Patents by Inventor Yair Gelfer

Yair Gelfer 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).

  • Phonebook
    Patent number: 6163596
    Abstract: A personalized directory including an identifier database which is constructed based on a user's set-up input and which is characterized in that it contains disparate types of identifiers which all have in common that they are used by the user to identify an entity during user set-up of the database and a user voice actuated search engine operative to search the identifier database and to provide an output indication related to the entity based on less than all of the disparate types of identifiers used to identify the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Hotas Holdings Ltd.
    Inventors: Yair Gelfer, Yoseph Otiker, Leon Eting
  • Apparatus and methods for conveying telephone numbers and other information via communication devices
    Patent number: 5651056
    Abstract: An accessory device for a telephone system, the device including a spoken telephone number recorder serving a local communicant, the recorder including a spoken telephone number recognizer operative to recognize a telephone number spoken in the course of a telephone conversation between a remote communicant and the local communicant, and a telephone number memory operative to store at least one telephone number received from said telephone number recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Inventors: Leon Eting, Yair Gelfer