Frank Anthony Denap

US Patent:

6407997, Jun 18, 2002

Filed:

Aug 5, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/129248

Inventors:

Frank Anthony DeNap - Millbrae CA
Harold Wayne Johnson - Lenexa KS
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS
Timothy Gene Kelley - Shawnee KS
James William Baumgart - Valley Center CA
Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS
Abdullah Murat Bog - Milpitas CA

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L 1266

US Classification:

370352, 3703951, 370401, 370466, 370494

Abstract:

The invention is an ATM communications system that provides the option of advanced communications services or conventional telephone service to the customer. Advantageously, the ATM communications system does not require the widespread deployment of class 5 telephone switches to provide telephone service. A residential communications hub is located at a residence and communicates with the telephones at the residence using the analog telephony format. The residential communications hub converts between the analog telephony format and the ATM format. The residential communications hub is connected to a DSL mux by telephone wiring that carries the ATM/DSL format. The residential communications hub and the DSL mux communicate using the ATM/DSL format. The DSL mux converts between the ATM/DSL format and the ATM/SONET format. The DSL mux is connected to the an ATM switch by a broadband connection that carries the ATM/SONET format.

US Patent:

6490273, Dec 3, 2002

Filed:

Aug 5, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/129249

Inventors:

Frank Anthony DeNap - Millbrae CA
Harold Wayne Johnson - Lenexa KS
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS
Timothy Gene Kelley - Shawnee KS
James William Baumgart - Valley Center CA
Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS
Abdullah Murat Bog - Milpitas CA

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L 1266

US Classification:

370352, 3703951, 370409

Abstract:

The invention comprises a series of architectures that are implemented in four phases to provide a migration path from an initial ATM service offering to a full service ATM network. The initial ATM network includes several metropolitan ATM networks that are interconnected by a core ATM network. Each metropolitan ATM network includes a service node that controls ATM network elements to deliver services. In Phase I, a business hub that is connected to the metropolitan ATM network integrates voice, data, and Internet traffic over a single ATM connection that contains permanent Virtual Connections (PVCs) to various destinations, such as other business hubs, a gateway to local and long distance networks, the Internet, a frame relay network. In Phase II, the architecture is extended to smaller business markets. Businesses are provided with the PVC-based ATM service using xDSL/ATM connections that are multiplexed at a central office and then provided to the service node over the metropolitan ATM network.

US Patent:

6829234, Dec 7, 2004

Filed:

Aug 30, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/650560

Inventors:

Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS
Frank Anthony DeNap - Overland Park KS
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS
Murat Bog - Roach MO
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS
Harold Wayne Johnson - Roach MO

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L 1266

US Classification:

370352, 370466

Abstract:

The invention is a communications system that provides communications services to an end-user. The system includes a residential hub that is connected to the communications system over a DSL connection. The residential hub converts voice traffic to ATM for transmission over the DSL connection. The communications system includes an asynchronous communication system that is connected to a POTS system. The asynchronous communication system converts the ATM transmission to a PSTN format and transfers the PSTN format to the POTS system.

US Patent:

6868081, Mar 15, 2005

Filed:

Apr 13, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/290855

Inventors:

Abdul Ghafoor Akram - Grandview MO, US
Stanley Chum - Fremont CA, US
Frank Anthony DeNap - Millbrae CA, US

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L012/56
H04J003/16
H04J003/22
H04M001/60
H04M009/00

US Classification:

370356, 370352, 370389, 370468, 379173, 379229

Abstract:

According to the invention, a method and apparatus are disclosed for providing multiline telephonic and data services over a single access facility. In one embodiment of the present invention, a wall unit is located at a customer premises which terminates a single analog phone line and adaptively encodes using Voice over Internet Protocol technology and multiplexes a plurality of telephonic and data calls over the single analog phone line. A corresponding gateway server (or a plurality of gateway servers), which supports one or a plurality of wall unit calls, is located in the public switched telephone network (“PSTN”), or possibly in a private telephone network. The gateway server communicates with one or more active wall units to extract one or more telephonic and data calls from the analog signal produced from a wall unit, and to appropriately route the telephonic calls over the PSTN and the data packets over the Internet or to other data services. The telephonic and data devices connected to the wall unit are each assigned individual virtual phone numbers by the provider of the service embodying this invention. To reach one of these devices, its respective virtual telephone number is used.

