Patents by Inventor Edmund Alexander Newcombe

Edmund Alexander Newcombe 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).

  • Mechanism to support multiple versions of toll free service
    Patent number: 6058177
    Abstract: An apparatus for selecting telephone service types on a subscriber line in response to a called number of a telephone call on the subscriber line, the called number including a number plan area code and a central office code. The apparatus includes a service switching point having subscriber line termination equipment for terminating the subscriber telephone line. The subscriber line termination equipment has a called number buffer for receiving and storing a called telephone number from the subscriber telephone line in response to the telephone call on the subscriber telephone line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Alexander Newcombe, Slobodanka Dundjreovic Vidakovic