Patents by Inventor Daren R. Furness

Daren R. Furness 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 system for incoming call notification
    Patent number: 8046470
    Abstract: A mobile station that is fully engaged such that it cannot be connected to an incoming call without being disconnected from an existing call receives an incoming call notification. The incoming call notification may, for example, take the form of a short message system (SMS) message or a packet protocol message, such as a session initiation protocol (SIP) message. The incoming call notification may identify the calling party and may explain how to take the incoming call. If the user accepts the incoming call, the mobile station is disconnected from existing calls and connected to the incoming call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Lewis, Charles E. Woodson, Baoquan Zhang, Arun Santharam, Daren R. Furness, Von K. McConnell
  • Method and system for network presence notification
    Patent number: 7545762
    Abstract: In a packet-switched network, a subscribing application subscribes to a network presence server to receive selected network presence information. The network presence server obtains the selected network presence information, at least in part, from status messages that a network access server, such as a packet data serving node (PDSN), sends, for example, to an accounting server. The network presence server then provides the selected network presence information to the subscribing application. The selected network presence information may include an identification of a particular customer that has just initiated or terminated a data session and the network address the particular customer is or was using.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Von K. McConnell, Lyle T. Bertz, Arun Santharam, Matthew Barrow, Tania Mazza-Deblawe, Jesse Money, Ronald E. Lewis, Charles E. Woodson, Baoquan Zhang, Daren R. Furness, Tracy Poffenroth
  • Method and system for incoming call notification
    Publication number: 20020194331
    Abstract: A mobile station that is fully engaged such that it cannot be connected to an incoming call without being disconnected from an existing call receives an incoming call notification. The incoming call notification may, for example, take the form of a short message system (SMS) message or a packet protocol message, such as a session initiation protocol (SIP) message. The incoming call notification may identify the calling party and may explain how to take the incoming call. If the user accepts the incoming call, the mobile station is disconnected from existing calls and connected to the incoming call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Ronald E. Lewis, Charles Woodson, Baoquan Zhang, Arun Santharam, Daren R. Furness, Von K. McConnell