Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

TEKELEC, INC.

321Patents
211Active
321Granted
54Portfolio score

Filing activity: Apr 3, 1998 → May 29, 2015 · 106 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7092505B2 Methods and systems for universal, automatic service selection in a telecommunications signaling network Electricity 256 Expired
US7155243B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for content-based screening of messaging service messages Electricity 140 Expired
US6819932B2 Methods and systems for preventing delivery of unwanted short message service (SMS) messages Electricity 121 Expired
US6324183A Systems and methods for communicating messages among signaling system 7 (SS7) signaling points (SPs) and internet protocol (IP) nodes using signal transfer points (STPS) Electricity 116 Expired
US7072678B2 Methods and systems for triggerless mobile group dialing Electricity 113 Expired
US6327350A Methods and systems for collecting and processing signaling system 7 (SS7) message signal units (MSUs) Electricity 112 Expired
US7650367B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and restoring missing or corrupted data in a distributed, scalable, redundant measurement platform database Physics 95 Active
US7155512B2 Methods and systems for automatically configuring network monitoring system Electricity 77 Expired
US6662017B2 Methods and systems for routing messages associated with ported subscribers in a mobile communications network Electricity 76 Expired
US7123710B2 Method and systems for intelligent signaling router-based surveillance Electricity 71 Expired
US6456845B1 Methods and systems for observing, analyzing and correlating multi-protocol signaling message traffic in a mobile telecommunications network Electricity 71 Expired
US6967956B1 Methods and systems for providing message translation, accounting and routing service in a multi-protocol communications network environment Electricity 69 Expired
US9298515B2 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a virtualized diameter network architecture and for routing traffic to dynamically instantiated diameter resource instances Electricity 65 Active
US7738488B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing wireless-fidelity (Wi-Fi) gateway visitor location register (VLR) functionality Electricity 60 Active
US7701925B1 Presence registration and routing node Electricity 60 Expired
US6745041B2 Methods and systems for communicating between subscribers of different application-layer mobile communications protocols Electricity 60 Expired
US7079524B2 Methods and systems for off-loading a-interface short message service (SMS) message traffic in a wireless communications network Electricity 57 Expired
US6836477B1 Methods and systems for routing messages in a communications network Electricity 56 Expired
US6954526B1 Methods and systems for routing calling name service query messages in a communication network Electricity 52 Expired
US7644215B2 Methods and systems for providing management in a telecommunications equipment shelf assembly using a shared serial bus Physics 51 Active
US7996541B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying a serving home subscriber server (HSS) in a communications network Electricity 51 Active
US7299050B2 Methods and systems for generating, distributing, and screening commercial content Electricity 50 Expired
US7916685B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for supporting database access in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) network environment Electricity 50 Active
US8737304B2 Methods, systems, and computer readable media for hybrid session based diameter routing Electricity 49 Active
US6954794B2 Methods and systems for exchanging reachability information and for switching traffic between redundant interfaces in a network cluster Electricity 46 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.