Telephonic communications inventions 11/05

20050259795 - Simplified call answering service: There is disclosed a call answering system comprising storage means for storing a user specified address; means for recording voice messages associated with the user; and forwarding means for forwarding recorded voice messages to the user specified address....

20050259796 - Method for transmitting data in a communication network: The present invention proposes a method for transmitting data in a communication network, said communication network comprising at least one call control entity (CSCF) for controlling calls to be established from a subscriber (A, B) to a communication destination (B, A), a service control entity (SCP) for controlling services provisioned...

20050259797 - Self-service checkout system utilizing portable communications terminal: A system for transferring data between a centrally located site and a portable communications terminal via a telephone network, the site having associated therewith a look up table containing plurality of data records correlating to items disposed at a retail establishment, wherein each of the items has associated therewith a...

20050259798 - Integrated instant messaging, routing and telephone services billing system: Techniques for using billing services to manage a personal address book are provided. The techniques comprise receiving a call detail record (CDR) for a plain old telephone system (POTS) or a voice-over-IP (VOIP) call by a user. The CDR is created by a telecommunication carrier that routed the call. The...

20050259799 - Prepaid telephone calling card with distinct pin numbers: A prepaid long-distance telephone calling card has two or more distinct PIN numbers each obscured by opaque scratch-off material. Each PIN number is associated with prepaid value. A user can scratch off the opaque material for PIN numbers one by one, and the value for each PIN number expires in...

20050259800 - Method of charging a subscriber of a telecommunications network: There is described a system for operating a call charging service in a telecommunications network. In the system, a data signal is received from a user requesting that the cost of a call from a user terminal in the network be charged to a network subscriber account associated with a...

20050259801 - Machine and process for accepting customer payments and placing orders: A machine and process for accepting customer payments and placing orders for telecommunications services is disclosed. The machine and process include a kiosk operable to accept account set-up information from an individual, accept payment from the individual, collect identifying data from the individual, and communicate with a system to activate...

20050259802 - Architecture and implementation for control of context aware call processing with local feature definition: A communication system comprising one or more ubiquitous sensor(s) for generating awareness data relating to a user, a context engine for receiving and processing the awareness data to determine the user's current context for the purpose of event handling, a policy engine for receiving and relating at least one pertinent...

20050259803 - Managing a conference session: A method provides managing a conference session in a communication system. The method includes maintaining a main conference between at least three communicating parties over a shared floor. The method also includes creating a sidebar to the main conference. Parties of the sidebar include at least the main conference and...

20050259804 - Method and system for providing calling number restoral: A system and method for restoring the original calling number in a call routed through an out-of-network enhanced service provider to a forwarding destination. The system comprises a service control point, a service switching point in communication with the service control point, and an enhanced service provider service node in...

20050259806 - Automated directory assistance system for a hybrid tdm/voip network: An automated directory assistance platform architecture is provided for at least partial automatic processing of 411 calls from TDM-based telephone networks and from VoIP networks. The architecture includes three layers. One layer is a telephony network interface that accepts information from both TDM and VoIP based DA networks. The telephony...

20050259805 - Telephone directory assistane method and telephone directory assistance system: This telephone directory assistance system accepts a request for a telephone number of a registrant, and judges whether the registrant is registered in a telephone number data base. When the registrant is registered in the telephone number data base, the telephone directory assistance system judges whether a message from the...

20050259807 - Method and network for providing access to an information network: An intelligent network for providing access to an information network (80) has a number of central office switches (64, 82). Each central office switch (64, 82) is capable of receiving a call to a centrex telephone number and transmitting a query. A service control point (70) is coupled to the...

20050259808 - Universal state-aware communications: A communications system for general business environments that exploits knowledge of user state to provide advantages of efficiency and control for individual users and for the business. The communications system also provides particular advantages in environments where users have multiple communication devices and for communications of a business with external...

20050259809 - Means and method for detecting three-way call attempts: Disclosed is an improved three-way call detection system and method for use with a telephone management system. Specifically, three-way call detection circuit monitors the active communications of the telephone management system for pulses of energy indicative of a three-way call. A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is computed for all pulses...

20050259810 - Telephone nid isolation module: A telephone network interface device (NID) isolation module (NIM). The NIM is adapted to fit a telco-side modular jack of a NID bridging a telco feed to inside wiring. The NIM comprises a modular plug made of an electrically insulating material that fits securely in the modular jack. Following disconnection...

