Patents by Inventor Frederick Murray Burg
Frederick Murray Burg 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).
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Patent number: 9628626Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Publication number: 20150381812Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 9214154Abstract: A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory stores executable program code that converts text data to speech data. Text data represents a textual message directed to a system user and speech data represents a spoken form of text data having the characteristics of an individual's voice. A processor executes the program code, and a storage device stores a pTTS template and may store speech data. The pTTS system can be used to provide various services that provide immediate spoken presentation of the speech data converted from text data and/or combine stored speech data with generated speech data for spoken presentation.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Edmund Gale Acker, Frederick Murray Burg
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Patent number: 9160860Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Publication number: 20150095034Abstract: A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory stores executable program code that converts text data to speech data. Text data represents a textual message directed to a system user and speech data represents a spoken form of text data having the characteristics of an individual's voice. A processor executes the program code, and a storage device stores a pTTS template and may store speech data. The pTTS system can be used to provide various services that provide immediate spoken presentation of the speech data converted from text data and/or combine stored speech data with generated speech data for spoken presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Edmund Gale Acker, Frederick Murray Burg
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Patent number: 8918322Abstract: A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory stores executable program code that converts text data to speech data. Text data represents a textual message directed to a system user and speech data represents a spoken form of text data having the characteristics of an individual's voice. A processor executes the program code, and a storage device stores a pTTS template and may store speech data. The pTTS system can be used to provide various services that provide immediate spoken presentation of the speech data converted from text data and/or combine stored speech data with generated speech data for spoken presentation.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Edmund Gale Acker, Frederick Murray Burg
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Patent number: 8891410Abstract: A network-based system and method for providing anonymous voice communications using the telephone network and data communications links under the direction of a Call Broker and associated network elements. A user (the call initiator) present in a text chat room session establishes a data connection to Call Broker and, after qualifying for access (e.g., using credit card information) and providing a callback number, receives voice session information and participant access codes for each desired participant in a voice call. The initiator causes session information and participant codes to be passed to one or more selected chat participants in the current text chat room. When a selected participant uses the received session information, and enters the received participant code and a callback number, the Call Broker in cooperation with a Network Adjunct Processor (NAP) completes voice links to the initiator and the selected participant(s).Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: Frederick Murray Burg
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Publication number: 20140248859Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 8761357Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Publication number: 20130279667Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 8494125Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 8355349Abstract: A network-based system and method for providing anonymous voice communications using the telephone network and data communications links under the direction of a Call Broker and associated network elements. A user (the call initiator) present in a text chat room session establishes a data connection to Call Broker and, after qualifying for access (e.g., using credit card information) and providing a callback number, receives voice session information and participant access codes for each desired participant in a voice call. The initiator causes session information and participant codes to be passed to one or more selected chat participants in the current text chat room. When a selected participant uses the received session information, and enters the received participant code and a callback number, the Call Broker in cooperation with a Network Adjunct Processor (NAP) completes voice links to the initiator and the selected participant(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: Frederick Murray Burg
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Publication number: 20120069973Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 8085908Abstract: A network method for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which a caller may leave a voice-message that includes the identification of an attachment, which may include, as examples only, audio, video, text, programs, spreadsheets and graphic attachments. A video, text, spreadsheet or graphic attachment may be converted to an audible attachment to the voice-mail at the caller's or the voice-mail subscriber's request. Such entries may be made, after receiving an automated prompt for leaving an attachment identifier or conversion request, audibly or by using a keypad entry. A network method is also provided for using a network telephone voice-mail service, by which the voice-mail service may detect an attachment to a voice-mail message and provide access to the attachment to the voice-mail message.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property IIInventors: Frederick Murray Burg, John F. Lucas, Vivian A. Pressley-Harris
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Patent number: 7962648Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying and prioritizing applications and application servers in a Voice over IP network is disclosed. In a first embodiment, elements of signaling information are extracted from a call and are mapped to parameters associated with the call. These mapped parameters are then used by a service broker in a VoIP network to identify one or more application servers adapted to process the values of the respective parameter. The service broker may illustratively identify the application servers by a pointer to permit flexible reassignment of processing of a given parameter. The matched pointer/parameter combinations are then mapped to a precedence index. Then, according to this precedence index, the aforementioned pointers are mapped to specific addresses of application servers and the elements of signaling information are forwarded to those addresses for processing of applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Neela R. Alturi, Frederick Murray Burg, Saul Daniel Fishman, James A. Ibezim, Barbara Joanne Kittredge, Lauraine M. Schalk-Pizza
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Patent number: 7864939Abstract: A method and a system allows an Instant Message (IM) user or an E-mail user to arrange and to place a present or a future telephone call by way of a respective IM or E-mail, without dialing a telephone.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: Frederick Murray Burg
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Patent number: 7822184Abstract: One or more elements in a telecommunications network (10, 10? and 10?) receive a call hold-initiating message when a first party places a second party to the call on hold, and in doing so, triggers a call hold event in the network. In response to the call hold-initiating message, the network element may take one or more actions, including releasing one or more network resources and/or providing a service to the second party during the period the call remains on hold. Upon resumption of the call, the network will re-acquire the resources that had been previously released.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property IIInventors: Frederick Murray Burg, Mark Jeffrey Foladare, Tung-Hai Hsiao
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Patent number: 7804818Abstract: A method for maintaining signaling history of application servers to be invoked and applications to be provided in a VoIP network. In one illustrative embodiment, the signaling history of application servers that have been invoked and/or applications that have been processed is inserted into a message header by each application server in the network in turn as applications are processed. These headers are then carried in the message traffic between the SB, CCE and AS's in order to maintain a record of these invocations/processing. The SB may illustratively refer to these messages in determining the order in which applications are to be processed as well as to determine when all services have been processed. In another illustrative embodiment, this signaling history may illustratively be carried in SIP VIA headers.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Neela R. Atluri, Frederick Murray Burg, Martin Christopher Dolly, Lauraine M. Schalk-Pizza
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Publication number: 20100135283Abstract: A network-based system and method for providing anonymous voice communications using the telephone network and data communications links under the direction of a Call Broker and associated network elements. A user (the call initiator) present in a text chat room session establishes a data connection to Call Broker and, after qualifying for access (e.g., using credit card information) and providing a callback number, receives voice session information and participant access codes for each desired participant in a voice call. The initiator causes session information and participant codes to be passed to one or more selected chat participants in the current text chat room. When a selected participant uses the received session information, and enters the received participant code and a callback number, the Call Broker in cooperation with a Network Adjunct Processor (NAP) completes voice links to the initiator and the selected participant(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventor: Frederick Murray Burg
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Patent number: 7660294Abstract: A network-based system and method for providing anonymous voice communications using the telephone network and data communications links under the direction of a Call Broker and associated network elements. A user (the call initiator) present in a text chat room session establishes a data connection to Call Broker and, after qualifying for access (e.g., using credit card information) and providing a callback number, receives voice session information and participant access codes for each desired participant in a voice call. The initiator causes session information and participant codes to be passed to one or more selected chat participants in the current text chat room. When a selected participant uses the received session information, and enters the received participant code and a callback number, the Call Broker in cooperation with a Network Adjunct Processor (NAP) completes voice links to the initiator and the selected participant(s).Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2005Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventor: Frederick Murray Burg