Patents by Inventor Chris L. Helbling

Chris L. Helbling 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).

  • Patent number: 9391580
    Abstract: An exemplary system comprises a device including a memory with an audio injection application installed thereon. The application comprises an equalizer module that analyzes sound characteristics of individual digital audio samples including a discrete signal, a selector module that applies a selection heuristic to select the discrete signal from the individual digital audio samples based on the sound characteristics, and an audio module that supplies to an output an insert signal generated according to the discrete signal selected by the selection heuristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cellco Paternership
    Inventor: Chris L. Helbling
  • Patent number: 8503650
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. Once identified, each participant user is contacted and a response is received from each of the users. Based on the received responses, a conference call is established between the participant users and the subscriber user. In one aspect of the invention, at least one of the detecting and identifying steps are performed without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignees: Verizon Data Services LLC, Telesector Resources Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig L. Reding, John R. Reformato, Mahesh Rajagopalan, Brian F. Roberts, Chris L. Helbling, Manvinder S. Chopra, Ken J. Hum, Apurva Pathak