Patents by Inventor Theodore Leon Griggs

Theodore Leon Griggs 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).

  • Patent number: 9609138
    Abstract: The subject matter herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are sent to the voice mailbox owners in a text format, such as a short message service text message, email, or other text based service. These and other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: BT Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore Leon Griggs, Christopher Michael Waters, Dan Seyer, Peter X. Leong
  • Publication number: 20130094632
    Abstract: The subject matter herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are sent to the voice mailbox owners in a text format, such as a short message service text message, email, or other text based service. These and other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Ribbit Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore Leon Griggs, Christopher Michael Waters, Dan Seyer, Peter X. Leong
  • Patent number: 8155281
    Abstract: The subject mater herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are sent to the voice mailbox owners in a text format, such as a short message service text message, email, or other text based service. These and other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Ribbit Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore Leon Griggs, Christopher Michael Waters, Dan Seyer, Peter X Leong
  • Publication number: 20080317222
    Abstract: The subject mater herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are sent to the voice mailbox owners in a text format, such as a short message service text message, email, or other text based service. These and other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Theodore Leon Griggs, Christopher Michael Waters, Dan Seyer, Peter X. Leong
  • Publication number: 20020122429
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to dynamically change the quality of service level of a transmission over a network is disclosed. The method and apparatus each have a management unit that receives level of quality of service requests from user input devices coupled to network gateways, and commands a changed quality of service level for a call according to each request. In an embodiment, a billing application is coupled to the management unit in application and the management unit sends to the billing application data indicating the changed quality of service level of the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventor: Theodore Leon Griggs