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).

  • Patent number: 8799806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
  • Patent number: 8793615
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
  • Patent number: 8738089
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
  • Patent number: 8453057
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Stallings, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
  • Patent number: 8331992
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Stallings, Sok Y. Hwang, Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
  • Publication number: 20120083249
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC
    Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
  • Patent number: 8099134
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam, Heath Stallings
  • Publication number: 20100169772
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. Roberts, Donald H. Relyea, JR., Daniel Spurgeon Dunnam
  • Publication number: 20100159892
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM, Heath STALLINGS
  • Publication number: 20100162167
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. ROBERTS, Donald H. RELYEA, JR., Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM
  • Publication number: 20100162160
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Heath STALLINGS, Brian F. ROBERTS, Donald H. RELYEA, JR., Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM
  • Publication number: 20100159995
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: VERIZON DATA SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Heath STALLINGS, Sok Y. HWANG, Daniel Spurgeon DUNNAM