Patents by Inventor Thomas Dundon

Thomas Dundon 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: 9843612
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call using PSTN and Internet networks is described. The method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call includes receiving voice from a PSTN client. The method also includes receiving voice data from a moderator and from at least one remote client connected to the Internet. The method then proceeds to mix the voice data from the PSTN client with the voice data from the moderator into a first mixed voice data that is transmitted to the remote client that is connected to the Internet. The method also mixes the voice data from the moderator with the voice data from the remote client connected to the Internet into a second mixed voice data that is transmitted to the PSTN client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: VPN MULTICAST TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dye, Thomas Dundon
  • Publication number: 20160112478
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call using PSTN and Internet networks is described. The method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call includes receiving voice from a PSTN client. The method also includes receiving voice data from a moderator and from at least one remote client connected to the Internet. The method then proceeds to mix the voice data from the PSTN client with the voice data from the moderator into a first mixed voice data that is transmitted to the remote client that is connected to the Internet. The method also mixes the voice data from the moderator with the voice data from the remote client connected to the Internet into a second mixed voice data that is transmitted to the PSTN client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Dye, Thomas Dundon
  • Patent number: 9253332
    Abstract: A system and method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call using PSTN and Internet networks is described. The method for supporting a multi-participant voice conference call includes receiving voice from a PSTN client. The method also includes receiving voice data from a moderator and from at least one remote client connected to the Internet. The method then proceeds to mix the voice data from the PSTN client with the voice data from the moderator into a first mixed voice data that is transmitted to the remote client that is connected to the Internet. The method also mixes the voice data from the moderator with the voice data from the remote client connected to the Internet into a second mixed voice data that is transmitted to the PSTN client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: VPN Multicast Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dye, Thomas Dundon
  • Patent number: 9094525
    Abstract: A multi-participant conference system and method is described. The multi-participant system includes a PSTN client, at least one remote client and a first participant client. The PSTN client communicates audio data and the remote clients communicate audio-video data. The first participant client includes a voice over IP (VoIP) encoder, a VoIP decoder, a first audio mixer, and a second audio mixer. The VoIP encoder compresses audio data transported to the PSTN client. The VoIP decoder then decodes audio data from the PSTN client. The first audio mixer mixes the decoded audio data from the PSTN client with the audio-video data from the first participant into a first mixed audio-video data stream transmitted to the remote client. The second audio mixer mixes the audio-video data stream from the first participant with the audio-video data stream from each remote client into a second mixed audio transmitted to the PSTN client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: VPN Multicast Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dye, Thomas Dundon
  • Patent number: 8958347
    Abstract: A multi-participant conference system and method is described. The multi-participant system includes a PSTN client, at least one remote client and a first participant client. The PSTN client communicates audio data and the remote clients communicate audio-video data. The first participant client includes a voice over IP (VoIP) encoder, a VoIP decoder, a first audio mixer, and a second audio mixer. The VoIP encoder compresses audio data transported to the PSTN client. The VoIP decoder then decodes audio data from the PSTN client. The first audio mixer mixes the decoded audio data from the PSTN client with the audio-video data from the first participant into a first mixed audio-video data stream transmitted to the remote client. The second audio mixer mixes the audio-video data stream from the first participant with the audio-video data stream from each remote client into a second mixed audio transmitted to the PSTN client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: VPN Multicast Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dye, Thomas Dundon
  • Patent number: 5819014
    Abstract: A printer architecture utilizing network resources to distribute printer controller and translator functions and thereby process several print jobs in parallel. The several print jobs can be transferred, in order of completion, to a print engine for a high speed real time printing operation, or stored as pre-rasterized images for subsequent access and delivery to the print engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Cyr, Thomas Dundon, Brian Manser, Carl E. Rehebein