Nancy K Schmidt

7327721, Feb 5, 2008

Aug 26, 2002

10/227970

Mehmet Balasaygun - Ocean NJ, US
Charles Bertsch - Howell NJ, US
Anthony P. Frissora - Fair Haven NJ, US
Robert Reagan Gilman - Broomfield CO, US
Brijesh Mandan - Fords NJ, US
Nancy Kathryn Schmidt - Broomfield CO, US

Avaya Technology Corp. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 12/66

370352, 370401

Techniques for determination of endpoint Internet Protocol (IP) address assignment in an Internet telephony system are disclosed. In conjunction with the establishment of a voice path between an endpoint and a gatekeeper in the Internet telephony system, a virtual address assigned to the endpoint in a network address translation operation is determined. The virtual address is then communicated to the endpoint as part of or otherwise in conjunction with a registration process prior to establishment of the voice path such that the registration process can complete successfully despite the network address translation operation. Advantageously, the invention overcomes problems associated with voice path registration failures resulting from network address translation in a router, virtual private network (VPN) gateway or other similar network address translation device.

7668100, Feb 23, 2010

Jun 28, 2005

11/170659

Mehmet C. Balasaygun - Freehold NJ, US
Frank John Boyle - Broomfield CO, US
Scott E. Hendrick - Broomfield CO, US
Renee F. Krahn - Superior CO, US
Manish Marwah - Boulder CO, US
Sung H. Moon - Thornton CO, US
Nancy Kathryn Schmidt - Broomfield CO, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 1/00

370235, 37039521, 370401

The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channel when resources are available or otherwise based on need.

8089872, Jan 3, 2012

Aug 29, 2008

12/201383

Mehmet C. Balasaygun - Freehold NJ, US
Frank John Boyle - Broomfield CO, US
Scott E. Hendrick - Broomfield CO, US
Renee F. Krahn - Superior CO, US
Manish Marwah - Boulder CO, US
Sung H. Moon - Thornton CO, US
Nancy Kathryn Schmidt - Broomfield CO, US

Avaya Inc. - Basking Ridge NJ

H04L 1/00

370230, 3703952

The present invention is directed to load balancing call signaling channels at the times that they are established, the use of variable frequency keep alive mechanisms depending on the state of the call signaling channel, and the establishment of a call signaling channel when resources are available or otherwise based on need.

20100278039, Nov 4, 2010

Sep 15, 2009

12/560144

Charles Farwell - Denver CO, US
Don Gillespie - Boulder CO, US
Cliff Grimes - Morrison CO, US
Scott Hendrick - Broomfield CO, US
Won Huh - Broomfield CO, US
Tim Kaye - Lakewood CO, US
Robert Mitchell - Aberdeen NJ, US
Ted Morrow - Golden CO, US
Tamara Jo Noirot - Louisville CO, US
Nancy Schmidt - Broomfield CO, US
Rick Windhausen - Boulder CO, US

AVAYA INC. - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 11/00

370221

The present disclosure is directed to a method and system to forcibly unregister and/or prevent registration of a gateway and/or other endpoint in a network region in response to a survivable gatekeeper servicing the network region becoming active.

20120311155, Dec 6, 2012

Jun 1, 2011

13/151042

Nancy K. Schmidt - Broomfield CO, US
William T. Walker - Evergreen CO, US

AVAYA INC. - Basking Ridge NJ

G06F 15/173

709226, 709223

Methods and systems for allocating licenses to devices are provided. More particularly, the devices included in a system may each require a license having a release value that is equal to or greater than the release value of the device in order to be fully operational. Upon the unregistration of a device, the highest cost or value license that can be made available while maintaining proper registration of the remaining registered devices is freed. More particularly, the difference between the number of devices registered and the licenses used is calculated for each release value. A variance for each release value, beginning with the least cost or lowest release value license and working towards the highest cost or value license is then calculated. The highest cost license that can be released is equal to the license value for which the calculated variance is equal to zero.

