The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2006
Applicants:
David Bruce Platzer, Garden Ridge, TX (US);
Eric K. Weeren, Garland, TX (US);
Inventors:
David Bruce Platzer, Garden Ridge, TX (US);
Eric K. Weeren, Garland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04M 3/533 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/51 (2013.01); H04M 3/42374 (2013.01); H04M 3/53325 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide techniques and apparatus that may be used to distribute services in a telephone system. Utilizing these techniques, functions conventionally centralized and requiring a separate server may be distributed to end units, for example, as instances of such applications running on network telephones. Examples of such functions include, but are not limited to, auto attendant functions, distributed voice mail functions, and operator functions.