Patents by Inventor Wayne S. Tom

Wayne S. Tom 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).

  • Patent number: 5812950
    Abstract: A system and method for providing prioritized greetings to subscribers having cellular telephone services based on subscriber location. The system identifies a plurality of service zones in the system, and also transmits predefined services to subscribers when located in the service zones. The system transmits service zone identification information from each service zone to each of the subscribers located in the service zone. The system also transmits to each of the subscribers zone profile information having an associated priority for which the subscriber receives differing predefined services. The system compares subscriber zone profile information with the service zone information transmitted and provides a greeting to the subscriber identifying the predefined service available to the subscriber located in that zone whereby any overlap in zones for which a subscriber receives differing predefined services will result in the greeting relating to higher prioritized zone profile information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Wayne S. Tom
  • Patent number: 5806000
    Abstract: A system and method for providing short message service point-to-point extension phone service within a radio telecommunications network. The system includes a gateway mobile switching center (G-MSC), a home location register (HLR), a plurality of mobile switching centers (MSCs), and a plurality of intelligent terminals. The intelligent terminals are assigned to a single common pilot directory number (PDN) in addition to their individual directory numbers. When a call directed to the PDN is received in the G-MSC, the G-MSC sends a routing request message to the HLR. The HLR sends a short message service (SMS) data transmission to each of the plurality of intelligent terminals assigned to the PDN notifying associated mobile subscribers of an incoming extension phone call. Mobile subscribers desiring to accept the call utilize their intelligent terminals to send a responding SMS message back to the HLR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kim Vo, Wayne S. Tom