JAMES EDWIN REAVES
Pilots at Wellsley Way, Raleigh, NC

6421427, Jul 16, 2002

Oct 15, 1997

08/950481

James Arthur Hill - Shakopee MN
James Edwin Reaves - Raleigh NC
Matthew Charles Jackson - Raleigh NC
William K. Choi - San Jose CA

Nortel Networks Limited - Montreal

H04M 164

379 8814, 379 8812, 379 8816, 379 9312, 37914214, 37920107, 37920715, 37921102, 37921201, 37926509, 379902

An interactive voice response (IVR) system collects data associated with a telephone call, and provides the data to a server. The server transforms the data into a format consistent with a different telephony platform specification implemented by clients attached to the server such that the data can be retrieved by any client to which a telephone call is transferred. Data is also shared between remote servers when calls are transferred. The servers each broadcast their identity when initially connected to a wide area network. In response, each server on the network responds with their identify. Each server updates a table of servers in accordance with the messages exchanged.

6487286, Nov 26, 2002

Dec 21, 1998

09/216987

James Edwin Reaves - Raleigh NC
John H. Yoakum - Cary NC

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04M 700

3792211, 379229, 379230, 37922108

The common channel signaling (CCS) system of the public switched telecommunication network involves digital call routing information that is communicated between the switches of the network and signal transfer points (STPs) of the CCS system and among the STPs themselves. The CCS system causes the network switches and the trunks that connect them to be so interconnected as to complete a connection between a calling party and a called party. The STPs are kept as close as practicable to the network switches so as to minimize the length of the digital transmission links between them. This results in a proliferation of less-than-optimally utilized STPs. Therefore, the constituent parts of a STP are geographically distributed over a wide geographical area with higher-capacity digital links between the constituent parts of the STP, in order to realize substantial transmission cost savings and to drastically reduce the number of individual STPs extant and thus reduce the complexity of the CCS communication between them.

6421674, Jul 16, 2002

Feb 15, 2000

09/504211

John H. Yoakum - Cary NC
James E. Reaves - Raleigh NC
Paul D. Alluisi - Raleigh NC

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

G06F 1730

707 10

A system for implementing a real-time distributed, hierarchical database uses a proxiable protocol. The system includes a first proxy server for receiving a first proxiable protocol message from a first network element. The first proxy server performs a first database lookup based on information contained in the first message. If the first proxy server does not obtain the requested information, the first proxy server formulates a second proxiable protocol message and forwards the message to a second proxy server. A second proxy server receives the second message and performs a second database lookup based on information contained in the second message. The second proxy server sends the results from the second database lookup to the first proxy server and the first proxy server forwards the results to the database user.

6735621, May 11, 2004

Aug 15, 2000

09/638580

John H. Yoakum - Cary NC
James E. Reaves - Raleigh NC
Paul D. Alluisi - Raleigh NC

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

G06F 1516

709218, 709232, 709238, 709249, 370352, 370401, 379219, 37922001

Method and apparatus for messaging between disparate networks. A service control gateway (SCG) provides the capability to extend advanced intelligent network (AIN) services transparently between circuit switched and packet networks. In one embodiment, the invention works by translating signaling system (SS ) transaction capabilities application part (TCAP) messages into session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE messages. SIP messages, which may be responses to the translated messages referred to above, are translated back into TCAP messages. Data from messages is stored in an interaction database, a data structure maintained at the SCG. The SCG uses the interaction database to properly format translated messages for each network.

7274783, Sep 25, 2007

May 14, 2002

10/145335

John H. Yoakum - Cary NC, US
James E. Reaves - Raleigh NC, US
Paul D. Alluisi - Raleigh NC, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04M 7/00

379219, 379230

A system for implementing a real-time distributed, hierarchical database uses a proxiable protocol. The system includes a first proxy server for receiving a first proxiable protocol message from a first network element. The first proxy server performs a first database lookup based on information contained in the first message. If the first proxy server does not obtain the requested information, the first proxy server formulates a second proxiable protocol message and forwards the message to a second proxy server. A second proxy server receives the second message and performs a second database lookup based on information contained in the second message. The second proxy server sends the results from the second database lookup to the first proxy server and the first proxy server forwards the results to the database user.

5909430, Jun 1, 1999

Dec 31, 1996

8/775565

James Edwin Reaves - Raleigh NC

Northern Telecom Limited - Montreal

H04L 1256, G06F 1300

370254

An ATM switched network has an ATM switch, an address server, and a plurality of nodes connected through virtual connections established by the ATM switch. When a node fails and is replaced, the ATM switch recognizes the installation of the node and notifies the address server. The address server selects an ATM address for the replacement node and sends the ATM address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the node. The node responds by requesting configuration data, which the address server downloads to the node. Thereafter, the node may initialize its communication interfaces within the ATM network. The address server also assigns ATM and IP addresses to network nodes following power-up of the network. Nodes are assigned an ATM address and an IP address by the address server, thereby eliminating the need to configure nodes with addressing information during manufacture or installation.

7349533, Mar 25, 2008

Oct 1, 2002

10/262616

Naile S. Daoud - Kanata, CA
Calvin E. Drover - Ottawa, CA
James E. Reaves - Raleigh NC, US
Alvin P. Enns - Raleigh NC, US

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

H04M 3/42

37922001, 37922101

The present invention provides a Universal Signaling Point (USP) that acts as a liaison between a call signaling network and a number of switching entities, which support lines, trunks, or a combination thereof. During a transition of the lines or trunks from a donor entity to a host entity, call signaling between the host and donor entities and the SS7 network is routed through the USP. When transitioning the lines or trunks from the donor entity to the host entity, call signaling messages intended for the donor entity are routed to either the donor or host entity, whichever actually supports the lines or trunks. The USP is provided information indicative of whether a line or trunk has been transitioned to the host entity. The USP can compare information provided in the call signaling message with the transition information and route the message to the appropriate donor or host entity.