Richard Edwin Graves

US Patent:

7069291, Jun 27, 2006

Filed:

Jun 14, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/172782

Inventors:

Richard C. Graves - Nashville TN, US
Song Liu - Richardson TX, US
Hua Lin - Windham NH, US

Assignee:

CopperCom, Inc. - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709201, 709202, 709217

Abstract:

Improved systems and methods for call and call feature setup, administration and processing on PSTN and other telecommunications networks are provided. Calls are set up on a service plane of a conceptual switch that includes a switch plane, control plane, and service plane that are analogous to the OSI layered model of networks including a physical layer, network layer and application layer. Call set-up logic is separated from the switching fabric, allowing for flexible, on-demand, modification of service options using software while maintaining the same switching fabric in hardware. Call set-up is accomplished by a call request made upon connection of a call to the switch. This causes a call agent to search an eXtensible Markup Language knowledge base to find a web page corresponding to the initiating caller. The Web page may be collocated with the switch or on a LAN with the switch or on the “Web,” even on the caller's termination equipment (telephone).

US Patent:

20160277999, Sep 22, 2016

Filed:

Mar 21, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/076368

Inventors:

Richard C. Graves - Nashville TN, US
Chris Blanz - Franklin TN, US
Beat Zenerino - Nashville TN, US
Kevin Huber - Nashville TN, US
Greg Thornton - Nashville TN, US

International Classification:

H04W 40/24
H04W 12/06
H04L 29/08

Abstract:

A mobile content management system includes a plurality of distributed beacon transmitters, each configured to continuously broadcast messages including a URL, the URL having a host domain address and an identifier unique to the respective beacon embedded therein. Client devices proximate to one or more of the beacons, and having appropriate browser applications executed thereon, are able to receive the broadcast messages and subsequently transmit content requests to the host server associated with the URL. The host server is further configured to identify the beacon from the unique identifier, and return an appropriate destination URL to the client device for user selection, at which point the browser may for example be redirected to a content server associated with the destination URL for content presentation. The system may further include a hosted and administrator-facing web portal wherein at least destination URLs associated with the respective beacons may be remotely designated.