Patents by Inventor Gilbert Hu
Gilbert Hu 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: 7280649Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications server including configuring a personal auto attendant associated with a particular telephone extension, the personal auto attendant including a series of menu selections, each menu selection associated with a user defined action, receiving an incoming call from a caller for the particular telephone extension, transferring the incoming call to the particular telephone extension, outputting the series of menu selections to the caller, receiving a menu selection from the series of menu selections from the caller, and performing a user-defined action associated with the menu selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: AltiGen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert Hu, Shirley Sun
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Patent number: 7058047Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications system comprises receiving over a computer network, a plurality of data packets from a first telecommunications system, in a second telecommunications system, determining a telephone number in response to a first set data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining computer network call-back data in response to a second set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining message data in response to a third set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, and storing the message data and the computer network call-back data in the second telecommunications system, the message data and the computer network call-back data associated with the telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: AltiGen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Shirley Sun, Gilbert Hu
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Patent number: 7027578Abstract: A method for operating a telephone server includes receiving an incoming call from a first user for a second user at a telephone extension, prompting the first user to speak a message, receiving a spoken message from the first user, receiving a spoken telephone call-back number from the first user, recognizing a numeric telephone call-back number in response to the spoken telephone call-back number, associating the numeric telephone call-back number with the spoken message, and storing the spoken message and the numeric telephone call-back number in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Altigen CommunicationInventor: Gilbert Hu
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Patent number: 6956848Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a telecommunications system includes a telephone call from an external telephone line, determining a computer network address and switching data in response to the telephone call, coupling the telecommunications system with a remote telecommunications system at the computer network address, transmitting switching data from the telecommunications system to the remote telecommunications system via the Internet, coupling the telephone call to an auto attendant at the remote telecommunications system in response to the switching data.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: AltiGen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Donggun Keung, Yi Zhang, Shirley Sun, Gilbert Hu
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Patent number: 6909780Abstract: A method for operating a telephone server includes receiving an incoming call from a caller, coupling the incoming call to a voice mail server, coupling the incoming call to a voice mail mailbox with the voice mail server, receiving a request from the caller to initiate an outbound call, saving a state of the voice mail server in response to the request, receiving dialing instructions from the caller, processing the dialing instructions to make the outbound call, and restoring the state of the voice mail server after the outbound call is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2000Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Altigen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert Hu, En-Kuang Lung, Chiaming Jen
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Publication number: 20050063364Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications system comprises receiving over a computer network, a plurality of data packets from a first telecommunications system, in a second telecommunications system, determining a telephone number in response to a first set data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining computer network call-back data in response to a second set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining message data in response to a third set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, and storing the message data and the computer network call-back data in the second telecommunications system, the message data and the computer network call-back data associated with the telephone number.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Applicant: AltiGen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Shirley Sun, Gilbert Hu
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Publication number: 20050053204Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications server including configuring a personal auto attendant associated with a particular telephone extension, the personal auto attendant including a series of menu selections, each menu selection associated with a user defined action, receiving an incoming call from a caller for the particular telephone extension, transferring the incoming call to the particular telephone extension, outputting the series of menu selections to the caller, receiving a menu selection from the series of menu selections from the caller, and performing a user-defined action associated with the menu selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Applicant: AltiGen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert Hu, Shirley Sun
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Patent number: 6766006Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications server including configuring a personal auto attendant associated with a particular telephone extension, the personal auto attendant including a series of menu selections, each menu selection associated with a user defined action, receiving an incoming call from a caller for the particular telephone extension, transferring the incoming call to the particular telephone extension, outputting the series of menu selections to the caller, receiving a menu selection from the series of menu selections from the caller, and performing a user-defined action associated with the menu selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2000Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Altigen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Gilbert Hu, Shirley Sun
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Patent number: 6754202Abstract: A method for operating a telecommunications system comprises receiving over a computer network, a plurality of data packets from a first telecommunications system, in a second telecommunications system, determining a telephone number in response to a first set data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining computer network call-back data in response to a second set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, determining message data in response to a third set of data packets from the plurality of data packets, and storing the message data and the computer network call-back data in the second telecommunications system, the message data and the computer network call-back data associated with the telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Altigen Communications, Inc.Inventors: Shirley Sun, Gilbert Hu