Patents by Inventor Mariana Benitez Palaez

Mariana Benitez Palaez 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).

  • Multimedia half-duplex sessions with individual floor controls
    Patent number: 7283489
    Abstract: A method of managing a multimedia call session conducted over a communications network (10) is includes: receiving a request to set-up the multimedia session over the communications network (10), including a plurality of media types; and, establishing a separate single media session for each media type included in the request, the established sessions being between a plurality of participating terminals (40, 50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mariana Benitez Palaez, Anne Yin-Fee Lee, Stinson Samuel Mathai
  • Internet protocol enabled multimedia mail system with reduced bandwidth requirements
    Patent number: 7126938
    Abstract: In a multimedia communications system (100), a multimedia-based answering system (200) lowers the amount of air interface bandwidth used to send multimedia mail messages. When a called party is unavailable, a user of a user terminal (102) is given an option to send a multimedia mail message for the unavailable called party (300, 302, 304). If the user wants to send a multimedia mail message, the bandwidth requirements for the call are renegotiated to reduce bandwidth for sending the multimedia mail message (306). The multimedia mail message is then transmitted over-the-air to a multimedia mail system (208), where the multimedia mail message is buffered, transcoded (if necessary) and stored until the called party retrieves it (308, 310).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mariana Benitez Palaez, Anne Yin-Fee Lee, Stinson Samuel Mathai
  • Wireless mid-call transfers
    Patent number: 7024197
    Abstract: A method of transferring a call established between a first communications device and a second communications device from the second communications device to a third communications device. The method includes negotiating media description between the first communications device and the third communications device to establish a transferred call capable of handling media which can be different than that handled by the original call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Charu Verma, Mariana Benitez Palaez
  • Multimedia half-duplex sessions with individual floor controls
    Publication number: 20040190489
    Abstract: A method of managing a multimedia call session conducted over a communications network (10) is includes: receiving a request to set-up the multimedia session over the communications network (10), including a plurality of media types; and, establishing a separate single media session for each media type included in the request, the established sessions being between a plurality of participating terminals (40, 50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Mariana Benitez Palaez, Anne Yin-Fee Lee, Stinson Samuel Mathai