Thomas Phelan

US Patent:

20210099559, Apr 1, 2021

Filed:

Sep 24, 2020

Appl. No.:

17/030476

Inventors:

- Nashua NH, US
Thomas R. Phelan - Hopkinton MA, US

International Classification:

H04M 1/02
G09F 13/22
G06Q 30/02

Abstract:

A system includes multiple in-room telephones (e.g., in the rooms of a hotel or the like) with integrated tablet-like touch displays in each one of multiple rooms, a computer-based server that is connected to the in-room telephones and interacts with the in-room telephones to provide configuration information to facilitate display of advertising information including, for example, logos, at the touch displays of the in-room telephones, and one or more computer control terminals connected to the computer-based server and operable to facilitate human control over various aspects of system operation including the advertising information displayed at the touch displays of the in-room telephones.

US Patent:

20170264539, Sep 14, 2017

Filed:

Mar 11, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/067648

Inventors:

- Portsmouth NH, US
Thomas R. Phelan - Hopkinton MA, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/721
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/26
H04M 7/00

Abstract:

A method is provided for improving voice quality of Voice over IP networks in which a highest-quality routing protocol is interposed between a local IP PBX exchange and a cloud-based Internet service provider server to which calls are to be routed, wherein the highest-quality routing protocol detects the quality of the voice channel between the local IP PBX exchange and cloud-based Internet service provider servers and routes voice calls to that cloud-based Internet service provider server exhibiting the highest voice call quality, with the highest voice quality server connection determined by detecting lost packets and packet delay between the local IP PBX exchange and a server.

US Patent:

20170264540, Sep 14, 2017

Filed:

Sep 7, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/258514

Inventors:

- Nashua NH, US
Thomas R. Phelan - Hopkinton MA, US

International Classification:

H04L 12/721
H04L 12/26
H04M 7/00

Abstract:

A method is provided for improving voice quality of Voice over IP networks in which a highest-quality routing protocol is interposed between a local IP PBX exchange and a cloud-based Internet service provider server to which calls are to be routed, wherein the highest-quality routing protocol detects the quality of the voice channel between the local IP PBX exchange and cloud-based Internet service provider servers and routes voice calls to that cloud-based Internet service provider server exhibiting the highest voice call quality, with the highest voice quality server connection determined by detecting lost packets and packet delay between the local IP PBX exchange and a server.