Patents by Inventor Alex Race

Alex Race 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).

  • Publication number: 20090019532
    Abstract: A communication system for providing instant messaging and presence services among users of a communications network. The system comprising a user subscribed to the service and arranged to send a plurality of requests, each request comprising a user identity corresponding to at least one user of a first set of users of the network. The system also comprising a server having an access point arranged to receive the requests from the user, and having a service element for providing the service and wherein a second set of users are subscribed to the service element. The system also having circuitry for checking which of the users in the second set match with the users in the first set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Niels Ebbe Jacobsen, Alex Race, Debbie Race