Patents by Inventor James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
James C. Bedingfield, Sr. 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: 10482428Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a metaphor engine having a controller, and a storage medium for storing instructions to be executed by the controller. The instructions, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to receive a measure of a mood of an individual, create a metaphor according to the measure of the mood of the individual, and present the metaphor to an entity requesting to interact with the individual. The measure of the mood can be synthesized from collected information associated with a behavior of the individual, and can indicate an availability of the individual and a receptiveness of the individual to accept a request to interact with an entity. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: John Donovan, James C. Bedingfield, Sr., Barbara Roden
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Patent number: 10423291Abstract: Methods, systems, and products manage events in an electronic calendar. A calendar event may be associated with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder. That is, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 9792589Abstract: Methods, systems, and products acknowledge a reminder in a calendaring application. When an acknowledgement of the reminder is received, a message is communicated to similarly acknowledge a pending reminder in another instance of the calendaring application.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Publication number: 20160162846Abstract: Methods, systems, and products manage events in an electronic calendar. A calendar event may be associated with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder. That is, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, SR.
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Patent number: 9286600Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing events in an electronic calendar. One such method associates an event with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. A calendar entry corresponding to the event is stored. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder when launched. That is, when the electronic calendar is initialized, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 8990678Abstract: Methods of automatically updating content on a web site, allowing web site visitors to request notification of updates to the content of a web site, and notifying persons of updated content on a web site are disclosed. Update alert tables and systems for implementing the foregoing methods also are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 8335239Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for conserving bandwidth. If a presence of a multimedia device is detected, then a stream of data is delivered to the multimedia device. If the presence of the multimedia device is not detected, then the stream of data is degraded to conserve bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Henry J. Kafka, Eric E. Small, James C. Bedingfield, Sr., Daniel M. Baeza
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Patent number: 8156054Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a synthesis engine having a controller, and a storage medium for storing instructions to be executed by the controller. The instructions, when executed by the controller, can cause the controller to retrieve collected information associated with a behavior of an individual, synthesize from the information a measure of a mood of the individual to interact with others, and transmit the measure to a system associated with the individual to manage requests between the individual and the entity. The measure of the mood of the individual can indicate an availability of the individual and a receptiveness of the individual to accept a request to interact with an entity. The measure can be described by a plurality of dimensions. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: John Donovan, James C. Bedingfield, Sr., Barbara Roden
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Patent number: 8112632Abstract: A security device having a knowledge input module obtaining knowledge data and a user data storage module storing user-specific data. A processor performs at least part of a user authorization process in response to the knowledge data and the user-specific data. An emitter in communication with the processor emits a signal indicative of the result of the user authorization process.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 8019064Abstract: A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireline telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, and a monitoring module all in communication with each other. The remote call notification is transmitted to a remote communication device such as a PC, an interactive pager, and a mobile phone. The call notification includes a calling number, the name of a calling party, time and date identifiers, status identifiers that provides a real-time status of the incoming communication, a disposition identifier, and a priority identifier. A remote call notification method including detecting an incoming communication to a subscriber's wireline communication device, creating a remote call notification, assigning an access address associated with a remote communication device, and forwarding the remote call notification to the remote communication device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James C. Bedingfield, Sr., David A. Levine, Anita Simpson
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Patent number: 7983408Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing calls. An alias is associated to a called party's destination number. When the alias is then dialed for a call, the call is routed to the destination number. Exemplary embodiments thus enable a user to make calls without having to dial a long string of numbers. The user, instead, may simply select and dial an easy-to-remember alias associated with the called party.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.Inventors: James C. Bedingfield, Sr., Robert A. Koch
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Publication number: 20110154207Abstract: Methods, systems, and products acknowledge a reminder in a calendaring application. When an acknowledgement of the reminder is received, a message is communicated to similarly acknowledge a pending reminder in another instance of the calendaring application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, SR.
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Patent number: 7925990Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for acknowledging a reminder in a calendaring application. One such method stores a calendar entry corresponding to an event and a rule. The rule comprises a reminder of the event. The reminder is presented according to the rule, and an acknowledgement of the reminder is received. A message is then communicated in real-time to similarly acknowledge a pending reminder that corresponds to the same event in another instance of the calendaring application.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 7894589Abstract: A method and system for identifying telemarketer communications directed to a subscriber of a call screening service is provided. A link monitoring system monitors all inbound and outbound calls of a carrier network collecting data such as calling and called telephone directory numbers, and a termination status for at least each inbound call to a calling number. The data is analyzed at a telemarketer detection module to determine calling patterns of calling numbers. If a calling pattern of a calling telephone number matches a profile of telemarketer communications, the calling number is stored in a database of telephone directory numbers associated with telemarketer communications. A call is received from a calling party directed to a subscriber of the call screening service. Then a determination is made as to whether a telephone directory number of the calling party is known.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Publication number: 20100067678Abstract: A method and system for identifying telemarketer communications directed to a subscriber of a call screening service is provided. A link monitoring system monitors all inbound and outbound calls of a carrier network collecting data such as calling and called telephone directory numbers, and a termination status for at least each inbound call to a calling number. The data is analyzed at a telemarketer detection module to determine calling patterns of calling numbers. If a calling pattern of a calling telephone number matches a profile of telemarketer communications, the calling number is stored in a database of telephone directory numbers associated with telemarketer communications. A call is received from a calling party directed to a subscriber of the call screening service. Then a determination is made as to whether a telephone directory number of the calling party is known.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, SR.
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Publication number: 20100058246Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing events in an electronic calendar. One such method associates an event with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. A calendar entry corresponding to the event is stored. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder when launched. That is, when the electronic calendar is initialized, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, SR.
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Patent number: 7640507Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing events in an electronic calendar. One such method associates an event with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. A calendar entry corresponding to the event is stored. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder when launched. That is, when the electronic calendar is initialized, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Patent number: 7623646Abstract: A method and system for identifying telemarketer communications directed to a subscriber of a call screening service is provided. A link monitoring system monitors all inbound and outbound calls of a carrier network collecting data such as calling and called telephone directory numbers, and a termination status for at least each inbound call to a calling number. The data is analyzed at a telemarketer detection module to determine calling patterns of calling numbers. If a calling pattern of a calling telephone number matches a profile of telemarketer communications, the calling number is stored in a database of telephone directory numbers associated with telemarketer communications. A call is received from a calling party directed to a subscriber of the call screening service. Then a determination is made as to whether a telephone directory number of the calling party is known.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property, I,L.P.Inventor: James C. Bedingfield, Sr.
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Publication number: 20090016519Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing calls. An alias is associated to a called party's destination number. When the alias is then dialed for a call, the call is routed to the destination number. Exemplary embodiments thus enable a user to make calls without having to dial a long string of numbers. The user, instead, may simply select and dial an easy-to-remember alias associated with the called party.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: James C. Bedingfield, SR., Robert A. Koch
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Patent number: 7443974Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing calls. A dialed digit string is received and analyzed to determine whether the dialed digit string is a complete string according to a dialing plan of a service provider. If the dialed digit string is a complete string, then the call is sent for routing to the dialed digit string. If the dialed digit string is not a complete string, then it is determined whether the dialed digit string is a valid string according to a calling party's personal dialing plan. If the dialed digit string is valid, then a number is retrieved that corresponds to the dialed digit string according to the calling party's personal dialing plan. The call is then routed to the number.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: James C. Bedingfield, Sr., Robert A. Koch