Patents by Inventor Nathan Lynn Peacock

Nathan Lynn Peacock 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).

  • Text-to-speech driven annunciation of caller identification
    Patent number: 6108630
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing an audio tag in response to calling line identification information. The method includes the steps of, receiving calling line identification information from a telephone line, searching a directory, using at least some of the calling line identification information as a search parameter to locate a directory record corresponding to at least some of the calling line identification information, communicating information held in the directory record or in the calling line identification information to a text to speech converter to produce the audio tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Augustines Kuechler, Robert Barrie Turnbull, Nathan Lynn Peacock