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Douglas Alston, Fayetteville, GA US
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| 20090275315 | Systems and Methods for a Wireless Messaging Information Service - A method and system for sending information in the form of a wireless message to a wireless device subscriber requesting advertising, product, or service information is described. The method includes assigning an information request code by a service provider to the information provided by an advertiser, presenting or displaying the information request code along with an advertisement to potential consumers, receiving the information request code from the wireless device, and sending a wireless message to the potential consumer's wireless communication device. The system includes an advertisement comprising an information request code, a wireless communication device operable for sending the information request code and receiving a wireless data message, a wireless communication center in communication with a wireless network and operable for relaying, storing, and forwarding the wireless data message to the wireless communication device. | 11-05-2009 |
Douglas B. Alston, Fayetteville, GA US
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| 20090046844 | CALLING PARTY RINGTONE SELECTION IN TELEPHONE SYSTEM - A ringtone system is provided to a called party that wishes to have a particular ringtone annunciated for each of several types of calls from calling parties. In the ringtone system, for a call from a calling party, the calling party is prompted to identify the type of the call. The type of the call is received from the calling party, and if no type is received, the call is typed in a particular manner. A list of types of calls with respect to and as specified by the called party is maintained, where each type of call on the list has a corresponding ringtone specified therefor. The typed call is processed by determining from the list of types of calls for the called party the corresponding ringtone specified for the typed call, and by putting the call through to the called party with the determined ringtone. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090253404 | Systems And Methods For Messaging Using A Broadband Connection - Systems and methods for sending and receiving text, or data, messages between wireless communication devices and wireline-messaging devices utilize a broadband connection to the wireline premises as the signaling channel. A message application server sends messages directly to wireline-messaging devices through a digital network, such as the Internet. Such systems and methods include wireline-messaging devices integrated with premises telephones connected to a PSTN, in which the telephones are adapted with thin client software to send and receive data messages. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100100603 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PRODUCTS FOR SHARING CONTENT - Methods, systems, and products share content between a device and a media delivery device. The media delivery device includes a content sharing application stored in memory and a processor communicating with the memory. The processor sends a presence update message to indicate the media delivery device is active and available to receive content. The processor receives an invite, and the invite requests a session between the media delivery device and the device. The processor sends an accept message to accept the invitation. The processor receives the content and receives a message that terminates the session. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100297987 | Integrated Wireless/Wireline Registration - A system and method are disclosed for routing telephone calls directed to a wireless unit located in the wireless network to a landline device located in the landline network. The system utilizes a location register in the form of a service control point (SCP) located in the landline network to store certain information pertaining to landline numbers and respective routing numbers associated with landline devices. The SCP is functionally coupled to a Visitors' Location Register (VLR) as well as to a landline network element that facilitates the routing of communications to both landline devices and over to the MTSO and its associated Home Location Register (HLR) in the wireless network. The system provides for the registering of the wireless unit with the landline network by the dialing of an administrative number from a landline device and causes the VLR in the landline network to directly communicate with the HLR in the wireless network to keep both the landline and the wireless networks up to date as to the registration status and specific routing for the various subscribers. The system is thereby able to route calls efficiently and to alleviate the tromboning effect that often occurs when calls are redirected from a wireless unit to a landline device. | 11-25-2010 |
Douglas Banes Alston, Fayettesville, GA US
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| 20090068979 | PROVIDING REAL TIME CALL LOG DATA TO A REMOTE CALL LOG FOR CALLS TO AND FROM A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products provide call data associated with calls to and from a mobile communications apparatus. The call data supports a web-accessible call log feature that presents a summary of calling activity to a subscriber of communication services. The method involves completing a call to or from the mobile communications apparatus, storing call data associated with the completed call in a memory of the mobile communications apparatus, and substantially in real time, sending the call data to a management server associated with the web-accessible call log feature. | 03-12-2009 |
Eric E. Alston, Fuquay-Varina, NC US
