Patents by Inventor Richard HALL-SMITH

Richard HALL-SMITH 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).

  • DECT portable device base station
    Patent number: 11758037
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a base station (12) having a DECT communication module (13) for wirelessly communicating with one or more registered portable DECT devices 10). The base station also has a virtual assistant module connecting over an IP communication channel (28) to a virtual assistant providing responses to user instructions, and a telephony module connecting to and accessing a remote resource over a telephony communication channel (27). A device manager (15) identifies and stores communication parameters of the DECT devices, and can implement a user instruction communicated from a DECT device via the DECT communication module and can route virtual assistant responses to a user instruction. A broker module (19) establishes a communication link between the DECT devices and the virtual assistant, and between the DECT devices and the telephony communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MEIZHOU GUOWEI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Richard Hall-Smith, Hongbing Liu
  • Dect Portable Device Base Station
    Publication number: 20220131970
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a base station (12) having a DECT communication module (13) for wirelessly communicating with one or more registered portable DECT devices 10). The base station also has a virtual assistant module connecting over an IP communication channel (28) to a virtual assistant providing responses to user instructions, and a telephony module connecting to and accessing a remote resource over a telephony communication channel (27). A device manager (15) identifies and stores communication parameters of the DECT devices, and can implement a user instruction communicated from a DECT device via the DECT communication module and can route virtual assistant responses to a user instruction. A broker module (19) establishes a communication link between the DECT devices and the virtual assistant, and between the DECT devices and the telephony communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Richard HALL-SMITH, Hongbing LIU