Patents by Inventor Herbert Johnson, Jr.

Herbert Johnson, Jr. 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).

  • Method for processing a hyperlink formatted message to make it compatible with an alphanumeric messaging device
    Patent number: 6081815
    Abstract: A method processes a hyperlink formatted message to make it compatible with an alphanumeric messaging device (118) that lacks hyperlink decoding capability. The hyperlink formatted message includes at least one hyperlink having tags, a hyperlink identifier, and a resource locator. The method, which is used in a messaging controller of a messaging system (100) that communicates with a plurality of alphanumeric messaging devices, replaces (210) all occurrences of a first character within the hyperlink formatted message with a second displayable character, marks (220) each hyperlink identifier within the hyperlink formatted message using the first displayable character, removes (225) the tags and resource locator of each of the at least one hyperlink, and stores (227) the resource locator of each of the at least one hyperlink in association with the hyperlink identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Loring Spitznagel, Gerald Herbert Johnson, Jr.
  • Attachable elastic shoe sleeve
    Patent number: D680715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Inventor: Herbert Johnson, Jr.