Patents by Inventor Thomas Daniel Koser

Thomas Daniel Koser 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).

  • Flexible ring-tone service
    Patent number: 8150025
    Abstract: A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Koser, Jeffery L. Scruggs, Stephen Mark Mueller
  • Flexible ring-tone service
    Patent number: 7233658
    Abstract: A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Koser, Jeffrey L. Scruggs, Stephen Mark Mueller
  • Flexible ring-tone service
    Publication number: 20040032946
    Abstract: A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Koser, Jeffrey L. Scruggs, Stephen Mark Mueller