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Video phone set

Granted 14 Jun 2016 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC · originally Sorenson Communications

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Inventors: Mark David Nelson, Eric V. Winsor, Thomas Mitchell Dair, Conrad Arlo Maxwell +6 · Examiner: Susan Bennett Hattan · AU 2918 · TC 2900

Application
29/518,646
filed 25 Feb 2015
Publication
Not published
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US D758984
granted 14 Jun 2016

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a video phone set showing our new design, wherein the set includes a touch-screen unit, a handset, and cradle unit according to a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a back view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a left side view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a top view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the touch-screen unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a front view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 11 is a back view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 12 is a right side view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 13 is a left side view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 14 is a top view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 15 is a bottom view of the handset and the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 16 is a perspective view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 17 is a front view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 18 is a back view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 19 is a right side view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 20 is a left side view of the handset the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 21 is a top view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 22 is a bottom view of the handset of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 23 is a perspective view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 24 is a front view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 25 is a back view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 26 is a right side view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 27 is a left side view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure;

FIG. 28 is a top view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure; and,

FIG. 29 is a bottom view of the cradle unit of the video phone set of FIG. 1 , shown separated from the set for clarity of disclosure.

The broken lines consisting of a long dash and two short dashes seen on the front and back surfaces of the touch-screen unit depict portions of the touch-screen unit that form no part of the claim; while the remaining broken lines in the figures showing the stand on the rear of the touch-screen, the cord connecting the cradle unit to the touch-screen unit, the logo on the top of the cord connector on the front of the handset, and the feet on the bottom of the cradle unit represent environmental structure and form no part of the claim.

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/130D16/208D14/140.11

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Pendency
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Examiner
Susan Bennett Hattan
art unit 2918 · TC 2900
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