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| 20110114522 | Surgical Instrument Tray System - The teachings herein provide a surgical instrument tray system comprising at least a stringer tray having an advantageous cradle configured to hold ring-handle instruments in a spaced-apart array. In particular, the cradle includes an array of compartments, with each compartment cradling and supporting the lower ring of a respective one of the ring-handle instruments loaded in the tray. Further, a removable, elongated locking member locks the lower rings within the cradle. These features allow the stringer tray to be used for neatly organizing and holding a potentially large quantity of ring-handle instruments, for presentation and use within an operating room environment, for stowage as part of a tracked tray system within a sterilization container, as well as to position and hold the ring-handle instruments in a fully open position for disinfecting and washing. | 05-19-2011 |
Jeff Alston, Pittsburgh, PA US
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| 20120084994 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRYING AND SANITIZING SPORTS GEAR - An apparatus and method of drying and sanitizing sports gear or other clothing includes an upward-extending rack; a support base to support the rack; a plurality of arms on the rack to support the clothing, the arms angled like the arms of a tree; an ozone generator; and a removable, flexible enclosure that covers the rack and is secured to the rack so as to retain the ozone near to the clothing. | 04-12-2012 |
Kevin Maurice Alston, Baltimore, MD US
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| 20090141482 | LIGHT SOURCE AND WIRING CONFIGURATION FOR POWER TOOL - A power tool includes a motor, a lighting power source, and a housing assembly defining an axis that supports the motor and the lighting power source. The power tool also includes a lighting assembly with a light and an energy line that transmits energy to the light to thereby provide illumination. The light and the lighting power source are disposed in spaced relationship from each other relative to the axis. Furthermore, the power tool includes a light holder supported by the housing assembly. The light holder supports the light and a portion of the energy line such that an end of the energy line unsupportedly extends beyond the light holder and electrically couples to the lighting power source. | 06-04-2009 |
Marya L. Alston, Wake Forest, NC US
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| 20100259385 | GROUP AWARE TRACKING OF PERSONAL PROPERTY WITHIN A BOUNDED ZONE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to personal articles tracking and provide a method, system and computer program product for group aware tracking within a bounded zone. In an embodiment of the invention, a group aware tracking method can include recording an association in a table in a computing system between individuals within a geographically bounded zone and at least one target object within the geographically bounded zone. The method also can include sensing an individual from amongst the individuals exiting the geographically bounded zone and further sensing a target object exiting the geographically bounded zone. The method yet further can include comparing the sensed individual with the further sensed target object to determine whether or not an association exists in the table and triggering an alarm when an association is determined not to exist in the table between the sensed individual and the further sensed target object. | 10-14-2010 |
Michael W. Alston, Norfolk, VA US
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| 20100088167 | LEAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for generating a sales referral over the Internet for the sale of an asset. A first and second salesperson is provided with an account that comprises a number of clicks and a first period during which the clicks will be delivered. A click comprises an assignment on a web site of linking information corresponding to a saleperson's web site. A consumer who activates the click is transferred to a web site of the salesperson, and the click is debited from the salesperson's account. | 04-08-2010 |
Robert Alston, Hamilton, GA US
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| 20090056019 | Retractable Toe Tent Device and Method of Using Same - A retractable toe tent device is provided to elevate the covers at the foot of the bed so that a person may sleep comfortably without the weight of the covers on their feet, thereby preventing pain or discomfort in their toes, feet, ankles, or knees. The device is comprised of a base and a telescoping support which can be raised while in use, or lowered while not in use. | 03-05-2009 |
Thomas E. Alston, Bothell, WA US
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| 20080264718 | JET NOZZLE HAVING NOISE ATTENUATING SHIELD AND METHOD THEREFOR - An arcuate or semi-circumferential shield in the shape of a visor that is adapted to be secured to an external surface of a nozzle housing of a jet nozzle to attenuate jet noise generated by the jet nozzle. The shield may be fixedly secured to the nozzle housing or movably supported so that it can be moved between retracted and deployed positions. When used as a fixedly mounted component, or when positioned in its deployed position, a downstream edge of the shield extends past a downstream edge of the nozzle housing and the shield is spaced apart from an outer surface of the nozzle housing to form a channel therebetween. The shield is preferably orientated at approximately a bottom dead center of the nozzle housing. The shield operates to attenuate jet installation noise, and particularly jet installation noise experienced during the takeoff phase of flight of a jet aircraft, as well as to reduce jet installation noise that would otherwise propagate forwardly toward the cockpit of the aircraft. | 10-30-2008 |
Travis Alston, Huntsville, AL US
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| 20100019529 | Truck Bed Cover and Method - A truck bed cover has one or more foldable sections for covering a bed of a truck. In addition, the truck bed cover has one or more flaps attached to the sections, and each of the flaps has a magnet for magnetically coupling the sections to the truck. | 01-28-2010 |