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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:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
May. 20, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eric Bierman, Ottawa, CA;
Ernst August Munter, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 9323 ; 379142 ;
Abstract
A system for displaying graphic information such as a facial representation on a communications terminal. The facial representation is digitized, compressed and stored in memory at the appropriate control center of a communications network. Upon receipt of a display command the digitized data is retrieved from memory and transmitted to the called party's display terminal using modem technology.