Patents by Inventor John C. Skinner

John C. Skinner 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: 8036362
    Abstract: A call management system enables each of multiple prospective callers to specify how to forward (e.g., direct or redirect) future calls to one or more target phone devices or users. For example, each of multiple persons provide call forwarding configuration information to the call management system. Upon initiation of a call by a user, the call management system intercepts and forwards a user's call in accordance with call forwarding configuration information previously provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: RNK Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Skinner
  • Patent number: 4836768
    Abstract: A body having a substrate surface which comprises corrodible material and on which substrate surface is present a coherent protective layer of an anti-corrosion composition which comprises a solid matrix of electrical conductivity .gtoreq.10.sup.-6 mho cm.sup.-1 and formed by reaction between at least water-soluble Bronsted acid and at least one Lewis base in which matrix is incorporated an elemental metal, or an alloy thereof, the matrix and metal being effective in service as electrolyte and sacrificial anode, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: National Research Development Corporation
    Inventors: Alan D. Wilson, Havard J. Prosser, Anthony J. Dunsdon, John C. Skinner, Pauline J. Brookman