Patents by Inventor John B. Miles

John B. Miles 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 and apparatus for selectively communicating in a wireless communication system based on varying time incremental costs of communication
    Patent number: 6556817
    Abstract: A wireless communication system employs a method and apparatus for selectively communicating in the wireless communication system based on varying time incremental costs of communication. A communication unit (116) receives a transmission (118) from the system infrastructure of the wireless system, wherein the transmission indicates a time incremental cost of future communications as temporarily established by the system infrastructure. Responsive to receiving the transmission, the communication unit determines whether the received time incremental cost is acceptable to a user of the communication unit (e.g., whether the received cost is less than or equal to a previously stored desired cost or whether, after displaying the received cost to the user, the user has indicated his or her acceptance of the cost).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Slim S. Souissi, John B. Miles, Henry Wandt, Donald J. Szczpanik
  • Housing for paging equipment
    Patent number: D336303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin Teitzman, William B. Benoist, William J. Scheid, Richard J. Toth, John B. Miles