Patents by Inventor Graham French

Graham French 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: 9639860
    Abstract: A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: Lei Bramley, Russell Bulmer, Andrew Tiller, Neil Pepper, Graham French, Owen Day
  • Publication number: 20150242904
    Abstract: A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Lei BRAMLEY, Russell BULMER, Andrew TILLER, Neil PEPPER, Graham FRENCH, Owen DAY
  • Patent number: 9021060
    Abstract: A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Critical Path Data Limited
    Inventors: Lei Bramley, Russell Bulmer, Andrew Tiller, Neil Pepper, Graham French, Owen Day
  • Patent number: 8270961
    Abstract: A mobile telephone can be configured to interact with external services by using a client application on the telephone that interacts with several external services via an intermediary server. The server sends, to the mobile telephone, configuration information to enable or disable defined sets of functionality in the application, the configuration information depending on and appropriate to the particular external service selected on the mobile telephone and being sent automatically to the mobile telephone over-the-air. An implementation of the invention enables a single client application on the mobile telephone to automatically configure features on / off, and modify the terminology used in resources (such as menus, text strings, bitmap images, sounds, sonic effects etc.) depending on the external system or service that the client is connected to via the intermediary server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Critical Path Data Centre Limited
    Inventors: Russell Bulmer, Graham French, Neil Pepper, Stephen Rogers, Adam Connors, Lei Bramley, Andrew Tiller
  • Publication number: 20100094703
    Abstract: A user interacts with content received from a remote server; content (e.g. feeds from social networking sites, advertisements) is received over a wireless network at a mobile telephone, which then automatically displays a specific item of the content on the mobile telephone, without the user explicitly requesting the display of that specific item of content. In response to the user selecting or highlighting the displayed specific item of content, the mobile telephone lists multiple options that, if individually selected, each initiate an associated action that corresponds to a particular way of responding to or interacting with the specific item of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Shozu Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Bramley, Russell Bulmer, Andrew Tiller, Neil Pepper, Graham French, Owen Day
  • Publication number: 20090221269
    Abstract: A mobile telephone can be configured to interact with external services by using a client application on the telephone that interacts with several external services via an intermediary server. The server sends, to the mobile telephone, configuration information to enable or disable defined sets of functionality in the application, the configuration information depending on and appropriate to the particular external service selected on the mobile telephone and being sent automatically to the mobile telephone over-the-air. An implementation of the invention enables a single client application on the mobile telephone to automatically configure features on/off, and modify the terminology used in resources (such as menus, text strings, bitmap images, sounds, sonic effects etc.) depending on the external system or service that the client is connected to via the intermediary server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: SHOZU LTD.
    Inventors: Russell Bulmer, Graham French, Neil Pepper, Stephen Rogers, Adam Connors, Lei Bramley, Andrew Tiller
  • Patent number: 6349334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a management method and a management system for managing a telecommunications network. The system comprises a database including information about the managed network, said information being in the form of objects that relate to the network elements to be managed and in the form of references between the different objects, said references indicating the dependencies between the objects. To provide a rapidly operating system in which arbitrary circular dependencies between the objects can easily be coped with to decide when an object can be unlocked to allow any part of the system to change said object, an auxiliary data structure that has no cyclic dependencies between its objects is added to the system and this auxiliary data structure is utilized to decide when an object can be unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Matthew Faupel, Graham French
  • Patent number: 6222827
    Abstract: A system for managing a telecommunications network comprises a core part storing all objects used by the system as master copies, and at least one peripheral part containing applications stored in the user workstation, through which applications the services of the system are offered to the user, each peripheral part having separately stored copies of objects used by the applications of the peripheral part concerned. The actions made by an application and the changes resulting from said actions are recorded, and an indication of the actions is transmitted from the application to the core part. When the network to be managed sends an indication of a change, the indication is transmitted to those applications that have copies of the objects to which the change relates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Colin Grant, Matthew Faupel, Graham French, David Bending, Phil Heighes
  • Patent number: 6070188
    Abstract: In a system for managing a telecommunications network the transmission network to be managed is connected to the management system by means of interface processes in such a way that devices used in the network are classified into different device categories (MD, SXC, SDH), the system comprising for each device category an interface process (IPI-IP3) which converts a device belonging to the concerned device category so that it appears, as viewed from the direction of the management system, as a generic basic device corresponding to a device represented by corresponding objects within the management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Telecommunications Oy
    Inventors: Colin Grant, Matthew Faupel, Graham French, Paivi Teriaho