[May 24, 2012] Prominence Networks Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Prominence Networks, Holmdel, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,185,640) developed by four co-inventors for a "graphical user interface (GUI) for administering a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) network implementing media aggregation." The co-inventors are Siddhartha Nag, Holmdel, N.J., Alfred D'Souza, Lincroft, N.J., Naveed Alam, Freehold, N.J., and Rakesh Patel, Fairview, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed that allows a user to identify routers, communities, residents and media aggregation managers existing on a network. The user may interactively select a path that includes two media aggregation managers and at least one router. The GUI predicts scheduled bandwidth utilization along the selected path for a variety of residents wishing to communicate across the path. The GUI may be utilized for initializing all media aggregation managers on the network along with provisioning each of the routers on the selected path. The GUI provisions all of the routers and initializes all of the media aggregation managers on the selected path simultaneously in order to accomplish the predicted schedule of usage provided by the GUI to the user and force all communication packets communicated between the residents to travel along the selected path." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2010 (12/873,075). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,185,640&OS=8,185,640&RS=8,185,640 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. KS0524AK0524-741109 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]