Eugene Jay Rosenthal

US Patent:

6374661, Apr 23, 2002

Filed:

Sep 29, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/162751

Inventors:

Edward K. Buratynski - Lawrenceville NJ
Suresh Goyal - Warren NJ
Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G01N 330

US Classification:

73 1206

Abstract:

Drop testing is performed by controlling the position of a product to be tested with respect to the drop surface until just before the initial impact and then the product is allowed to impact like a free body. Advantageously, realistic, controllable, and substantially repeatable free drop testing can be achieved. In one embodiment of the invention the product is suspended at an angle from a falling structure, e. g. , using at least one string or wire, and the suspending material is effectively released just prior to initial impact. By effectively released it is meant actually released, or the effect of the suspending material is essentially negligible, e. g. , where the suspending material produces a very low restitutional force when deformed, such as a weak rubber band. The suspension of the object is arranged in such a way that initial impact occurs at the desired point on the product. To this end, depending on the configuration of the object and the number of suspending elements available, it may be necessary that the point of initial impact remain in contact with a platform, which may be part of the structure, that drops along with the product, such as a conventional drop table.

US Patent:

6415024, Jul 2, 2002

Filed:

Apr 13, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/059904

Inventors:

James Patrick Dunn - Northville Township IL
Don Howard Dvorak - Hinsdale IL
Mark Alan Lassig - Naperville IL
Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ
Ronald David Slusky - Highland Park NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 1500

US Classification:

37911405, 37910004, 37911201, 379 101, 379 3202, 37912101

Abstract:

It is desirable to be able to recognize data calls so that different charges can be applied to such calls and that vertical services, such as the use of special transmission facilities, may be offered to data callers. This recognition is accomplished by attaching a tone detector to a call in order to detect the special tones characteristic of a data call. Advantageously, this permits different charges to be imposed on data calls.

US Patent:

6792618, Sep 14, 2004

Filed:

Mar 2, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/033279

Inventors:

Samuel J. Bendinelli - Montgomery NJ
Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04N 7173

US Classification:

725112, 725110

Abstract:

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or other network information identifiers embedded in television signals are processed in order to permit viewers to customize the display of a corresponding program. In an illustrative embodiment, at a time prior to the scheduled display of a program or portion thereof, a given viewer makes a selection of one of a number of available alternate characteristics for the program, such as one of a number of available alternate endings. At a later time, a base URL embedded in the television signal is extracted and processed using the viewer selection in order to generate a combined URL. The combined URL is then used to establish a connection over a network with a corresponding web site or other information source, and information is retrieved from the web site and stored in a memory. The retrieved information is subsequently taken from the memory and used to modify the manner in which the program is displayed to the viewer. For example, the retrieved information may include video which is displayed to the viewer in place of a portion of the program.

US Patent:

RE40821, Jul 7, 2009

Filed:

Nov 6, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/289082

Inventors:

Shankar Narayanaswamy - Sunnyvale CA, US
Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ, US

Assignee:

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G09G 3/36

US Classification:

345102, 345173, 345 5, 349 61

Abstract:

A portable or other electronic device has two or more display devices or screens that can be used to display different subsets of image signals. The effect is that the device simulates the display capabilities of devices having much larger screens. The device has an open or active configuration, in which the multiple screens are available for displaying image signals, and a closed or inactive configuration, in which some or all of the multiple screens are folded together or otherwise stowed away to reduce the size of the device for storage and/or carrying. By simulating large-display operations, electronic devices according to the present invention are capable of presenting more useable information to the user than is otherwise possible using prior art devices having a single small screen.

