Patents by Inventor Robert Barrie Turnbull

Robert Barrie Turnbull 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).

  • Teleconferencing device with readily adaptive support
    Patent number: 11895258
    Abstract: A teleconferencing device with an easily removable support stand allows users to easily change the angle of the device on a desk. Wall-mounts hidden within the removable stand allow the device to be mounted easily to a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: George Janour, Robert Barrie Turnbull, Bowman Wang
  • TELECONFERENCING DEVICE WITH READILY ADAPTIVE SUPPORT
    Publication number: 20220303378
    Abstract: A teleconferencing device with an easily removable support stand allows users to easily change the angle of the device on a desk. Wall-mounts hidden within the removable stand allow the device to be mounted easily to a wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: George JANOUR, Robert Barrie TURNBULL, Bowman WANG
  • 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
  • Flexible, tapeless, personalized auto-attendant telephone
    Patent number: 5892814
    Abstract: A method of operating a subscriber terminal to provide a flexible tapeless personalized auto-attendant telephone by means of measuring ring cadence of an incoming telephone call; and selecting one outgoing message in response to the ring cadence and playing it after a predetermined number of rings. The method also provides for the selection of group greetings and mailboxes automatically, for example, based on CLID and name match in a directory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: Michel Joseph A. Brisebois, Robert Barrie Turnbull
  • Method and apparatus for removing FSK in-band signaling
    Patent number: 5768367
    Abstract: A circuit for use with a SCWID adjunct to remove A.C. in-band signaling tones from the voice path to a telephone apparatus serially connected to the adjunct. The A.C. signal component is carried on top of the D.C. voltage used to power the telephone. The circuit includes means to monitor the D.C. voltage level and to pass this voltage substantially unchanged to the telephone. The A.C. signal in the form of a FSK tone, received from the central office, is used by the adjunct to provide a subscriber with call feature information such as the identity of a calling party while the telephone is off-hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventors: David Jeffrey Westergaard, Robert Barrie Turnbull, Timothy Augustus Kuechler, Aaron James Bobick