54043956, Apr 4, 1995

Feb 24, 1992

7/841313

Frank J. Bogart - Boulder CO
Bruce D. Butterfield - Broomfield CO
David L. Chavez - Northglenn CO
Henry C. Dittmer - Westminster CO
Frederick R. Fix - Arvada CO
Larry J. Hardouin - Westminster CO
Nancy K. Schmidt - Broomfield CO
Linda L. Thomson - Westminster CO

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 342
H04M 1104
H04M 300
G06F 1538

379201

External invocation of features on a switching system (10) from a network (18) is made possible by aliasing otherwise-unused network numbers that are assigned to the switching system within the network numbering plan to feature-access codes of the switching system's internal numbering plan, in the switching system's call processing arrangement (200) that uses stored definitions of syntax (320, 350) and grammar (400, 410) of the internal and network numbering plans. The aliasing is accomplished as follows. The syntax definitions of the internal numbering plan include definitions (312) of individual feature access codes, while the syntax definitions of the network numbering plan include definitions (312) of the aliased network numbers, which either are the same as the definitions of the corresponding feature access codes or direct the aliased network numbers to be translated into the corresponding feature access codes. In use, symbol strings received by the switching systems are parsed (210) to identify them as feature access codes or aliased network numbers, requisite translations are performed (230), and feature modules (205) that are pointed to (334) within the definitions are invoked (220).

53115848, May 10, 1994

Oct 31, 1991

7/786167

Frank J. Bogart - Boulder CO
Bruce D. Butterfield - Denver CO
David L. Chavez - Northglenn CO
Henry C. Dittmer - Westminster CO
Frederick R. Fix - Arvada CO
Larry J. Hardouin - Westminster CO
Nancy K. Schmidt - Broomfield CO
Linda L. Thomson - Westminster CO

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 700
H04M 342
H04M 300
G06F 1538

379220

A call-processing arrangement (200) views a network numbering plan as a language in the mathematical/computer science sense and takes a lexicographic approach to call processing. Numbering plan syntax is defined by data in tree data structures (320, 330), and numbering plan grammar is defined by data in matrix data structures (400, 410). The data structures are used by numbering plan-independent functions to determine the meaning of call-associated digit strings and to specify the treatment (e. g. , routing, features,) to be given to the call based on that meaning. A string-identification function (340) applies collected digits to the trees and matrices to find leafs (312) that define digit strings that make up the number. A string-action function (341) uses the definitions in the found leafs to form a call-route-specifying or call-feature-specifying index (254) for the call. A generalized route-selection function (343) uses a set of first call characteristics including the route-or-feature-specifying index to select from multi-dimensional matrices (1200, 1202) either a feature module (205) to be invoked or a routing-pattern number (1201), and in the latter case uses a set of second call characteristics including the routing-pattern number to select a route preference (1701) from routing pattern-preference tables (1300).

53217438, Jun 14, 1994

Feb 24, 1992

7/841312

Frank J. Bogart - Boulder CO
Bruce D. Butterfield - Broomfield CO
David L. Chavez - Northglenn CO
Henry C. Dittmer - Westminster CO
Frederick R. Fix - Arvada CO
Larry J. Hardouin - Westminster CO
Nancy K. Schmidt - Broomfield CO
Linda L. Thomson - Westminster CO

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

H04M 342
H04M 700

379207

In a shared-tenant services arrangement, numbering-plan independence and cross-plan access is provided to tenant groups by a call-processing arrangement (200) that stores separate definitions of both syntax (320, 350) and grammar (400, 410) of each group's own extension numbering plan. In response to receipt from a member of an individual tenant group of an extension number unaccompanied by a network dial-access code (DAC), the received extension number is analyzed (210) using the syntax and grammar definitions of the extension numbering plan of the individual group. But in response to receipt from the member of the extension number accompanied by a DAC, the DAC is analyzed using the syntax and grammar definition of the extension numbering plan of the individual group to determine an extension numbering plan that corresponds to the received DAC, and the received extension number is then analyzed using the syntax and grammar definitions of whichever extension numbering plan corresponds to the received DAC.