Robert M Bell
Physician in Bountiful, UT

7890749, Feb 15, 2011

May 26, 2006

11/420506

James R. Tighe - Frisco TX, US
Ronald D. Higgins - The Colony TX, US
Richard B. Platt - Allen TX, US
Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04L 29/00

713151, 370352, 709218, 709227, 709231, 709232, 379 87, 379229

A method is provided for establishing a telephone call between a trusted Internet Protocol (IP) telephone and an untrusted device. The method includes receiving a call initiation request from the untrusted device that indicates a desired communication with the trusted IP telephone. The method evaluates the call initiation request, and establishes a telecommunication link between the untrusted device and the trusted IP telephone in response to a positive evaluation of the call initiation request.

6707914, Mar 16, 2004

Nov 29, 1999

09/450861

Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06F 0124

380 46, 380 23, 380 43, 380 50

Within a communications system, first and second end stations coupled to a network participate in a communications session with one another using the network. Each end station includes an encryptor having at least a first linear feedback shift register (LFSR) and at least an associated first interconnect mask of a length not longer than the length of the first LFSR. At a particular one of the end stations, the encryptor generates an output sequence using the first LFSR and the first interconnect mask. An interconnect mask table contains polynomials that each correspond to an available interconnect mask. The end station receives a session key specifying the first interconnect mask. The end station uses the output sequence of the encryptor to encrypt an information stream during the session. In one particular embodiment, the network includes a local area network (LAN) that supports Internet Protocol (IP) and the end stations use real time protocol (RTP) to communicate audio information streams.

5937057, Aug 10, 1999

Mar 5, 1997

8/811675

Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT
Richard B. Platt - Allen TX

Selsius Systems, Inc. - Dallas TX

H04M 300

379265

For use in a call center having a plurality of agent stations and an audio automatic call distribution system (ACD) for routing an incoming audio call received from a communications network to one of the plurality of agent stations, a system and method that allows the audio ACD to route an audio/video call received into the call center. The system includes: (1) an audio/video call control circuit for responding to a video portion of an incoming audio/video call from the communications network and routing an audio portion of the incoming audio/video call to the audio ACD, the audio ACD processing the audio portion as an incoming audio call and routing the audio portion to one of the plurality of agent stations and (2) a video routing circuit for determining an identity of the one of the plurality of agent stations and routing the video portion to the one of the plurality of agent stations in response thereto, both the audio portion and the video portion of the incoming audio/video call thereby routed to the one of the plurality of agent stations in response to routing control given by the audio ACD.

6874093, Mar 29, 2005

Jan 14, 2004

10/757086

Robert Bell - Bountiful UT, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06F001/26

713300, 713310, 713320, 713340, 710313, 710315, 710300, 710303

The invention is directed to techniques for discovering a powerability condition of a computer network such as the existence of a remotely powerable device attached to a connecting medium of the computer network. Such detection can then control whether a remote power source (e. g. , a data communications device such as a switch) provides remote power (e. g. , phantom power) to the computer network. One arrangement of the invention is directed to an apparatus for discovering a powerability condition of a computer network. The apparatus includes a signal generator, a detector and a controller which is coupled to the signal generator and the detector. The controller configures the signal generator to provide a test signal to a connecting medium of the computer network, and configures the detector to measure a response signal from the connecting medium of the computer network. The controller then indicates whether a remotely powerable device connects to the connecting medium of the computer network based on the response signal. Accordingly, if the apparatus discovers a remotely powerable device attached to the computer network (i. e.

7436814, Oct 14, 2008

Apr 22, 2005

11/112086

Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04L 12/28

370351, 709223, 709227, 455557

Selecting a transport address for a call session between a first endpoint of a first region and a second endpoint of a second region includes determining that the call session is being initiated. A relationship between the first region and the second region is determined. One or more transport addresses of the first endpoint are identified in accordance with the relationship to yield one or more selected transport addresses.

7099280, Aug 29, 2006

Mar 28, 2001

09/821536

Shmuel Shaffer - Palo Alto CA, US
Joseph F. Khouri - San Jose CA, US
Michael E. Knappe - Sunnyvale CA, US
Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06F 11/00

370252, 370352

A method and system for logging voice quality issues for a communication connection includes receiving a signal for logging quality information for a voice connection at an endpoint of the voice connection. Voice samples are collected from the voice connection at the endpoint. The voice samples are stored in an error log at the endpoint.

2008006, Mar 13, 2008

Aug 22, 2006

11/466343

Annie Wong - San Jose CA, US
Shisen Chang - San Jose CA, US
Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US
Eddie B. Soliman - San Jose CA, US

H04L 9/32

726 2

In one embodiment, a secure computer telephony integration (CTI) connection is established between a call analysis and/or screening device and a call control agent. The call analysis device sniffs secure media packets between the endpoints and receives CTI events from the call control agent via the secure CTI connection. The device correlates the CTI events with the secure media packets, enabling the device to decrypt the packets to perform voice quality troubleshooting or call screening in real-time.

8488775, Jul 16, 2013

Dec 7, 2010

12/962153

Shmuel Shaffer - Palo Alto CA, US
Labhesh Patel - San Francisco CA, US
Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US
Shantanu Sarkar - San Jose CA, US

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H04M 3/00

3792661, 379 68, 380201

A method for recording automatic call distributor calls includes receiving from a caller a call for distribution to one of a plurality of agents and distributing the call to a first agent of the plurality of agents for handling. The method includes creating a call signature associated with the call for recording verification and recording communications of the call to a recording file. The method also includes embedding the call signature in the recording file.

2011030, Dec 8, 2011

Jun 7, 2010

12/795466

FABIO R. MAINO - Palo Alto CA, US
Pere Monclus - San Jose CA, US
David A. McGrew - Poolesville MD, US
Robert T. Bell - Bountiful UT, US
Steven Joseph Rich - Maryville TN, US

G06F 12/14, G06F 9/24

713 2, 713189

Techniques are described for securely booting and executing a virtual machine (VM) image in an untrusted cloud infrastructure. A multi-core processor may be configured with additional hardware components—referred to as a trust anchor. The trust anchor may be provisioned with a private/public key pair, which allows the multi-core CPU to authenticate itself as being able to securely boot and execute a virtual machine (VM) image in an untrusted cloud infrastructure.

2012030, Nov 29, 2012

May 24, 2011

13/114831

ANTHONY H. GRIECO - Wake Forest NC, US
CHIRAG K. SHROFF - Apex NC, US
ROBERT T. BELL - Bountiful UT, US

G06F 15/177

713 2

The present disclosure describes techniques evaluating compute and/or thermal loads (among other things) to aid in managing a collection of one or more containerized or modular data centers. For example, forecasts (or real-time measurements) of environmental factors (as well as projected computing demands) may be used to tailor the compute loads, cooling strategies or other metric of data center operations for a network of containerized or modular data centers. Doing so allows an operator of such a data center network to manage specific operational goals in real time.