Patents by Inventor Beatrice H. A Butsana-Sita

Beatrice H. A Butsana-Sita 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).

  • Communications system
    Patent number: 6912270
    Abstract: A message distribution system for distributing a message via a telecommunications network to a plurality of communications terminals comprises: a message unit for contacting each of the terminals and sending the message, memory for storing, for a plurality of said terminals, corresponding terminal address data, and storing also a plurality of geographical element data linking geographical features of a portion of the Earth with location data; input for accepting an input control signal to initiate message distribution; area designation unit to designate a geographical area within the portion of the Earth; terminal derivation unit for outputting the terminal address data of terminals for outputting the terminal address data of terminals recorded as being geographically within the area and supplying the addresses for use by the message unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited company
    Inventors: Ian R Drury, Beatrice H. A Butsana-Sita, Anthony M Brown, Seamus A Bridgeman