Filed:

May 6, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/116015

Inventors:

Thomas D. Strom - Naperville IL, US
Suresh Kumar - Naperville IL, US
Michael W. Delafchell - Warrenville IL, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/56

US Classification:

370389

Abstract:

The presently described embodiments relate to a method for handling data sessions performed using tethered user devices in a network. The presently described embodiments are directed to network functionality to receive a tethered device indicator by a network element. The tethered device indicator, in at least one form, originates from a request from a user device. The indicator is then detected by the network and, based on the indicator, a variety of functions may be performed. For example, a network element may determine that a data session is not proper and, therefore, reject the data session that is requested by the user device. Alternatively, the network element may determine that the data session request is proper. In this case, the data session will be managed based on the indicator.

US Patent:

61119431, Aug 29, 2000

Filed:

Sep 29, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/162813

Inventors:

Thomas Dale Strom - Naperville IL
Jane Ann Thompson - Batavia IL
Robin Jeffrey Thompson - Batavia IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 342

US Classification:

379211

Abstract:

Apparatus and a method for setting up a telecommunications call, wherein more than one candidate terminating station is alerted, and a connection is established from a calling station to the first of the candidate terminating stations which answer an alert. In one preferred embodiment, an executive processor complex assigns ports and processes in a call processing complex. An incoming process is assigned for the port which receives the call, and the plurality of outgoing processes are assigned to ports for accessing candidate terminating stations. The incoming port process has a list of the outgoing terminating port processes for the incoming call, and each outgoing process stores the identity of the incoming process. When an outgoing process receives an answer indication, it communicates directly with the incoming process, bypassing any communications with the executive processor complex. The incoming terminating process will establish a connection between the incoming port and the outgoing port that received the first answer indication, and will abandon connections from all of the other outgoing ports for this call.