Patents by Inventor Steve Lavelle

Steve Lavelle 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 recording telephone calls
    Publication number: 20030147509
    Abstract: A method for recording a telephone call is described, and which includes, providing a telephone; providing a personal computer; providing a telephone signal and bifurcating the telephone signal into a first signal path which is supplied to the telephone, and a second signal path which is supplied to the personal computer; creating and storing a computer file by the personal computer which represents the telephone signal; and sending the file created by the personal computer to a remote server for storage and archive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventor: Steve LaVelle
  • Dynamic range reduction using mode filter
    Patent number: 4815805
    Abstract: A mode filter for reducing a dynamic range of a write optical fiber bus which utilizes taps which initially inject optical signals into an optical fiber which have intensities skewed towards higher order modes rather than lower order modes as compared to equilibrium for the fiber functions to preferentially attenuate outermost modes rather than lowermost modes in the fiber so as to reduce a required dynamic range for an optical receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1989
    Assignee: Raychem Corp.
    Inventors: Frank H. Levinson, Steve Lavelle, Thomas E. Giles, Joseph Zucker, Bruce D. Campbell