This inventor holds 2 USPTO granted patents. Top assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.. Active years: 2002-2004.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2002-2004
Title: John Patrick Shea: Telecommunications Software Upgrade Patents
Introduction
John Patrick Shea is an inventor associated with Aurora, Illinois, and Lucent Technologies Inc. His work includes patented methods for assessing and monitoring software upgrades on telecommunications switches. Shea is credited with 2 patents.
Latest Patents
**Method and Apparatus for Analyzing the Progress of a Software Upgrade on a Telecommunications Switch.** This invention describes a system for monitoring a software upgrade or retrofit by analyzing text messages reporting a switch’s status and events. A server detects messages that indicate progress through upgrade stages, failures, alarms, and errors. It tracks the time spent in each stage and compares it with expected durations, while a client interface displays progress and highlights delays or problems.
**Method and Apparatus for Determining Whether the Immediate State of a Telecommunications Switch Is Adequate for a Software Upgrade.** This invention evaluates whether a telecommunications switch is ready for an upgrade or retrofit. The system detects messages about hardware errors, alarms, and other issues, assigns them numerical values reflecting potential failure risk, and accumulates those values for comparison with a threshold. It also checks whether the report stream has been monitored long enough to support a reliable assessment. A user interface presents the switch’s readiness and organizes detected issues by subsystem and failure type.
Career Highlights
Shea’s listed inventions address two complementary stages of telecommunications maintenance: determining whether a switch is suitable for an upgrade and tracking the upgrade as it proceeds. Both use report-stream analysis and user-interface displays to help operators identify risks and respond to errors.
Collaborations
Shea’s listed coworkers include Michael Dean Lilley and John Frank Saban. His work is associated with Lucent Technologies Inc.
Conclusion
John Patrick Shea’s patents focus on improving the reliability and visibility of telecommunications software upgrades, from readiness assessment through progress monitoring.
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