Raymond Otto Colbert

US Patent:

20070253340, Nov 1, 2007

Filed:

Apr 28, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/413834

Inventors:

Douglas Varney - Naperville IL, US
Raymond Colbert - Naperville IL, US

International Classification:

H04J 1/16

US Classification:

370252000, 370401000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for reducing network resources from presence notification traffic. This invention assumes a standard presence architecture of presentities, watchers, and a presence server involved in pushing (notifying) watchers when a presentity's state changes. In addition, there exists a source of past communication data (or other data providing a means of prioritization) for a subscriber. The presence server determines, based upon the past communication data (or other prioritization data) of a subscriber, whether to notify about the presentity's state change immediately or to wait on notifying the watcher until either additional notify messages also need to be sent (and can be bundled in one message) or a guard timer expires. In this fashion, the presence information that the subscriber cares about is delivered in real time while the information that is less important to the subscriber consumes less network resources.

US Patent:

D3229629, Jan 7, 1992

Filed:

Sep 19, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/409567

Inventors:

Raymond O. Colbert - Naperville IL
James E. Oneby - Northlake IL
Eugene K. Sokolowski - Chicago IL

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

US Classification:

D14101

US Patent:

D3229610, Jan 7, 1992

Filed:

Sep 19, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/409535

Inventors:

Raymond O. Colbert - Naperville IL
James E. Oneby - Northlake IL
Eugene K. Sokolowski - Chicago IL

Assignee:

AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill NJ

US Classification:

D14101

US Patent:

54855101, Jan 16, 1996

Filed:

Sep 1, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/300096

Inventors:

Raymond O. Colbert - Naperville IL

Assignee:

AT&T Corp. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 1700
H04M 1100

US Classification:

379145

Abstract:

This invention relates to methods for making a credit/debit card purchase without revealing the card number to the vendor of services or goods. The card holder is connected to a data base and provides the card number, plus holder identity verification, to the data base. The data base then verifies whether the card holder is authorized to incur the expense of the purchase, and, if so, provides an authorization indication or code to the vendor; the card number cannot be derived from the authorization information, thus helping to preserve the secrecy of the card number.