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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
May. 25, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Wesley Cohrs, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Donald Marion Keen, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379374 ; 379373 ; 379 76 ; 379142 ; 379388 ; 379410 ;
Abstract
A telephone ringing system in which one or more user-selected sound segments are received using the microphone portion of a telecommunications instrument, stored in digital or analog form, and audibly reproduced using the loudspeaker portion of the telecommunications instrument when a ring signal is detected to provide a distinctive, personalized indication of an incoming call.