James E Toga

6747970, Jun 8, 2004

Mar 21, 2000

09/531713

Christopher H. Lamb - Weston MA, 02493-1350
Scott B. Petrack - Brookline MA, 02445
James E. Toga - Wayland MA, 01778

H04L 1266

370352, 370401, 370466

A telecommunications system uses software applications called user agents, that are preferably Internet-based and that operate on behalf of users in a telecommunications hosting server to control call connections under control of a telecommunications network server that interfaces with the telecommunications hosting server as well as a connection-based public-telephone network. The telecommunications hosting server operates on a computer network on behalf of the user agents to provide call signaling in support of many advanced calling and telecommunications services. The functionality and, performance (e. g. , execution) of the user agent(s) preferably takes place primarily within the telecommunications hosting server, though user client computers can provide some and possibly all of the user agent functionality, depending upon the particular implementation chosen.

7411939, Aug 12, 2008

May 10, 2004

10/842234

Christopher H. Lamb - Weston MA, US
Scott B. Petrack - Brookline MA, US
James E. Toga - Wayland MA, US

Alcatel Lucent - Paris

H04L 12/26

370352, 370401, 370466, 379219

A telecommunications system uses software applications called user agents, that are preferably Internet-based and that operate on behalf of users in a telecommunications hosting server to control call connections under control of a telecommunications network server that interfaces with the telecommunications hosting server as well as a connection-based public telephone network. The telecommunications hosting server operates on a computer network on behalf of the user agents to provide call signaling in support of many advanced calling and telecommunications services. The functionality and performance (e. g. , execution) of the user agent(s) preferably takes place primarily within the telecommunications hosting server, though user client computers can provide some and possibly all of the user agent functionality, depending upon the particular implementation chosen.

7412527, Aug 12, 2008

Oct 13, 2005

11/248170

Jeffrey L. Pulver - Great Neck NY, US
Carl S. Ford - Fairlawn NJ, US
James E. Toga - Wayland MA, US

Pulver.com - Melville NY

G06F 13/00

709229, 709206, 709219

Methods and systems for telecommunications operations and controls include (1) an enhanced text message process or methodology that allows a remote user who does not have, already installed, a specialized voice telephony program to nevertheless place and participate in a voice call, (2) call admission control using a “degrees of separation” metric, (3) real time controlled sharing of contact (buddy) lists, (4) multi-service instance messaging conferences, and (5) “meta buddies” or buddy lists that can be automatically imported and made part of a user's own buddy list.

20080301310, Dec 4, 2008

Aug 11, 2008

12/189435

Jeffrey L. Pulver - Great Neck NY, US
Carl S. Ford - Fairlawn NJ, US
James E. Toga - Wayland MA, US

G06F 13/00

709229

Methods and systems for telecommunications operations and controls include (1) an enhanced text message process or methodology that allows a remote user who does not have, already installed, a specialized voice telephony program to nevertheless place and participate in a voice call, (2) call admission control using a “degrees of separation” metric, (3) real time controlled sharing of contact (buddy) lists, (4) multi-service instance messaging conferences, and (5) “meta buddies” or buddy lists that can be automatically imported and made part of a user's own buddy list.

20110224000, Sep 15, 2011

Jan 14, 2011

12/930713

James Toga - Wayland MA, US
Siddhartha Gupta - Boston MA, US
Kenneth Cox - Marlborough MA, US
Rafal K. Boni - Needham MA, US

A63F 9/24

463 42

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for voice-based entertainment activity in a networked environment. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computers, establishing a connection between the client and a server, the client comprising a web browser and an audio input/output device, receiving a list of entertainment games over the connection from the server, selecting an entertainment game from the list, receiving a globally unique identifier from the server corresponding to the selected entertainment game, the globally unique identifier having an associated voice channel and text channel, in response to a client request to initiate game play, sending audio to the server through the audio input/output device and receiving audio from the server through the audio/input device, in response to a client request to terminate game play, terminating the associated voice channel, and receiving text messages from the server over the associated text channel.

20120016926, Jan 19, 2012

Jul 15, 2010

12/863118

James Toga - Wayland MA, US
Siddhartha Gupta - Marlboro MA, US
Kenneth Cox - Marlboro MA, US
Rafal K. Boni - Needham MA, US

VIVOX INC. - Natick MA

G06F 15/16

709203

Scalable techniques for rendering emissions represented using segments of streaming data, the emissions being potentially perceivable from many points of perception and the emissions and the points of perception having relationships that vary in real time. The techniques filter the segments by determining for a time slice whether a given emission is perceptible to a given point of perception. If it is not, the segments of streaming data representing the emission are not used to render the emissions as perceived from the given point of perception. The techniques are used in networked virtual environments to render audio emissions at clients in a networked virtual reality system. With audio emissions, one determinant of whether a given emission is perceivable at a given point of perception is whether psychoacoustic properties of other emissions mask the given emission. The segments representing the streaming data also contain metadata which is used both in the filtering and in rendering the streaming data for a point of perception at which the emission is perceived.

20130007147, Jan 3, 2013

Sep 22, 2011

13/239641

James Toga - Wayland MA, US
Siddhartha Gupta - Needham MA, US
Dmitry Orlovsky - Brookline MA, US
Paul Ramos - Marlborough MA, US
David Verratti - Austin TX, US

G06F 15/16

709206

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for extending and associating chats with execution instances of programs. A method includes, in a computer system, extending and associating chats with execution instances of programs.

20140292998, Oct 2, 2014

Apr 2, 2013

13/855230

James Toga - Wayland MA, US

G06F 9/50
H04N 7/14

348 1402, 718104

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing use of resources in mobile devices. A method includes, in a mobile device comprising at least a display, a processor and a memory, reading data of a sensor of the device, determining from the sensor data that the device is in an operating circumstance for processing the data in a fashion that consumes a different amount of a resource, and processing the data in a fashion that consumes a different amount of the resource.