Patents by Inventor Charles Martin Hymes

Charles Martin Hymes 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).

  • Wireless communications with visually-identified targets
    Patent number: 8521185
    Abstract: A mechanism for initiating contact with someone, via a telecommunications system, who is in the admirer's proximity, but whose identity or telecommunications address (e.g., telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) is unknown. The illustrative embodiments enable the user to use what information he does know about the admired person—the admiring person's distinguishing characteristics—to get a telecommunications address through which the initial contact can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Inventor: Charles Martin Hymes
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS WITH PERCEIVED TARGETS
    Publication number: 20130053002
    Abstract: A method of exchanging data comprises specifying in a first electronic device a recipient via perceptual addressing, and sending information from the first electronic device indicating an intent to conditionally communicate with the recipient only upon an expression of interest from the recipient in communicating with a user of the first electronic device. In a further example, a conditional message is sent from the first electronic device to the specified recipient electronic device such that the conditional message is visible to a recipient device user only upon the expression of interest from the recipient in communicating with a user of the first electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventor: Charles Martin Hymes
  • Wireless communications with proximal targets identified visually, aurally, or positionally
    Patent number: 8014763
    Abstract: A method of exchanging data comprises specifying in a first electronic device a recipient via perceptual addressing, and sending information from the first electronic device indicating an intent to conditionally communicate with the recipient only upon an expression of interest from the recipient in communicating with a user of the first electronic device. In a further example, a conditional message is sent from the first electronic device to the specified recipient electronic device such that the conditional message is visible to a recipient device user only upon the expression of interest from the recipient in communicating with a user of the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Inventor: Charles Martin Hymes
  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS WITH VISUALLY- IDENTIFIED TARGETS
    Publication number: 20080051033
    Abstract: A mechanism for initiating contact with someone, via a telecommunications system, who is in the admirer's proximity, but whose identity or telecommunications address (e.g., telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) is unknown. The illustrative embodiments enable the user to use what information he does know about the admired person—the admiring person's distinguishing characteristics—to get a telecommunications address through which the initial contact can be made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventor: Charles Martin Hymes