Patents Assigned to Telemac
  • Patent number: 6198915
    Abstract: A mobile phone system with a mobile phone having internal accounting capabilities for real time call debiting to account for the billing parameters of a mobile phone unit that is operated in a multi zone communication network with a complex rate structure, the mobile phone unit having an internal processor with accessible internal memory for storing the accounting program and call data for each call, a clock and circuit means for activating and deactivating the phone, the accounting program including an updatable rate table and a complex billing algorithm for calculating the account status on the fly including multiple rate structure factors such as long distance calls, international calls with country independent local charges, charges for roaming per day and/or roaming per minute, and call surcharges, where the account status of the mobile phone is calculated in real time for decrementing a debit account or calculating an account charge on demand, the mobile debit phone having a signal for alerting the user
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Telemac Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Scott McGregor, Gregory M. McGregor
  • Patent number: 6138004
    Abstract: An interlink receiver system and receiver unit for remote encoding wireless phone units including a host computer that communicates with the interlink receiver unit over telephone lines or airways to encode wireless phone units with the key code for authentication of the phone unit and encryption of communications from the phone unit during use, the interlink receiver unit connecting to the host computer for data exchange and controlling the encoding of a connected phone unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Telemac Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Melchin McGregor, Donald Scott McGregor, Theodore W. Watler
  • Patent number: 5625669
    Abstract: A mobile telephone programming and accounting system that includes an integrated hardware system interlinking a telephone unit, a telephone interlink receiver, and a central processing unit connected to the interlink receiver. The hardware system also preferably includes a receipt printer and a credit card reader. The telephone unit is preferably equipped with an internal real time clock and calendar circuit and memory store to record the time and date of calls for reporting to the central processing unit to enable tracking and detailed accounting of calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Telemac Cellular Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. McGregor, Gregory M. McGregor
  • Patent number: 5577100
    Abstract: A mobile phone system with a mobile phone having internal accounting capabilities for real time call debiting to account for the billing parameters of a mobile phone unit that is operated in a multi zone communication network with a complex rate structure, the mobile phone unit having an internal processor with accessible internal memory for storing the accounting program and call data for each call, a clock and circuit means for activating and deactivating the phone, the accounting program including an updatable rate table and a complex billing algorithm for calculating the account status on the fly including multiple rate structure factors such as long distance calls, international calls with country independent local charges, charges for roaming per day and/or roaming per minute, and call surcharges, where the account status of the mobile phone is calculated in real time for decrementing a debit account or calculating an account charge on demand, the mobile debit phone having a signal for alerting the user
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Assignee: Telemac Cellular Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. McGregor, Gregory M. McGregor
  • Patent number: 5325418
    Abstract: A cellular telephone accounting system includes an integrated hardware system interlinking a cellular telephone unit, a telephone interlink receiver, and a central processing unit connected to the interlink receiver. The hardware system also preferably includes a receipt printer and a credit card reader. The cellular telephone unit is equipped with an internal real time clock and calendar circuit and memory store to record the time and date of calls for reporting to the central processing unit to enable tracking and detailed accounting of calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Telemac Cellular Corporation
    Inventors: Donald S. McGregor, Gregory M. McGregor
  • Patent number: 4662442
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for casing a borehole made in a porous medium for measuring the pressure of the interstitial fluid, comprising the positioning, in the borehole, of a tube of which at least one section, located at the altitude of the measurement to be effected, possesses radial orifices along one of its generatrices, a porous band between the borehole wall and the outer surface of the section, at the level of said orifices, and a supple inner membrane in the form of a sleeve fitted on the inner face of the tube, the filling of the tube for applying the membrane against its wall and of the space included between the tube and the borehole to saturate said porous band, and the substitution of the outer liquid by a cement grout which bonds the tube to the walls of the borehole in all its zones exempt of porous band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignees: Telemac, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Pierre-Jean Debreuille