Charles A Byers, 807890 Wisconsin St, Shelby, MI 49455

6421338, Jul 16, 2002

Jun 5, 1998

09/092777

Charles Calvin Byers - Aurora IL
Michael Hirsh Cooper - Oak Park IL
Robert Leroy Lien - Batavia IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04L 1266

370352, 379219

A network resource server is deployed in a convergent telecommunications network for providing traditionally service circuit type applications to both circuit switches and packet switches of the convergent network. The network resource server includes a variety of processors for accommodating specific application requests from nodes within the convergent network. Advantageously, the network resource server has a greater capacity than traditional service circuit nodes and is able to serve both the circuit-based network elements and packet-based network elements in a convergent network. For this reason, the network resource server eliminates the need for traditional service circuit nodes and various types of data servers.

6614786, Sep 2, 2003

Nov 24, 1999

09/448740

Charles C. Byers - Aurora IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04L 1266

370353, 379 9309, 379494, 455445

A dual mode Internet telephone is capable of operating as a tone/pulse dial telephone as well as with the Internet by transmitting dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones in response to dialing. The dual mode telephone includes a mode control switch which is either manually selectable to permit a user to choose between making a call over a standard telephone network or over the Internet or is automatically controlled to route the call via the more advantageous communications link depending upon various factors and considerations. In the standard telephone mode of operation, most of the Internet telephony circuit is disabled and the dial/touchtone keypad, earpiece and mouthpiece, and ringer are connected to the telephone line. In the Internet mode of operation, dialed digits are stored and converted to Internet telephony call set-up messages. The signals to/from the earpiece and mouthpiece are digitized, compressed and packetized by a digital signal processor.

6646890, Nov 11, 2003

Sep 4, 2002

10/234813

Charles Calvin Byers - Wheaton IL
Todd Keaffaber - Plano IL
Andrew F. Scott - North Aurora IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H05K 718

361802, 361758, 361770, 211 4117, 439 761, 439 79

Mezzanine boards can be added to and removed from a supporting base board mounted in a slot of a shelf adjacent other base boards while the base boards remain in electrical service. Guide rails allow a mezzanine board to be slid into position from the front edge of the base board. The guide rails themselves can be moved to provide a new spacing to accommodate a different width mezzanine board without having to take the supporting base board out of service. Openings in the sides of the guide rails promote the flow of air between the mezzanine board and the base board to provide cooling.

6650451, Nov 18, 2003

Aug 24, 1999

09/379649

Charles Calvin Byers - Aurora IL
Stephen Joseph Hinterlong - Elburn IL
Robert Allen Novotny - Naperville IL
Robert E. Richardson - Wheaton IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04B 1000

359159, 359172

The scanning free space optical broadband access network uses LASERs to carry high-speed data streams between a central location and a number of subscribers served from that location. High-speed digital data modulates the LASERs in both directions, allowing a virtual MAN to be created. A few dozen subscribers share a single virtual pipe with several hundred Mbps band-width available. Beam scanning techniques at a central hub permit a single LASER and optical assembly to serve many customers.

6693901, Feb 17, 2004

Apr 6, 2000

09/544099

Charles Calvin Byers - Aurora IL
Stephen Joseph Hinterlong - Elburn IL
Robert Allen Novotny - Naperville IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04L 1240

370362, 370364

An electronic system for networking, switching or computing includes a backplane-based interconnection system ( ). The system includes a backplane ( ) with a plurality of traces coupled to slots for receiving circuit packs ( ). The backplane traces are configured to form point-to-point connections ( ) from one slot of the backplane to every other slot of the backplane. A hub circuit ( ) is provided on each circuit pack for coupling the circuit pack to the point-to-point connections in the backplane. Circuit packs communicate via direct connections over the point-to-point connections or indirectly by sending traffic through point-to-point connections and hub circuits.

6694015, Feb 17, 2004

Mar 6, 2000

09/519813

Charles Calvin Byers - Aurora IL, 60504
Mark Alan Lassig - Naperville IL, 60563
Carl Robert Posthuma - Wheaton IL, 60187

H04M 100

37939901, 379 2203, 379 2701, 379402, 37941302

A universal line card architecture includes core circuitry for performing battery, overvoltage, ringing, supervision, coder/decoder circuit (CODEC), hybrid and test (BORSCHT) functions interconnected to a control processor and processing system. The control processor and processing system serve a plurality of line cards and are configurable to one or more of a plurality of subscriber loop standards in which the line card can operate. Upon receipt of instructions from a configuration system, the processing system configures line card and core network interface elements so that an appropriate subscriber loop standard may be associated with the line card identified in the provisioning request.

6732273, May 4, 2004

Oct 21, 1998

09/176419

Charles Calvin Byers - Aurora IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H04L 1258

713193

The priority and security encoding system for electronic mail messages functions to ascribe a message characterization code to the electronic mail message that enables the router as well as the destination message server to more efficiently process the electronic mail message, based upon the message characterization code. The message characterization code is assigned by the message originator, or the message server that serves the message originator, to identify the nature of the electronic mail message. The message characterization code can be defined to denote any one or more message related factors, such as: message content, identification of the message originator, identification of the message recipient, or other message processing factors. The message characterizing code is used by the message routers, network nodes, and destination message server to prioritize the processing of electronic mail messages and optionally provide subscriber defined alternate routing of certain classes of messages. This message characterizing code can also be used to automatically initiate various electronic message security measures to safeguard the most sensitive classes of messages, without the need for subscriber intervention.

6735089, May 11, 2004

Mar 31, 2003

10/403478

Charles Calvin Byers - Wheaton IL
Todd Keaffaber - Plano IL
Andrew F. Scott - North Aurora IL

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

H05K 500

361754, 361747, 361755, 361759, 362 85, 362551

An ejector handle mounted to an electronic circuit card provides leverage to assist in engaging and disengaging the electronic circuit card from engagement with an electronic shelf. The ejector handle transmits light, such as by using light pipes, from an end of the handle adjacent to the faceplate of the electronic circuit card to a distal end of the handle where the transmitted light exits for viewing by maintenance personnel. A visual indicator assembly on the electronic circuit card supplies the sources of light that are coupled to and transmitted through the ejector handle. Indicia on the surface of the ejector handle identifies the corresponding function of the lights.