Kong C Cheng

US Patent:

7912902, Mar 22, 2011

Filed:

Feb 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/779058

Inventors:

Kong Cheng - Mendham NJ, US
Benjamin Falchuk - Upper Nyack NY, US
Vito Jokubaitis - Chester NJ, US
Fuchun J. Lin - Morris Plains NJ, US
Robert Pinheiro - Westfield NJ, US

Assignee:

Telcordia Licensing Company, LLC - Piscataway NJ

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 9/44
G06F 3/00

US Classification:

709205, 709202, 717171, 719317

Abstract:

Service applications at one or more service providers are bundled through a server thereby creating new services. The server comprises service agents, each of which corresponds to one or more service applications and proxies for its application(s) to perform service bundling. When a subscriber interacts with a service application and affects service specific data, the application sends this data along with the subscriber's intent with respect to this data to the server. The server next identifies a primary service agent, which is the agent proxying for the application. This agent determines a peer group of service agents, wherein each peer agent corresponds to a service application that together define a bundled service. The principal and peer agents subsequently negotiate/coordinate with respect to the service data. As a result, the agents may communicate with their respective service applications to determine a subscriber's current service data configurations and/or to update these configurations.

US Patent:

8346794, Jan 1, 2013

Filed:

Aug 3, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/849522

Inventors:

Kong Eng Cheng - Mendham NJ, US
Munir Cochinwala - Far Hills NJ, US
Dennis E. Egan - Westfield NJ, US
Benjamin W. Falchuk - Upper Nyack NY, US

Assignee:

TTI Inventions C LLC - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707763, 707769, 707802

Abstract:

Input data queries directed at a plurality of target databases and originating from any of a plurality of sources are first converted to validated canonical forms, which are then used to query the target databases. Specifically, upon receiving an input data query, a relatively accurate reference database is selected based on the type of the input data. This reference is then queried for the input data with the intent of finding an exact matching record or a near-matching record that can be considered an exact match and thereby validating the input data. Otherwise, the requesting source is instructed to provide a new query. Once having a validated record, it is converted to a canonical form, which is then used to query the target databases intended to be searched. In a further embodiment, multiple reference databases are queried to determine a canonical form of the data or to determine multiple canonical forms of the data.

US Patent:

20050240569, Oct 27, 2005

Filed:

Apr 21, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/828575

Inventors:

Kong Cheng - Mendham NJ, US
Munir Cochinwala - Far Hills NJ, US
Dennis Egan - Westfield NJ, US
Benjamin Falchuk - Upper Nyack NY, US
John Wullert - Martinsville NJ, US

International Classification:

G06F007/00

US Classification:

707003000

Abstract:

Input data queries directed at a plurality of target databases and originating from any of a plurality of sources are first converted to validated canonical forms, which are then used to query the target databases. Specifically, upon receiving an input data query, a relatively accurate reference database is selected based on the type of the input data. This reference is then queried for the input data with the intent of finding an exact matching record or a near-matching record that can be considered an exact match and thereby validating the input data. Otherwise, the requesting source is instructed to provide a new query. Once having a validated record, it is converted to a canonical form, which is then used to query the target databases intended to be searched. In a further embodiment, multiple reference databases are queried to determine a canonical form of the data or to determine multiple canonical forms of the data.