Patents by Inventor Charles Margosian

Charles Margosian 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).

  • Systems and methods for institutional messaging
    Patent number: 9888111
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automating messaging in an institutional setting by assigning a resident of an institution a control mechanism, providing the resident access to a messaging system via a telecommunications system, and providing one or more message options to the resident as a function of the resident's control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Wesley Larry Apple, Timothy Edwin Pabon, John Vincent Townsend, Charles David Orr, Johnnie Richard Tayloe, Phillip Matthew Apanovitch, Charles Margosian
  • Systems and methods for institutional messaging
    Patent number: 9491291
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automating messaging in an institutional setting by assigning a resident of an institution a control mechanism, providing the resident access to a messaging system via a telecommunications system, and providing one or more message options to the resident as a function of the resident's control mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Wesley Larry Apple, Timothy Edwin Pabon, John Vincent Townsend, III, Charles David Orr, Johnnie Richard Tayloe, Phillip Matthew Apanovitch, Charles Margosian, Dan Apple
  • Computer-based method and apparatus for controlling, monitoring, recording and reporting telephone access
    Patent number: 7106843
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing institutional telephone activity utilizing a computer-based telephony management unit to connect institutional telephones with outside telephone lines. The unit provides institutional users with fully automated, direct dial and collect calling privileges for local, long distance, and international calls. The unit contains a database for storing the calling privileges and restrictions of institutional users, for recording calling transactions made by the users, and for managing user monetary accounts. The unit can record up to 400 hours of conversation in a digital format. The unit provides various administrative capabilities, including user account management, audit trails, transaction reports, centralized management and report capabilities, and detection of fraudulent calling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: T-Netix, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay L. Gainsboro, Charles Margosian