Patents by Inventor Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam 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).
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Patent number: 8799806Abstract: Content may be displayed on a touch-screen display of a device as part of a graphical interface in which the content is divided into categories or sections, and each category/section is associated with a graphical tab. The device may detect a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a touch gesture received by the touch-screen display and display, on the touch-screen display, content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
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Patent number: 8793615Abstract: A device receives a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact and retrieves contact-related items for the particular contact. The device also retrieves a template for the interactive profile card and generates a graphic representing a contact-related item. The device displays the template with the graphic and executes a peripheral application to present the contact-related item when the graphic is selected by a user of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
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Patent number: 8738089Abstract: A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication device. The device also enlarges a portion of the audio waveform based on the sustained contact with the audio waveform, and displays, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform. The device further enables the user to manipulate, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, and provides, via a speaker, audible feedback associated with the manipulated enlarged portion of the audio waveform.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
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Patent number: 8453057Abstract: A device displays, on a screen, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, where the graphical window includes a group of display elements. The device also receives a user input to the graphical window and identifies a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a horizontal input or a vertical input. The device displays, on the screen, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is a horizontal input and scrolls through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is a vertical input.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
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Patent number: 8331992Abstract: A mobile communication device receives current information while the mobile communication device is in one of a sleep state or a locked state, and associates one or more portions of the current information with one or more corresponding windows. The mobile communication device also displays, via a display associated with the mobile communication device, the one or more corresponding windows and the one or more associated portions of the current information while the mobile communication device is in the locked state. The mobile communication device further enables a user associated with the mobile communication device to manipulate the one or more displayed corresponding windows while the mobile communication device is in the locked state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Sok Y. Hwang, Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
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Publication number: 20120083249Abstract: A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication device. The device also enlarges a portion of the audio waveform based on the sustained contact with the audio waveform, and displays, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform. The device further enables the user to manipulate, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, and provides, via a speaker, audible feedback associated with the manipulated enlarged portion of the audio waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INCInventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
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Patent number: 8099134Abstract: A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication device. The device also enlarges a portion of the audio waveform based on the sustained contact with the audio waveform, and displays, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform. The device further enables the user to manipulate, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, and provides, via a speaker, audible feedback associated with the manipulated enlarged portion of the audio waveform.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
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Publication number: 20100169772Abstract: Content may be displayed on a touch-screen display of a device as part of a graphical interface in which the content is divided into categories or sections, and each category/section is associated with a graphical tab. The device may detect a selection of one of the graphic tabs based on a touch gesture received by the touch-screen display and display, on the touch-screen display, content items corresponding to the subset of content items for the selected tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Verizon Data Services LLCInventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, JR., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
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Publication number: 20100159892Abstract: A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication device. The device also enlarges a portion of the audio waveform based on the sustained contact with the audio waveform, and displays, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform. The device further enables the user to manipulate, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, and provides, via a speaker, audible feedback associated with the manipulated enlarged portion of the audio waveform.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLCInventors: Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM, Heath STALLINGS
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Publication number: 20100162167Abstract: A device receives a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact and retrieves contact-related items for the particular contact. The device also retrieves a template for the interactive profile card and generates a graphic representing a contact-related item. The device displays the template with the graphic and executes a peripheral application to present the contact-related item when the graphic is selected by a user of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLCInventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. ROBERTS, Donald H. RELYEA, JR., Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM
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Publication number: 20100162160Abstract: A device displays, on a screen, a graphical window from a sequence of graphical windows, where the graphical window includes a group of display elements. The device also receives a user input to the graphical window and identifies a type of the user input, where the type of the user input includes a horizontal input or a vertical input. The device displays, on the screen, another graphical window from the sequence of graphical windows when the type of user input is a horizontal input and scrolls through a stack of the display elements within the graphical window when the type of user input is a vertical input.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLCInventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. ROBERTS, Donald H. RELYEA, JR., Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM
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Publication number: 20100159995Abstract: A mobile communication device receives current information while the mobile communication device is in one of a sleep state or a locked state, and associates one or more portions of the current information with one or more corresponding windows. The mobile communication device also displays, via a display associated with the mobile communication device, the one or more corresponding windows and the one or more associated portions of the current information while the mobile communication device is in the locked state. The mobile communication device further enables a user associated with the mobile communication device to manipulate the one or more displayed corresponding windows while the mobile communication device is in the locked state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLCInventors: Heath STALLINGS, Sok Y. HWANG, Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM