Patents by Inventor Dorene Weiland

Dorene Weiland 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 extending IP PBX services to cellular wireless communication devices
    Patent number: 7406330
    Abstract: An IP PBX system that serves enterprise telephones via a landline IP network connection is be expanded to serve cellular wireless communication devices (WCD) via a cellular wireless carrier's radio access network (RAN). Calls to and from the cellular WCD are connected through the cellular carrier's RAN and the IP PBX system, so that the IP PBX system can control and manage the calls just as the IP PBX would control and manage calls involving other extensions on the IP PBX. A cellular WCD thereby becomes an IP PBX client station, i.e., an extension on the IP PBX system. As such, the cellular WCD can seamlessly benefit from many of the same IP PBX features that other more conventional IP PBX client stations (e.g., desk phones) enjoy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Von K. McConnell, Jeffrey F. Phillips, Dorene Weiland, Charles E. Woodson, Farni Weaver, Lyle W. Paczkowski
  • Method and system for extending IP PBX services to cellular wireless communication devices
    Publication number: 20060030357
    Abstract: An IP PBX system that serves enterprise telephones via a landline IP network connection is be expanded to serve cellular wireless communication devices (WCD) via a cellular wireless carrier's radio access network (RAN). Calls to and from the cellular WCD are connected through the cellular carrier's RAN and the IP PBX system, so that the IP PBX system can control and manage the calls just as the IP PBX would control and manage calls involving other extensions on the IP PBX. A cellular WCD thereby becomes an IP PBX client station, i.e., an extension on the IP PBX system. As such, the cellular WCD can seamlessly benefit from many of the same IP PBX features that other more conventional IP PBX client stations (e.g., desk phones) enjoy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Von McConnell, Jeffrey Phillips, Dorene Weiland, Charles Woodson, Farni Weaver, Lyle Paczkowski