Patents by Inventor Marcellin Akpa

Marcellin Akpa 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).

  • Remote notification control in wireless communication device
    Patent number: 6161021
    Abstract: A communications system allows the user of a wireless communications device to prioritize the incoming communications by the source of the incoming communications such that even when the user disables the notification function of the wireless communications device, the user is contemporaneously alerted of certain incoming communications having predetermined priority assigned thereto. The user of wireless telecommunications device is notified of incoming communication which the user has designated with high level priority even when the user has disabled the notification function of the wireless communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Marcellin A. Akpa
  • Multi-language display keypad
    Patent number: 5914676
    Abstract: A mobile phone keypad having a plurality of special function keys each of which is provided with an LCD screen for displaying the function of the key in one of a plurality of languages. The display data for the LCD screens is stored in a PROM and a microprocessor reads out the display data in a selected language for all of the function keys at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Marcellin Akpa