KEVIN ROY COLWELL
Pilots at Willow Trl, Madison, WI

6510206, Jan 21, 2003

Sep 19, 2001

09/956310

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

H04M 1100

379 52, 379 8801, 379 8804, 379 8816, 379 9305, 379 9309, 37910009

A relay is described to facilitate communication through the telephone system between deaf people and hearing people. To overcome the speed limitations inherent in typing, the call assistant at the relay does not type most words but, instead, re-voices the words spoken by the hearing person into a computer operating a voice recognition software package trained to the voice of that call assistant. The conversation-type flow of communications achieved by this type of relay enables the design of a new class of interpreters for the deaf.

5974116, Oct 26, 1999

Jul 2, 1998

9/108790

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

H04M 1100

379 52

An electronic personal interpreter is provided so that deaf or hard of hearing persons can use on-the spot interpreting to converse with hearing persons who do not know sign language. The personal interpreter uses a telephone connection to a telephone relay system for the deaf to perform the actual interpretation. By using a wireless telephone connection, the device is made portable and by using improved communication protocols and a fast translation technique at the relay, conversation-like speeds of information interchange can occur. Thus for the first time, deaf people will be free to move in hearing society and engage in normal speed conversations with hearing people without special adaptations or training by the hearing people.

5517548, May 14, 1996

Nov 19, 1993

8/155061

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI
Ronald W. Schultz - Madison WI
Jeffrey Hilliard - Verona WI
Troy Vitek - Madison WI

H04M 1100

379 52

A telecommunication device for the deaf is designed to operate under an enhanced TDD communication protocol. The TDD is capable of communicating with conventional TDDs operating under normal Baudot/Weitbrecht communications, but is also capable of communicating with a similarly enhanced TDD utilizing an enhanced protocol with a faster data transfer rate. The enhanced TDD is capable of signaling to another remote TDD through the use of a synchronization character that it is capable of enhanced TDD communications. If a similar synchronization character is received from the remote station, both TDDs can then switch to enhanced TDD communication with its advantages of speed and enlarged character set. The synchronization character is especially designed so as not to interfere with the operation of a conventional TDD which might receive the character and also to be sufficiently distinctive so as to be capable of definite reception by enhanced TDD machines with minimum error.

5081673, Jan 14, 1992

Nov 16, 1990

7/616720

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Kevin Colwell - Madison WI

H04M 1100

379 98

A relay center has a first telephone line (12) and a second telephone line (14). Data signals may be carried on the first telephone line (12) and received into a modem (20). A terminal or computer (22) then receives the data signals and converts the signals into readable characters viewable on a display (26). An operator then reads messages formed by the characters and voices them into a telephone (28) connected to the second telephone (14). The operator may also receive spoken words through the telephone (28) and transcribe via a keyboard (24) for transmission of data signals by the modem (20) and carried on the first telephone line (12). Upon a command received through the first telephone line (12) or made by the operator, a voice bridge (10) may be established which establishes a direct vocal link from either the first telephone line (10) to the second telephone line (12) or from the second telephone line (12) to the first telephone line (14 ). A second command disconnects the telephone (28) from the second telephone line (14) to prevent the operator from hearing the audio sounds carried by the voice bridge (10).

5724405, Mar 3, 1998

Mar 24, 1994

8/217518

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

H04M 1100

379 52

A system is described for assisting the hard of hearing in the use of the telephone, the system termed here text enhanced telephony or TET. The hard of hearing user uses a TET device or appliance which permits the user to speak and to hear the words spoken by the other party, the TET device also supplying to the user a text character stream of the words spoken by the other party. The TET system uses the system of voice-to-text relays, already in existence to assist the deaf community communicate with hearing persons over the telephone, to translate the spoken voice into a text stream. The TET relay and TET device are capable of separating voice and digital communications frequencies carrying text so that voice and a text communications stream of the words spoken by the voice can be carried over a common telephone line. The devices can also be capable of automated capabilities such that the devices can automatically configure a three-party relay call without the need for the user's instructions.

5809425, Sep 15, 1998

Jun 7, 1995

8/481856

Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI
Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

H04M 1100, H04Q 700

455466

A low cost alphanumeric paging entry system is based on a low cost paging (LCP) device to enter paging messages remotely from any telephone. The device is designed to minimize the needs for user training and is intended for intuitive operation by the user. The device uses simplex communications, using a system of Baudot tones, to send the paging message to the paging system for transmission to the intended recipient. A gateway is a device intended to interface between such an LCP device and an otherwise conventional paging system. The gateway provides a series of audible prompts to the user to facilitate easy and intuitive entry of the paging message to the gateway. The gateway then re-formats the paging message into a standard digital paging message format and re-transmits the message to a pagan system for transmission to the recipient.

2012025, Oct 4, 2012

Jun 1, 2012

13/486221

Robert M. Engleke - Madison WI, US
Kevin R. Colwell - Middleton WI, US

H04M 11/00

379 52

A method of and system for operating a captioned telephone service, the method comprising the steps of providing words spoken by a remote user to a relay, at the relay, a call assistant listening to the words spoken by the remote user and re-voicing the words into a computer with voice recognition software trained to the voice of the call assistant to create a text stream of the words spoken by the remote user and presenting the text stream to an assisted user via a display.

7319740, Jan 15, 2008

Oct 25, 2005

11/257703

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI, US
Kevin Colwell - Middleton WI, US

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

H04M 11/00

379 52, 379 9315

An arrangement for providing captioned telephone service is provided which permits persons who are hard of hearing to receive captioning of their telephone communications as they need it. A personal interpreter/captioned telephone device can dial a relay on a second telephone line while the assisted user if conversing with a hearing user over a first telephone line. The second telephone line connects to a relay which provides voice to text translation service and returns a text stream to the captioned telephone device.

2013018, Jul 25, 2013

Mar 8, 2013

13/790420

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI, US
Kevin R. Colwell - Middleton WI, US
Troy D. Vitek - Waunakee WI, US

H04M 3/42

379 52

A system and method for presenting caller ID information related to a caption assisted telephone call incorporating a first party Network appliance, a first party telephone service/terminal, and a relay linkable to the first party Network appliance via the Internet.

D364865, Dec 5, 1995

Jun 10, 1994

D/024266

Robert M. Engelke - Madison WI
Ronald W. Schultz - Madison WI
Kevin R. Colwell - Middleton WI
Robert Schoenbeck - Madison WI

Ultratec, Inc. - Madison WI

D14144