US Patent:

6993011, Jan 31, 2006

Filed:

Aug 30, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/650984

Inventors:

Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS, US
Frank Anthony DeNap - Overland Park KS, US
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS, US
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS, US
Murat Bog - Kansas City MO, US
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS, US
Harold Wayne Johnson - Roach MO, US

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L 12/66

US Classification:

370352, 3703951, 370466

Abstract:

The invention is a residential communication hub for a communication system that provides communications services to an end-user. The residential hub is connected to the communications system over a DSL connection. The residential hub converts voice traffic to ATM for transmission over the DSL connection. The communications system includes broadband networks and a service node to facilitate communications services for the end-user.

US Patent:

7072475, Jul 4, 2006

Filed:

Jun 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/893136

Inventors:

Frank A. DeNap - Millbrae CA, US
Timothy Roscoe - San Francisco CA, US
Arvid Evans - Suisun City CA, US

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04R 1/10

US Classification:

381 74, 381172, 398134, 398141, 4555691

Abstract:

Apparatus and methods for transferring audio between a headset and electronic equipment over an optical link. The apparatus includes an electro-optical interface for electrically connecting to the electronic equipment, an optical link, and an electro-optical headset. Audio from the electronic equipment modulates a light source in the electro-optical interface. A modulated light signal is transmitted through the optical link to the electro-optical headset where it is demodulated and reproduced as the original audio in the ear of a user wearing the headset. Also, another audio from the user's mouth produces another modulated light signal in the electro-optical headset. The other modulated light signal is transmitted through the optical link to the electro-optical interface where it is demodulated to provide the other audio to the electronic equipment. The non-electrical optical link may improve audible communications between the electronic equipment and the headset in radio-frequency noisy environments. Also, the non-electrical optical link may prevent coupling with an aerial of the electronic equipment and improve radio propagation.

US Patent:

7693131, Apr 6, 2010

Filed:

Jul 20, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/894852

Inventors:

Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS, US
Frank Anthony DeNap - Overland Park KS, US
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS, US
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS, US
Murat Bog - Kansas City MO, US
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS, US
Harold Wayne Johnson - Lenexa KS, US

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P. - Overland Park KS

International Classification:

H04L 12/66
H04J 3/16
H04J 3/22

US Classification:

370352, 370466

Abstract:

A communication system provides PSTN access to a user device coupled to a packet network over a packet connection. The user device exchanges telephony signaling and telephony communications in an analog format with an analog telephone, exchanges the telephony signaling and the telephony communications in the packet format over the packet connection, and exchanges Internet communications over the packet connection. A service node exchanges the telephony signaling in the packet format with the user device, processes the telephony signaling to select a PSTN connection, transfers a control message indicating the PSTN connection, and exchanges the telephony signaling in a PSTN format with the PSTN. An interworking unit receives the control message, and in response, exchanges the telephony communications in the packet format with the user device and exchanges the telephony communications in the PSTN format with the selected PSTN connection.

US Patent:

61413399, Oct 31, 2000

Filed:

Apr 4, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/826641

Inventors:

Martin Joseph Kaplan - Olathe KS
Frank Anthony DeNap - Overland Park KS
John Arndt Strand - Leavenworth KS
William Lee Edwards - Overland Park KS
Bryan Lee Gorman - Mission KS
Murat Bog - Kansas City MO
Michael Thomas Swink - Lenexa KS
Harold Wayne Johnson - Roach MO

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company, L.P. - Kansas City MO

International Classification:

H04L 1266

US Classification:

370352

Abstract:

The invention is a communications system that provides communications services to an end-user. The system includes a residential hub that is connected to the communications system over a DSL connection. The residential hub converts voice traffic to ATM for transmission over the DSL connection. The communications system includes broadband networks and a service node to facilitate communications services for the end-user.