Abstract

BACKGROUND
Competition for telecommunications resources within the home can be fierce. For example, many parents find that, no matter how many lines they have, including broadband access, their teenagers always commandeer all available tele communications resources for much of the time, especially in the evenings when parents oftentimes desire to use the phone themselves. People sharing telecommunications resources want to be able to easily have those resources available with out argument and disagreement, eg, parents want to get their children off the phone (or off the phone line) without an unnecessary confrontation. Accordingly, a system is needed to help allocate telecommunications resources reasonably among those living together in a home. Moreover, people within a household presently spend valu able time answering telephone calls for one another, or worse, fail to take the time to …

Date

2012

Authors

GW Cermak, BA Nelson, SK Teare, A Tserkovny, JH Wurster, DR Jones, ...

Inventors

Gregory Wayne Cermak, Bernadette Anita Nelson, Sandra Kelly Teare, Alex Tserkovny, John Herman Wurster, Douglas Reynold Jones, Linda Louise Witham, Stephen Paul Brennan, Premkumar Natarajan, Anne M Kraus-Keenan, Elizabeth I Van Horn

Patent_office

US

Patent_number

8340262

Application_number

11280325