Patents by Inventor Dale S. DeJager

Dale S. DeJager 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).

  • End-User communications device with automatic carrier selection capability for intraLATA toll calls
    Patent number: 5550910
    Abstract: An end-user communicating device and method for enabling a user-selected communications carrier network to download data into a RAM within the end-user communicating device in response to a telephone call initiated by a user of the end-user communicating device to the carrier network to access a database within the carrier network. The data includes a carrier access code that is used to establish intraLATA toll calls and exchange numbers included in an intraLATA toll calling area associated with origination information obtained during the telephone call, such as the telephone number of the end-user communicating device. The end-user communicating device prepends the carrier access code to subsequently dialed telephone numbers that contain one of the exchange numbers included in the intraLATA toll calling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Dale S. DeJager