US Patent:

57647488, Jun 9, 1998

Filed:

Sep 30, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/722688

Inventors:

Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ
Rhoda Yaker - Annandale NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 358
H04M 300
H04M 1506
H04M 354

US Classification:

379215

Abstract:

An enhanced call waiting (ECW) feature is provided by a switch serving a called subscriber who, while still on a first telephone call, receives a subsequent telephone call. According to ECW, the switch provides service so that the called party may select from processing treatments for the second call which, in addition to the conventional processing of a) placing the first telephone call on hold and answering the second telephone call request, or b) simply declining the subsequent telephone call request, include treatments such as: 1) declining acceptance of the subsequent telephone call request but signaling the subsequent telephone call originator, via a message, to call again at a predetermined time or at the end of a specified period of time; 2) declining acceptance of the subsequent telephone call request and signaling the subsequent telephone call originator, via a message, that the called subscriber will return the call at a predetermined time or at the end of a specified period of time; 3) bridging the subsequent telephone call originator with the first telephone call to establish a conference; 4) directing, via a message, that the telephone call be transferred to another telephone number, e. g. , a secretary or voice messaging system, that is specified as part of the message; or 5) disabling call waiting while the called subscriber remains on the first call, (i) for this particular caller, (ii) for all callers except those listed on a so-called "exception" list, or (iii) for all callers.

US Patent:

58381406, Nov 17, 1998

Filed:

Jan 17, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/785268

Inventors:

Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H02J 704
G08B 2100
G01N 27415

US Classification:

320133

Abstract:

When a user has a portable telephone near the absolute end of its available battery power, the user can be caused to behave in a manner that more likely results in the preservation of some battery power for subsequent high priority high priority calls by conveying the illusion that the battery will soon be, or is, depleted even though there actually remains sufficient power in the battery to power the portable telephone for an additional period of time. To this end, at a predetermined time, e. g. , two minutes, prior to a projected time at which the battery is expected to have power for only a particular additional amount of time, e. g. , eight minutes, the user is signaled with an almost-out-of-power warning. This warning indicates that there remains in the battery enough power to operate the portable telephone only until the projected time, notwithstanding that there actually remains in the battery sufficient power to operate the portable telephone for the additional time beyond the projected time. To enhance the illusion of early battery power depletion, the portable telephone powers off at the projected time.

US Patent:

62560433, Jul 3, 2001

Filed:

Sep 26, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/938304

Inventors:

Alfred Vaino Aho - Chatham NJ
Sudhir Raman Ahuja - Little Silver NJ
Gianpaolo U. Carraro - Red Bank NJ
James Robert Ensor - Red Bank NJ
Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06T 1100

US Classification:

345433

Abstract:

For a world that has a portion of the world distant from the point of view of the user represented in only two dimensions as a video on a video screen, when an object on the video screen undergoes a trajectory that takes at least a portion of it to a location in the world that is not represented by the video but instead is a location in the world that is represented by computer graphics, in addition to being able to continue to see such an object when it is rendered as computer graphics in the computer graphics part of the world, i. e. , popped out from the video, one is able to interact with such an object. Thus, an object which pops out from a video into the computer graphics part of the world may be "investigated" by a viewer of the world. For example, the user could enter a store which popped out of the video, and engage in virtual shopping therein. The particular store which is actually entered may be customized on a per user basis, e. g.

US Patent:

62087185, Mar 27, 2001

Filed:

Jul 29, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/124125

Inventors:

Eugene J. Rosenthal - Edison NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M11/00

US Classification:

379 9335

Abstract:

A user on a data call, e. g. , to the Internet, is prevented from establishing a data call immediately after an emergency interrupt has been initiated, and the fact that the emergency interrupt took place is brought to his attention. This is necessary because otherwise the emergency interrupt is likely to be perceived by a user connected to the Internet as simply a dropped line, in response thereto the user is likely to simply originate a new call to the ISP, and so may never become aware that there has been an attempt to bring to his attention, via the emergency interrupts, an extraordinary circumstance. The invention achieves this by transmitting from the telephone network a signal which is recognizable by the user's modem and which indicates that an emergency interrupt took place. Such an emergency-interrupt-occurred signal may be transmitted upon the occurrence of the emergency interrupt or after the line next goes off-hook. Such a signal may be in addition to or in lieu of dial tone.