Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Venier

Daniel J. Venier 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).

  • Method and apparatus for routing a call to a number corresponding to a virtual public dial plan or to an existing dial plan
    Patent number: 5768358
    Abstract: A method for creating a virtual public numbering domain, which will coexist with and be parallel and non-intrusive to the existing geographic North American telephone network numbering plan is disclosed. It will have sufficient capacity to provide additional and more flexible numbering resources which will stimulate and enable many new service applications. The existing telephone network infrastructure has digital switching points and a database system. The method includes receiving at one of the digital switching points a called number, and verifying whether the number called is a number of the virtual public dial plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Stentor Resource Centre Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Venier, L. Lloyd Williams, R. William Carkner, Morlen R. Reynolds
  • Method and apparatus for routing a call to a number corresponding to a virtual public dial plan or to an existing dial plan
    Patent number: 5583926
    Abstract: A method for creating a virtual public numbering domain, which will coexist with and be parallel and non-intrusive to the existing geographic North American telephone network numbering plan is disclosed. It will have sufficient capacity to provide additional and more flexible numbering resources which will stimulate and enable many new service applications. The existing telephone network infrastructure has digital switching points and a database system. The method consists of receiving at one of the digital switching points a called number, and verifying whether the number called is a number of the virtual public dial plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Stentor Resource Centre Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Venier, L. Lloyd Williams, R. William Carkner, Morlen R. Reynolds