Patents by Inventor Craig Steven Chapel

Craig Steven Chapel 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).

  • Software architecture for providing communication features to different types of wireless telephones via different communication switching systems
    Patent number: 5666399
    Abstract: A mobility management system and a traditional telecommunication switching system provide telecommunication terminal features by the mobility management system executing a software architecture that utilizes a unique terminal management application for each type of wireless terminal and a unique terminal emulator application for each type of telecommunication link that interconnects the mobility management system to the telecommunication switching system. There is an individually assigned telecommunication link for each wireless terminal. The terminal management applications and the terminal emulator applications communicate utilizing an internal message protocol. In response to a wireless terminal requesting actuation of a feature, a terminal management application converts that request into the required internal protocol messages and transmits the internal protocol messages to the terminal emulator application that controls the telecommunication link assigned to the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Merrill Bales, Craig Steven Chapel, David Lee Chavez, Jr., Robert Louis Crumpley, Lisa P. Happel, Sandra Sue North