Patents by Inventor Dewey Alcott Frech

Dewey Alcott Frech 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).

  • Calling party identification announcement service
    Patent number: 6233325
    Abstract: Calling party identification announcement service (CPIAS) provides an announcement of the caller's name to a called party, so that the called party may accept of reject a call. This invention relates to arrangements for providing CPIAS using centralized announcement synthesis apparatus, under the control of a data base (in accordance with the principles of intelligent networks), within the basic call processing arrangements of the public switched telephone network, without requiring users of the services to have two telephone numbers. Billing entries for the use of the announcement service are made under the control of the terminating switch so that these entries can be readily combined with other billing entries for the called party in order to generate a bill for that party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Dewey Alcott Frech, John Brian Reid, Anton Johnnes Roug, Timothy Jerome Scale
  • Calling party identification announcement service
    Patent number: 5729592
    Abstract: Calling party identification announcement service (CPIAS) provides an announcement of the caller's name to a called party, so that the called party may accept of reject a call. This invention relates to arrangements for providing CPIAS using centralized announcement synthesis apparatus, under the control of a data base (in accordance with the principles of intelligent networks), within the basic call processing arrangements of the public switched telephone network, without requiring users of the services to have two telephone numbers. Billing entries for the use of the announcement service are made under the control of the terminating switch so that these entries can be readily combined with other billing entries for the called party in order to generate a bill for that party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Dewey Alcott Frech, John Brian Reid, Anton Johannes Roug, Timothy Jerome Scale