Patents by Inventor Douglas L. Meares, Jr.

Douglas L. Meares, Jr. 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).

  • Automatic alarm code converter
    Patent number: 5272465
    Abstract: An automatic alarm code converter wherein a plurality of alarm dialers report alarm conditions using security industry standard pulsed tone, FSK, or DTMF formats and call through the PSTN to the converter. The converter comprises a telephone line interface/decoder, a microprocessor which correlates the received alarm ID and code with addresses in a page data memory. The page data memory contains a pager number and an associated alphanumeric ASCII message The code converter further comprises a software program embodied in an EPROM which instructs on the automatic formatting of the page data into the PET/TAP protocol. The code converter communicates the page data to the paging system through a full duplex serial port either by direct RS232 connection or remotely through a dial-out modem using the PET/TAP protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Telemessaging Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas L. Meares, Jr.