Patents by Inventor Kristi Crum

Kristi Crum 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: 8775532
    Abstract: A system synchronizes digital messages from one user's multiple digital message accounts into one mailbox. The user identifies the message accounts from which digital messages are to be aggregated. When a new digital message arrives for one of the message accounts, a server providing the message-dependent storage sends an arrival notification to a synchronization system, or is accessed by the synchronization system at various points to check for message arrival, when notification is not forthcoming. Upon determining the arrival of a new digital message, the synchronization system retrieves the new digital message(s) and stores the retrieved message(s) in an integrated mailbox provided by the synchronization system, so that messages from various digital message accounts are collected into the integrated mailbox. This allows the user to manipulate messages in each of the individual accounts using the integrated mailbox without having to access the various accounts individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, Damodaram Bashyam, Kristi Crum
  • Publication number: 20070245263
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and systems for performing a variety of native and non-native tasks with a wireless device employing a user-configurable graphical user interface. In one exemplary embodiment, the graphical user interface can be envisioned as a very wide screen composed of segments, with only one segment of the very wide screen displayed on the wireless device at any given time. The user can view other segments of the very wide screen by using the device keypad to move left and right within the very wide screen. Each segment is composed of one or more independent modular interface components that are associated with tasks, both native and non-native, that can be performed by the wireless device. Related embodiments are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: ALLTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mason Hale, Denise Burton, Bryan Walker, Erin Jacobs, Dwayne Stoltz, Mahin Samadini, Laura Richardson, Scott Moody, Kristi Crum