Patents by Inventor Tony H. Kim

Tony H. Kim 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: 20120039455
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to communications, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing a phone domain name service. In one embodiment, the invention includes a phone domain name service configured to performing the operations including receiving a phone address, the phone address comprising a phone name associated with a phone domain name; receiving a location, the location comprising a latitudinal coordinate and a longitudinal coordinate; accessing a database for the phone domain name, the database for the phone domain name comprising one or more phone names and locations corresponding to one or more phone numbers; and retrieving a phone number corresponding to the phone name or location from the database for the phone domain name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Yeonchul Kim, Tony H. Kim
  • Publication number: 20120027190
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing a phone name service. In one embodiment, the invention includes a software application, the software application configured to perform the steps comprising receiving a phone name; receiving a phone number; and storing the phone number in association with the phone name, wherein the software application is associated with a computer readable media. In one particular embodiment, the phone name is alphanumerical. In a further particular embodiment, the alphanumerical phone name is an email address. In a further embodiment, the software application is further configured to perform the steps comprising receiving a request for the phone number using the phone name; retrieving the phone number associated with the phone name; and communicating the phone number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Yeonchul Kim, Tony H. Kim
  • Publication number: 20100254523
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to communications, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing a phone domain name service. In one embodiment, the invention includes a phone domain name service configured to performing the operations including receiving a phone address, the phone address comprising a phone name associated with a phone domain name; accessing a database for the phone domain name, the database for the phone domain name comprising one or more phone names corresponding to one or more phone numbers; and retrieving a phone number corresponding to the phone name from the database for the phone domain name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Yeonchul Kim, Tony H. Kim
  • Publication number: 20100254524
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for providing a phone name service. In one embodiment, the invention includes a software application, the software application configured to perform the steps comprising receiving a phone name; receiving a phone number; and storing the phone number in association with the phone name, wherein the software application is associated with a computer readable media. In one particular embodiment, the phone name is alphanumerical. In another particular embodiment, the alphanumerical phone name is not limited to a length of the phone number. In a further particular embodiment, the alphanumerical phone name is not limited to characters corresponding to digit keys of the phone number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Yeonchul Kim, Tony H. Kim