Patents by Inventor Janice C. Chung

Janice C. Chung 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).

  • Methods and systems to provide a message in a messaging system without revealing an identity of the sending party
    Patent number: 6608888
    Abstract: Methods and systems to send a message from a sending party to a recipient without the message revealing an identity of the sending party. The identity may be the name of the sending party, a calling line number associated with a calling line of the sending party, or an e-mail address of the sending party. The message may be a reply to a previous message or a forwarding message of an earlier message. In response to a message being received, a check is made to determine whether an anonymity feature is enabled for all messages received from the sending party, or whether the anonymity feature is enabled for the message. In response to finding the anonymity feature enabled for all messages or for the message, an anonymity indicator is included with the message. The presence of the anonymity indicator has the effect of withholding the identity of the sending party when the message is made available to or retrieved by the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
    Inventors: James Carlton Bedingfield, Navneet Patel, Emily A. Candell, Ann V. McLaughlin, Robert E. Braudes, Janice C. Chung
  • Methods and systems to provide a message in a messaging system without revealing an identity of the sending party
    Publication number: 20020110227
    Abstract: Methods and systems to send a message from a sending party to a recipient without the message revealing an identity of the sending party. The identity may be the name of the sending party, a calling line number associated with a calling line of the sending party, or an e-mail address of the sending party. The message may be a reply to a previous message or a forwarding message of an earlier message. In response to a message being received, a check is made to determine whether an anonymity feature is enabled for all messages received from the sending party, or whether the anonymity feature is enabled for the message. In response to finding the anonymity feature enabled for all messages or for the message, an anonymity indicator is included with the message. The presence of the anonymity indicator has the effect of withholding the identity of the sending party when the message is made available to or retrieved by the recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: James Carlton Bedingfield, Navneet Patel, Emily A. Candell, Ann V. McLaughlin, Robert E. Braudes, Janice C. Chung