Patents by Inventor WILLIAM M. STORMS

WILLIAM M. STORMS 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).

  • DYNAMIC VIRTUAL PAGING METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20010011945
    Abstract: A caller (11) may communicate a message to a predetermined group of paging devices (141-14m) by entering a virtual Personal Identification Number associated with that group of devices, rather than a single actual device. Upon its receipt, a paging system (10) determines whether the caller-entered PIN constitutes a virtual PIN, and if so, then determines the paging devices within the associated group by accessing a database (28) containing such information. Once the predetermined group of paging devices is identified, the paging system communicates a caller-entered message thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventors: DAVID E. GILLILAND, WILLIAM M. STORMS, PAULETTE A. THOMPSON