Patents by Inventor John F. Ashley

John F. Ashley 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).

  • Method and system for transmitting a message to a telephone station
    Patent number: 7233652
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed transmitting a message to a telephone station. Different routing strings are used to establish calls between different network elements, based on the location of the network elements with respect to one another. Different time delay periods are associated with the different routing strings so as to offset any differences in the time needed to setup the systems for the transmission of a message to a telephone station. This enables messages to effectively transmitted to the telephone stations so that they are complete and not cutoff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Ameritech Corp.
    Inventors: Susanne Marie Crockett, Thomas Joseph McBlain, John F. Ashley, Casandra A. Wallace, Timothy Gabriel Cannon
  • Method and system for transmitting a message to a telephone station
    Publication number: 20030043987
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed transmitting a message to a telephone station. Different routing strings are used to establish calls between different network elements, based on the location of the network elements with respect to one another. Different time delay periods are associated with the different routing strings so as to offset any differences in the time needed to setup the systems for the transmission of a message to a telephone station. This enables messages to effectively transmitted to the telephone stations so that they are complete and not cutoff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Susanne Marie Crockett, Thomas Joseph McBlain, John F. Ashley, Casandra A. Wallace, Timothy Gabriel Cannon