Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Skala

Thomas E. Skala 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).

  • Publication number: 20220004994
    Abstract: An automated communication system, including a website template including a base website design including both functional internet and functional phone communication features, and executable machine-readable software instructions for automatically producing a customized website by using the base website design, user metadata from a user account, and media information, a network bridge functionally coupled to each of a network data system and a phone data system and thereby functionally coupling the network data system to the phone data system, a bridge controller functionally coupled to the website template and operatively coupled to the network bridge and that includes instructions for managing data transfer across the network bridge that permit control of the functional phone communication features via interaction with the customized website produced from the website template, and a user account module in communication with the bridge controller and that includes account information of system users on a dat
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas E. Skala
  • Publication number: 20130259028
    Abstract: A system and method of telephony integrated network communications over a computerized network. The system includes a registration module, a verification module, an account generation module, a transaction module, a security module, and a unification module, including a processor, in communication with the account generation module and configured to unify a received telephony number with a network service thereby generating a unified phone number. The method includes managing registration of a user, verifying registration data, generating an account associated with registration data, unifying a received telephony number with a network service thereby generating a unified phone number, and managing a transaction associated with an account having a unified phone number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Thomas E. Skala
  • Publication number: 20120253990
    Abstract: A system and method of facilitating communications between web-based and telephony networks, including the steps of: providing a web-based interface including selectable options for initiating communications between one or more web-based communication tools and one or more telephony based communication tools; providing access to a network bridge configured to bridge communications between a telephony network and a web-based network; automatically generating a web-based interface, in communication with the network bridge, from user account data for a user having telephony services; and initiating a communication between a web-based network and a telephony based network on receipt of a request from the automatically generated web-based interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Thomas E. Skala