Patents by Inventor Theodore Homer Vagelos

Theodore Homer Vagelos 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 providing combined communication services including local service and toll service
    Patent number: 5905791
    Abstract: An interexchange carrier (IXC) switch and an associated database route qualified calls dialed to local service provider (LSP) subscribers onto interconnecting facilitiies with local access settlement rates, thereby allowing a local rather than toll cost structure. The IXC switch and associated database operate with existing toll features including those features which translate a private dialed number into a public number. The IXC switch and associated database classify the call into a jurisdictional classification from a customer billing and feature application perspective, and from a routing perspective independent of the customer billing and feature application classification. The jurisdictional classification can include, example, local, toll, interLATA toll or intraLATA toll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Anurag Goel, Nadine A. Guillaume, Leticia Garcia Johnson, Robert Yaeger Peters Jr., Theodore Homer Vagelos, Walter Paul Zahray