Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Scott Reid
  • Patent number: 6728346
    Abstract: A multifunction, communication device including a user recognition device for obtaining user identifying data from a user, an interface for receiving the user identifying data from the user recognition device, a memory for containing personal user contact data associated with the user, and a controller having a user interface for controlling the operation of the communication device by using the personal user contact data associated with the user in performing at least one function of the communication device. Control of the operation of the multifunction communication device includes obtaining user identifying data from the user, associating the user identifying data with the user's personal user contact data located in a memory, and performing a function of the communication device using the personal user contact data of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Stanley Czyszczewski, David George Greenwood, James T. Smith, II, Luana L. Vigil, Ivan Woehr