Patents by Inventor David Frank Baum

David Frank Baum 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).

  • Apparatus and method for handling dispatching messages for various applications of a communication device
    Patent number: 6425002
    Abstract: A communications device (10) with a processor having instructions that execute on the processor. The programmed instructions include a message manager program (16) for accepting and dispatching messages, one or more application programs (17, 18) for handling and presenting messages; and one ore more message client programs (30, 40) that receive messages from the message manager program (16) and provides them to the application program. The message manager program (16) accepts a registration from each message client program and sets rules, and message attributes to which the rules are to be applied for new messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodd Bryan Zurcher, David Frank Baum, James Van Peursem