Patents by Inventor William Corey Howard

William Corey Howard 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).

  • Method and apparatus of applying call suppression measures to restrict phone calls
    Patent number: 9197747
    Abstract: A determination of whether to perform telephone call blocking includes initiating a telephone call from a call server, determining whether the call is a solicitation call and determining the area code of the call and performing a lookup operation of the area code in a call suppression database. The process may also include retrieving a call block entry for a current day from the call suppression database, and comparing the area code to the call block entry for the current day to determine whether the call should be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Rebekah Johnson, Baron Morvant, William Corey Howard
  • Method and apparatus of applying call suppression measures to restrict phone calls
    Patent number: 8903071
    Abstract: A determination of whether to perform telephone call blocking includes initiating a telephone call from a call server, determining whether the call is a solicitation call and determining the area code of the call and performing a lookup operation of the area code in a call suppression database. The process may also include retrieving a call block entry for a current day from the call suppression database, and comparing the area code to the call block entry for the current day to determine whether the call should be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Rebekah Johnson, Baron Morvant, William Corey Howard
  • Method and apparatus of applying call suppression measures to restrict phone calls
    Patent number: 8681967
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining whether to perform telephone call blocking. One example method of operation provides initiating a telephone call from a call server, determining whether the call is a solicitation call and determining the area code of the call and performing a lookup operation of the area code in a call suppression database. The method may also include retrieving a call block entry for a current day from the call suppression database, and comparing the area code to the call block entry for the current day to determine whether the call should be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Rebekah Johnson, Baron Morvant, William Corey Howard