Patents by Inventor DAVID BRUCE PLATZER

DAVID BRUCE PLATZER 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).

  • System and method for distributing auto-attendant across user endpoints
    Patent number: 9049296
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide techniques and apparatus that may be used to distribute services in a telephone system. Utilizing these techniques, functions conventionally centralized and requiring a separate server may be distributed to end units, for example, as instances of such applications running on network telephones. Examples of such functions include, but are not limited to, auto attendant functions, distributed voice mail functions, and operator functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Bruce Platzer, Eric K. Weeren
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING AUTO-ATTENDANT ACROSS USER ENDPOINTS
    Publication number: 20080095352
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide techniques and apparatus that may be used to distribute services in a telephone system. Utilizing these techniques, functions conventionally centralized and requiring a separate server may be distributed to end units, for example, as instances of such applications running on network telephones. Examples of such functions include, but are not limited to, auto attendant functions, distributed voice mail functions, and operator functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: DAVID BRUCE PLATZER, ERIC K. WEEREN