Daniel Stewart Stoops, 59Delaware, OH

2003018, Oct 2, 2003

Mar 26, 2002

10/106408

George Erhart - Pataskala OH, US
Stephen Griffiths - Westerville OH, US
David Skiba - Columbus OH, US
Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

G10L021/00

704/270100

A method of controlling the flow of streaming audio is provided. The method includes providing an application for receiving streaming audio and for controlling which streaming audio is sent to the user. The method also includes receiving voice commands, categorizing the voice commands as an interrupt-type commands or a streaming-type commands, performing interrupt-type control actions associated with the interrupt-type commands for controlling which streaming audio is provided to the user, and performing streaming-type control actions associated with the streaming-type commands for altering the streaming audio sent to the user without interrupting the streaming audio received by the application. The invention includes an interactive voice recognition system for controlling the flow of streaming audio to a user.

2004024, Dec 2, 2004

Jun 2, 2003

10/452358

Marc Cohen - Powell OH, US
Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

H04M001/64
H04M007/00

379/088220, 379/229000

A messaging system component provides for a screening of an incoming call from a telephony device of a plurality of telephony devices. The messaging system component is associated with a network and conforms to a signaling protocol of the network to communicate with the network. The messaging system component is located in a peripheral relationship to the network which allows for the addition of providing for the screening of the incoming call from the telephony device without modification to an architecture associated with the network.

2005022, Oct 13, 2005

Feb 20, 2004

10/783832

Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US
Jeffrey Webb - Gahanna OH, US

G06F011/30

719315000

A root grammar is provided to facilitate navigation between speech centric applications in a communications network. The root grammar may be constructed from the application grammars of the supported applications. During recognition processing, the root grammar may be combined with a current application's active grammar to produce a composite grammar. Audio communications recognized as part of the composite grammar may be used to service the current application, to navigate between applications, and/or to access different parts or documents of applications directly without navigating through intervening levels. In particular, from a user's perspective, another application or document referenced by the root grammar may be accessed directly, as opposed to employing a lengthier navigation process.

2007007, Mar 29, 2007

Sep 23, 2005

11/233874

Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

H04B 1/38
H04M 1/00

455566000

A subscriber uploads to a hosted Web site an image of himself that has been taken, for example, by the internal camera of his mobile terminal. Through interaction with the Web site, the subscriber is able to manipulate that image by animating certain facial features and/or selecting different static or animated backgrounds and optional audio background. The resultant image is stored as a facetone file and is pushed or made available to users to download. The pushed or downloaded facetone file is stored in a user's mobile terminal in association with the subscriber's identity as per in the terminal's address book. When an incoming call is received and is recognized as being from a user having an associated facetone file, that facetone file is triggered and the facetone is displayed on the mobile terminal's display screen enabling the user to easily identify the calling party.

2007015, Jun 28, 2007

Dec 28, 2005

11/319760

Cindy Mills - Galena OH, US
Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

G06F 15/173

709223000

A processor () receives a televised programming signal from a source () of televised programming. The processor () also receives a signal indicating chat room content from a chat room facility (). The processor () associates a visual representation of the chat room communication with a televised visual image so that the two can be simultaneously displayed on a display device (). A disclosed example allows for various individuals to communicate using a chat room facility () and to simultaneously observe the communications within the chat room while watching televised programming, using a single display device ().

2007018, Aug 16, 2007

Jan 31, 2006

11/343424

Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

H04M 3/42

379207160

The RingBack Tone song that a subscriber to a RingBack Tone service has selected to be played to callers instead of the traditional ringing is prepended with a personalized message from the subscriber so as to avoid confusing the called party who is expecting to hear ringing until the call is answered.

2007026, Nov 15, 2007

Mar 31, 2006

11/395501

Daniel Stoops - Galena OH, US

H04Q 7/38
H04Q 7/22
H04M 3/42

455414100

A Ring Tone is downloaded to a mobile terminal that combines both a musical portion selected by a subscriber/purchaser as well as an audio identification portion that is associated with the identity of a caller and is customized by the subscriber/purchaser. For example, the audio identification portion can be a recording of the caller's name or a “pet” name or nickname associated with that caller, or any sound that the subscriber/purchaser chooses to identify the caller. Thus, when an incoming call from that caller is received by the subscriber's/purchaser's mobile terminal and is recognized from its caller ID as being one that is stored in the mobile terminal's address book with an associated Ring Tone, the Ring Tone that is played includes both a musical portion and an audio portion that audibly identifies the caller. The subscriber/purchaser can thus immediately and unambiguously identify the caller.

2011018, Aug 4, 2011

Feb 1, 2010

12/697337

DANIEL S. STOOPS - Powell OH, US

H04L 12/66
H04M 1/64

370352, 379 87

Embodiments of methods of handling call control events are provided. An example method includes receiving, at an interpreter, information indicating a call control event associated with a call from a calling party to a called party. The calling party and/or the called party are subscribed to the social network. The example method also includes providing, from the interpreter, messaging information generated by an application server based on the call control event and information retrieved from the social network for the calling party and/or the called party.