Patents Assigned to United States Advance Network, Inc.
  • Customized, billing-controlled call bridging system
    Patent number: 5943403
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing customized, billing-controlled call bridging services through a bridging node which includes a node interface for connection through incoming and outgoing telephone trunks to a carrier switch of a public switched network, an audio peripheral for recording, playing, and analyzing audio signals, and a node controller for controlling operation of the node interface and the audio peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: United States Advance Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Thomson Richardson, Jr., Kevin Lee Austin, Samuel F. Billingsley, III
  • Customized, billing-controlled call bridging system
    Patent number: 5355403
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing customized, billing-controlled call bridging services through a bridging node which includes a node interface for connection through incoming and outgoing telephone trunks to a carrier switch of a public switched network, an audio peripheral for recording, playing, and analyzing audio signals, and a node controller for controlling operation of the node interface and the audio peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: United States Advance Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Richardson, Jr., Kevin L. Austin, Samuel F. Billingsley, III
  • Automated telecommunication peripheral system
    Patent number: 5335266
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing customized telecommunication services through a peripheral node which includes a node interface for connection through incoming and outgoing telephone trunks to a carrier switch of a public switched network, an audio response unit for recording, playing, and analyzing audio signals, and a node controller for controlling operation of the node interface and the audio response unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: United States Advance Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles T. Richardson, Jr., Kevin L. Austin, Samuel F. Billingsley, III