Patents by Inventor Douglas James MacDonald

Douglas James MacDonald 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).

  • Patent number: 8787533
    Abstract: A system and method for placing a phone call through a selected telephone network is disclosed. A member submits a source phone number and a destination phone number to an application server in the selected telephone network. The member's class of service (COS) is determined. A first phone call is placed to the source phone number, if it is within the member's COS. A second phone call is placed to the destination phone number if it is within the member's COS. Caller ID information associated with the member's phone in the selected telephone network is communicated to the destination phone. The phone calls are connected to enable communication between the source and destination phones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas James MacDonald
  • Publication number: 20100189236
    Abstract: A system and method for placing a phone call through a selected telephone network is disclosed. A member submits a source phone number and a destination phone number to an application server in the selected telephone network. The member's class of service (COS) is determined. A first phone call is placed to the source phone number, if it is within the member's COS. A second phone call is placed to the destination phone number if it is within the member's COS. Caller ID information associated with the member's phone in the selected telephone network is communicated to the destination phone. The phone calls are connected to enable communication between the source and destination phones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Douglas James MacDonald
  • Patent number: 7519801
    Abstract: Described is a configuration module useful for configuring modules of a modular application platform during run-time of the modular application platform. The configuration module produces a graphical dialog that displays a sequence of one or more configuration pages to a user to obtain from the user configuration information for each displayed configuration page. The configuration module defines an abstraction of a configuration page, and other modules of the modular application platform provide implementations of the configuration page abstraction to include at least one configuration page in the graphical dialog produced by the configuration module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Melaquias Eugene Martinez, Douglas James MacDonald, Thomas Michael Guyette