Patents by Inventor Walter Howe

Walter Howe 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: 20080057965
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based local access directory number (994, 996). An originating switching node (810) recognizes the local access directory number (994, 996) as an AIN trigger, and thereafter identifies a signaling node (820) that is associated with the dialed local access DN (994, 996). The signaling node (820) sends a location request that includes the local access DN (994, 996) to an HLR (130). The HLR (130) obtains the wireless DN (982) from an internal database (990) in which the wireless DN (982) is associated with the local access DN (994, 996). The HLR (130) utilizes the wireless DN (982) to receive a temporary local directory number (TLDN) from visitor location register (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: GTE Wireless Incorporated
    Inventor: Walter Howe
  • Publication number: 20080051082
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based local access directory number (994, 996). An originating switching node (810) recognizes the local access directory number (994, 996) as an AIN trigger, and thereafter identifies a signaling node (820) that is associated with the dialed local access DN (994, 996). The signaling node (820) sends a location request that includes the local access DN (994, 996) to an HLR (130). The HLR (130) obtains the wireless DN (982) from an internal database (990) in which the wireless DN (982) is associated with the local access DN (994, 996). The HLR (130) utilizes the wireless DN (982) to receive a temporary local directory number (TLDN) from visitor location register (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: GTE Wireless Incorporated
    Inventor: Walter Howe
  • Publication number: 20060277304
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reporting to subscribers, wireless network events in a plurality of formats and languages depending upon the particular subscriber group to which a wireless subscriber belongs. When a subscriber requests a call, a switching node in the network invokes a trigger that identifies a location register for routing the call and sends a route request to the location register. While processing the route request, if the location register detects an event that would prevent the call from being routed, the location register identifies the subscriber group of the wireless subscriber and determines a directory number associated with the identified subscriber group and the detected event. The location register then returns the determined directory number to the switching node. Using the determined directory number, the switching node establishes the call to a message node, where a message associated with the determined directory number is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventor: Walter Howe
  • Publication number: 20050221863
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based local access directory number (994, 996). An originating switching node (810) recognizes the local access directory number (994, 996) as an AIN trigger, and thereafter identifies a signaling node (820) that is associated with the dialed local access DN (994, 996). The signaling node (820) sends a location request that includes the local access DN (994, 996) to an HLR (130). The HLR (130) obtains the wireless DN (982) from an internal database (990) in which the wireless DN (982) is associated with the local access DN (994, 996). The HLR (130) utilizes the wireless DN (982) to receive a temporary local directory number (TLDN) from visitor location register (140).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventor: Walter Howe
  • Publication number: 20050213604
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for communicating data from wireline terminals to mobile terminals in a telecommunications network, which includes a home node associated with the mobile terminal and one or more visited nodes. To establish communication with a mobile terminal, a wireline terminal sends data to a server in the telecommunications network. The server identifies a mobile identification number associated with the mobile terminal, and based on the identified mobile identification number, the server determines a route that excludes the home node when the mobile terminal is out of the geographical area served by the home node. The server then establishes via the determined route a connection to the mobile terminal and sends to the mobile terminal the data received from the wireline terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventor: Walter Howe
  • Patent number: 4054605
    Abstract: This application covers compounds of the formula: ##STR1## where R is hydrogen or alkanol, R.sub.1 is alkanol and R.sub.2 is octadienyl or decadienyl; ##STR2## where R.sub.3 is alkyl and R.sub.4 is alkylene; and ##STR3## where R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 are selected from the group consisting of (a) alkanol; (b) --R.sub.4 -- O -- R.sub.2 ; (c) (--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O--).sub.x R.sub.2 ; and ##STR4## where R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 are as defined above, x has an average value of 1-50, and the group (b), (c) or (d) occurs in at least one occurrence of R.sub.5 R.sub.6 or R.sub.7.Also covers a method of preparing the above compounds by reacting the precursor amino alcohols with a C.sub.4 or C.sub.5 diene compound in presence of a palladium catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Assignee: Texaco Development Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis William Watts, Jr., Walter Howe Brader, Jr.