Patents by Inventor Ian Catley

Ian Catley 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: 6856678
    Abstract: A method for updating call redirection destinations, in which a call redirection destination which has been changed by a user entry on a first subscriber terminal is stored for a second subscriber terminal, which forms a point of origin for a call redirection, in an associated memory together with the point of origin of the call redirection as call redirection information. The stored call redirection information is sent to a control unit associated with the second subscriber terminal. The control unit checks whether a call redirection indicated by the call redirection information has been set up. A call redirection is set up on the basis of the result of the check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ian Catley, Martin Gartner, Hans-Peter Vow Ow, Stefan Honold, Burkhard Speitkamp
  • Patent number: 6600819
    Abstract: A method is provided for implementing call acceptance groups extending between network nodes in a communications network having a plurality of network nodes. An arrival of a call for a terminal which is coupled to a first network node and has an assigned call acceptance group is also signaled to all of the other network nodes that are to be determined and to which terminals of the call acceptance group are coupled. The network nodes subsequently cause that information to be displayed at the terminals of the call acceptance group which are coupled to the network nodes, and permit the call to be accepted at each of those terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ian Catley, Georg Mayer, Robert Stampfl
  • Publication number: 20020009186
    Abstract: A method for call forwarding in a communications network in which a single first subscriber line and at least one second subscriber line provided for a call transfer originating from the first subscriber line are assigned to a call acceptance group. A call made to the first subscriber line is forwarded within the call acceptance group to the second subscriber line and/or is signaled there for call answering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Ian Catley, Martin Gartner, Hans-Peter Vow Ow, Stefan Honold
  • Publication number: 20020006189
    Abstract: A method for updating call redirection destinations, in which a call redirection destination which has been changed by a user entry on a first subscriber line is stored for a second subscriber line, which forms a point of origin for a call redirection, in an associated memory together with the point of origin of the call redirection as call redirection information. The stored call redirection information is sent to a control unit associated with the second subscriber line. The control unit checks whether a call redirection indicated by the call redirection information has been set up. A call redirection is set up on the basis of the result of the check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Ian Catley, Martin Gartner, Hans-Peter Vow Ow, Stefan Honold, Burkhard Speitkamp
  • Publication number: 20020001377
    Abstract: A method in which at least one memory, which is associated with at least one first subscriber connection, is used to store a cross-reference to a second subscriber connection whose state is signaled at the first subscriber connection. For allocation of the first subscriber connection to a first communications system and allocation of the second subscriber connection to a second communications system, the at least one first subscriber connection is allocated group information, and the group information is stored, for message compression, in a memory which is associated with the second subscriber connection. Furthermore, in the event of a state change of the second subscriber connection, a message relating to the state change is sent with the group information to the first communications system, for transmission of a message with information about the state change to the first subscriber connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Ian Catley, Martin Gartner, Hans-Peter Vow Ow, Wolfgang Fraas, Stefan Honold