Patents by Inventor Matthew J. Bonness

Matthew J. Bonness 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 apparatus for making sidebar calls
    Patent number: 7634074
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conducting a sidebar, subconference call from a multiparty conference call is provided. Once a party has joined a multiparty conference call, the party is able to initiate the subconference call by transmitting a session initiation protocol (SIP) command to a target party. Two SIP commands that may be employed to initiate the subconference call are the REFER command and the INVITE command. To allow the target party to distinguish between incoming communication requests related to the multiparty conference call from extraneous ones, the REFER or INVITE command includes at least one data field containing an identifier of the conference call referred the REFER or INVITE command. Once received and verified, the target party may respond accordingly to establish the subconference call. The target party's handset may reference data fields in the SIP command to those locally stored and known to be associated with the multiparty conference call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Coulas, Matthew J. Bonness, Valentin Oprescu-Surcobe