Patents by Inventor Eric Bierman

Eric Bierman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Service order mechanism for telephone subscriber
    Patent number: 6031904
    Abstract: A system and method for allowing telephone subscribers to update over the Internet the features which are active on the telephone. A server on the Internet is connected to a profile repository which determines which features are active on each subscriber line. Subscribers with Internet access may access a special home page, and access their feature profile and make additions, deletions etc. to it. This eliminates the need for a human operator to process requests for changing feature profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Yafan An, Eric Bierman, Michael A. Kelly
  • Visual calling person display
    Patent number: 5761279
    Abstract: A system for displaying graphic information such as a facial representation on a communications terminal. The facial representation is digitized, compressed and stored in memory at the appropriate control center of a communications network. Upon receipt of a display command the digitized data is retrieved from memory and transmitted to the called party's display terminal using modem technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: Eric Bierman, Ernst August Munter