Lester Lynn White

US Patent:

6466928, Oct 15, 2002

Filed:

Dec 31, 1996

Appl. No.:

08/777593

Inventors:

Kelly Ann Blasko - Pittsboro NC
Lester Lynn White - Raleigh NC
Walden Blaine Crabtree - Wendell NC
Tony Michael ODriscoll - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

Nortel Networks Limited - St. Laurent

International Classification:

G06N 500

US Classification:

706 46, 707505

Abstract:

Disclosed are apparatus and methods for evaluating a business proposal in which a computer is used to perform the steps of presenting questions regarding the business proposal, using information gathered from responses to these questions to determine a score for the proposal, and then providing this information and score for evaluation of the proposal.

US Patent:

20030095643, May 22, 2003

Filed:

Jun 1, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/323553

Inventors:

PETER A. FORTMAN - RALEIGH NC, US
LESTER L. WHITE - RALEIGH NC, US
THOMAS KREDO - ROCHESTER NY, US

International Classification:

H04M001/64
H04M011/00

US Classification:

379/088140, 379/088120

Abstract:

A messaging center, connected to a communications network, processes messages intended for a subscriber. A caller sends a message to the message center in a first caller format. The message center stores the message in the first caller format, notifies the subscriber, and awaits a request for the stored message from the subscriber. In response to the message request, the message center sends the stored message to the subscriber in a first subscriber format independent of the first caller format. If the subscriber desires, the subscriber constructs a response to the message and sends it to the message center in a second subscriber format independent of the first caller format and the first subscriber format. The message center stores the response in the second subscriber format and sends the stored response to the caller in a second caller format independent of the first caller format and the first and second subscriber formats.

US Patent:

52630846, Nov 16, 1993

Filed:

Jul 22, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/733027

Inventors:

Guy J. Chaput - Ontario, CA
Suzanne D. White - Ottawa, CA
Dana A. Merrill - Raleigh NC
William D. Sawyer - Chapel Hill NC
Lester L. White - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

Northern Telecom Limited - Montreal

International Classification:

H04M 342
H04M 156
H04M 1506

US Classification:

379215

Abstract:

An enhanced telephony call waiting feature is provided wherein identifying information related to a third party wishing to converse with a first party already engaged in a conversation with a second party is spontaneously provided to the first party. The method comprises the steps of the local office sending a call waiting tone having predetermined characteristics to the first party and its apparatus responding thereto by muting its associated handset for a predetermined interval of time. The local office then transmits the identification data relating to the third party and the first party apparatus receives and displays to the first party the identification information related to the third party thereby allowing the first party to either accept or reject the waiting call in the conventional manner but also based on the displayed information.

US Patent:

59871008, Nov 16, 1999

Filed:

Apr 23, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/841516

Inventors:

Peter A. Fortman - Raleigh NC
Lester L. White - Raleigh NC
Thomas Kredo - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Northern Telecom Limited

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 8814

Abstract:

A messaging center, connected to a communications network, processes messages intended for a subscriber. A caller sends a message to the message center in a first caller format. The message center stores the message in the first caller format, notifies the subscriber, and awaits a request for the stored message from the subscriber. In response to the message request, the message center sends the stored message to the subscriber in a first subscriber format independent of the first caller format. If the subscriber desires, the subscriber constructs a response to the message and sends it to the message center in a second subscriber format independent of the first caller format and the first subscriber format. The message center stores the response in the second subscriber format and sends the stored response to the caller in a second caller format independent of the first caller format and the first and second subscriber formats.

US Patent:

58781226, Mar 2, 1999

Filed:

Feb 7, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/797244

Inventors:

Lester Lynn White - Raleigh NC
Harminder Singh - Raleigh NC
Peter A. Fortman - Raleigh NC

Assignee:

Northern Telecom Limited - Quebec

International Classification:

H04M 1500

US Classification:

379115

Abstract:

A long distance service bureau assists subscribers in selecting a long distance carrier for a long distance, or tariff, call. The long distance service bureau includes a rate table memory and a service logic element. The rate table memory stores rate data, representing tolls charged by various long distance carriers, and subscriber preference data, representing a subscriber's preferences for certain ones of the various long distance carriers. The service logic element controls the rate table memory. The service logic element periodically communicates with the various long distance carriers to retrieve rate data changes, stores the rate data changes in the rate table memory, and downloads only the rate data changes to local equipment of the subscriber during idle periods of the subscriber's local equipment.