Donald A Weber

US Patent:

8379813, Feb 19, 2013

Filed:

Jun 29, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/771009

Inventors:

Donald J. Weber - Shrewsbury NJ, US
Daniel T. Smires - Freehold NJ, US

Assignee:

Vonage Network LLC - Holmdel NJ

International Classification:

H04M 15/00
H04M 11/00

US Classification:

37911415, 379 9302, 3791142, 380 44, 726 20, 726 35

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for authorizing a calling card telephone call are described. In one example, a telephone calling card includes a planar body having a memory system, an input circuit, a controller, and a display. The memory system is configured to store key code information. The input circuit is configured to receive a personal identification number (PIN). The controller is configured to derive a key code from the key code information using the PIN. The display is configured to present the key code. The user may then use the key code for purposes of authorizing a call made using a calling card. The key code may change from time-to-time as the user uses the calling card. Since the user's PIN is not entered into a telephone by the user, the calling card is less susceptible to unauthorized and/or fraudulent use by third parties.

US Patent:

47076895, Nov 17, 1987

Filed:

Mar 25, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/715278

Inventors:

Philip S. DiPiazza - Morganville NJ
Dale E. Lynn - Freehold NJ
Donald J. Weber - Shrewsbury NJ

International Classification:

G09G 116

US Classification:

340706

Abstract:

The sensitivity of an optically-based touch screen is substantially impro by adaptively establishing the detection threshold based on the peak trapped light measured over a number of frames on the screen being painted. In accordance with one feature of the invention, the peak trapped light from a target area painted on the screen is compared with a priorly established threshold as a way of determining that a target area is being touched by the user. In accordance with another feature of the invention, the threshold is modified in a way that compensates for possible erroneous touch indications due, for example, to bright spots on the screen.

US Patent:

42439760, Jan 6, 1981

Filed:

Mar 12, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/019545

Inventors:

Richard C. Warner - Morris Plains NJ
Donald J. Weber - North Caldwell NJ

Assignee:

The Singer Company - Little Falls NJ

International Classification:

H03K 1324

US Classification:

340347DD

Abstract:

A device for converting ternary-coded electrical pulse trains into binary-coded pulse trains, by interrupting a binary zero-rate data stream, representing one ternary condition, to supply an output voltage or no output voltage, representing the other ternary conditions.

US Patent:

55398030, Jul 23, 1996

Filed:

Sep 9, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/304026

Inventors:

Ghanshyam A. Bhat - Holmdel NJ
Arthur F. Corvo - Middletown NJ
Gerard W. Elson - Basking Ridge NJ
Donato J. Forlenzo - Manahawkin NJ
Douglas P. Greeley - Littleton CO
Richard Y. Hsia - Holmdel NJ
Vandy W. Lee - Middletown NJ
Frank W. Lescinsky - Middletown NJ
Thorp Rivingston - Red Bank NJ
Donald J. Weber - Shrewsbury NJ

Assignee:

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 124
H04M 1100
H04Q 700
H04B 1700

US Classification:

375 21

Abstract:

A cordless telephone set advantageously includes a wireless test mode accessible by a user for evaluating performance levels of operating parameters in the cordless telephone set in diverse geographical locations. When configured in a normal operating mode, the cordless telephone set provides normal wireless communications. When configured in the wireless test mode, the cordless telephone set provides audible and visual input to its user for use in determining a maximum acceptable separation distance for satisfactory communications between a telephone handset unit and its associated base unit in the cordless telephone set. This operating range determination for the cordless telephone set is achieved by providing a simulation of a recognizable tone, such as dial tone, to which a user subjectively listens while testing an application environment. At the same time, statistical readings of signal strength and voice quality also are provided in a display on the telephone handset unit while in this wireless test mode. The simulated tone and the statistical readings allow the user to quickly and easily correlate effective, usable operating range for the cordless telephone set.

US Patent:

43543936, Oct 19, 1982

Filed:

Jun 30, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/164551

Inventors:

Robert H. Acker - Packanack Lake NJ
Frank L. Rosen - Parsippany NJ
Donald J. Weber - North Caldwell NJ

Assignee:

The Singer Company - Little Falls NJ

International Classification:

G01C 1910

US Classification:

74 537

Abstract:

Electrical and mechanical synchronization of two or more synchronously driven gyroscopes, mounted on the same platform, to minimize cross-talk induced drift, is achieved by bringing one gyroscope to a speed which is slightly higher than the other by driving it at a slightly higher frequency. At speed, coincidence of mechanical position is established by means of signals from pick-offs on each gyro and the drive for the faster gyroscope is shifted to the lower frequency. Electrical synchronism is established by restarting the lower frequency generator to instantaneously establish a predetermined relationship between a pick-off signal and the frequency generator. Phase-lock start-up of a single gyroscope by instantaneous shift of the phase of the driving voltage, relative to the gyroscope wheel position, is also provided.