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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2012
Applicants:

John H Yoakum, Cary, NC (US);

Philip Edholm, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Inventors:

John H Yoakum, Cary, NC (US);

Philip Edholm, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rockstar Consortium US LP, Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/56 (2006.01); H04M 1/247 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 1/57 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/2473 (2013.01); H04M 1/57 (2013.01); H04M 7/0012 (2013.01); Y10S 379/903 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention allows for dynamic association of a computational device, such as a personal computer or personal digital assistant, with a telephone terminal. A computer-telephone adaptor or like function implemented in a telephony switch or other telephony device will receive authentication indicia. The authentication indicia may be provided by the computational device that is to be associated with the telephone terminal, or through other means. The authentication indicia may be provided by a user or generated by the computational device or by other means. To confirm the association, the user must enter confirmatory authentication indicia corresponding to the original authentication indicia through the telephone terminal.


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