Patents by Inventor Alan Derek Dean

Alan Derek Dean 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).

  • Standardized email construction and search based on geographic location
    Patent number: 7437414
    Abstract: A method of and system for generating a set of standardized electronic mail addresses, provide a personal name code indicative of the name of a person, a location code indicative of a known location of the person, generate an electronic mail address for said person based on the personal name code and the location code and provide a database of said electronic mail addresses for a plurality of persons at one or more locations. The preferred embodiment allows electronic mail addresses to be constructed and indexed so as to provide the easy location by a combination of some or all of family name, forenames, district, telephone area code, and for attachment of any amount of information relating to that address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Inventor: Alan Derek Dean
  • System for constructing electronic mail addresses
    Publication number: 20010049723
    Abstract: A method of and system for generating a set of standardized electronic mail addresses, provide a personal name code indicative of the name of a person, a location code indicative of a known location of the person, generate an electronic mail address for said person based on the personal name code and the location code and provide a database of said electronic mail addresses for a plurality of persons at one or more locations. The preferred embodiment allows electronic mail addresses to be constructed and indexed so as to provide the easy location by a combination of some or all of family name, forenames, district, telephone area code, and for attachment of any amount of information relating to that address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Inventor: Alan Derek Dean