20050259811 - Headset for communication devices: The present invention relates to headsets for communication devices, including, but not limited to, cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, desk top computers, and lap top computers. Specifically, this invention teaches a head set which may be fully retracted and then integrated with a communication device. For a wired head set,...

20050259812 - Bluetooth communication assembly: A communication assembly includes a body having a socket and a circular projection formed around the socket, and an ear set having a terminal formed on a first distal end of the ear set to correspond to the socket, an arcuate cap formed around the terminal to be inserted into...

20050254629 - Measurement noise reduction for signal quality evaluation: Disclosed are systems and methods for providing measurement noise reduction when making signal quality evaluation measurements. Embodiments operate to obtain a signal sample which includes measurement system induced noise as well as network system induced noise, obtain a noise profile of the measurement system induced noise, and optionally obtain information...

20050254630 - Communication system: When a line for communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second...

20050254631 - Simulated voice message by concatenating voice files: Computer-generated personalized voice messages are created by concatenating data files of audio that were pre-recorded in the voice of an individual whose live voice is to be simulated during the delivery of the voice message. A call to a person or list of persons is placed by a computer. Common...

20050254632 - System, method and software for transitioning between speech-enabled applications using action-object matrices: A system, method and software are described for facilitating transitions between speech-enabled applications employing action-object matrices. In an exemplary embodiment, an automatic call router determines a service agent destination by identifying an action-object combination included in a user utterance. In addition to forwarding the user to the service agent destination,...

20050254633 - Time division multiple access over voice line: A time division multiple access over voice line comprises a telephone line and at least a communication equipment. Signals are transmitted via the telephone line to the communication equipment. The communication equipment comprises a coupler, a filter, an IC and a microprocessor. Digitized voice or data are transmitted via an...

20050254634 - Telephone having slot for receiving a removable memory card: A telephone having a slot for receiving a removable memory card is provided. The telephone comprises an internal main controller. The memory card is a readable/writable memory card and is adapted to connect to a computer via an interface such as USB port, a RS232 port, or a network. Programs...

20050254635 - Method and apparatus for conveying short messages to pstn telephone during regular voice communication: A source telephone terminal connected to the PSTN conveys an instant message to a target telephone terminal during voice communication. The source telephone may be equipped with a Central Office Call Waiting Caller ID (COCWCID) protocol emulator for conveying an alert signal to the target telephone terminal to inform the...

20050254636 - Telephone number change notification method and telephone number change notification system: A telephone number change notification method is provided in which a calling party is reliably identified when a new telephone number of a called party is notified to the calling party when the called party changed the telephone number. When a telephone exchange detects that a called number is changed...

20050254637 - Call request control device: A call request control device, which in an offhook state, upon detecting a key input, checks the type of the key that was input. When the input key is a transmission/redial key, a determination is made of whether dial data is stored in the dial buffer. If dial data is...

20050254638 - System and method for routing calls using a universal access phone number: A system and method of routing calls made to a called party Universal Access Phone Number (UAPN) in a telecommunications network is provided. The method includes determining the time the call is made, determining the day the call is made, selecting a time/day-phone number for a destination phone number based...

20050254639 - Direct coupling of telephone volume control with remote microphone gain and noise cancellation: The present invention creates a method, apparatus and system by which a telephone unit volume control provides instantaneous coupling to and controlling of a connected telephone unit's microphone gain and noise cancellation circuitry. With this invention, an increase in the volume control on the first unit, will result in an...

20050254640 - Sound pickup apparatus and echo cancellation processing method: The present invention is related to a sound pickup apparatus selecting one of a plurality of microphones and performing echo cancellation processing for a plurality of microphones with an echo canceller to output a sound. The sound pickup apparatus sets a “learning mode” when the power supply is turned on,...

20050254641 - Ring voltage generation circuit and method for generating a ring voltage: d) a common mode feedback device (5) which receives the supply voltage (VSUPPLY), a TIP potential (VT) of the TIP lead (9) and a RING potential (VR) of the RING lead (10) and which generates thereof a control voltage (VC), whereas the common mode feedback device (5) controls the amplifier...

20050254642 - Telephone handset universal connector: A telephone handset universal connector is used to connect between a phone base having a set of four signal outlets, and a handset having a set of four corresponding signal ports. The telephone handset universal connector includes a universal circuitry and a selection switch. The universal circuitry has an electric...

20050254643 - Universal phone cover and method of use: A cover for a telephone handset is made of a nonwoven fabric folded in half and stitched around its edges, an elasticized band formed in a loop and fixed to the fabric, the elasticized band defining a sole opening in the fabric, and the material has a crescent shape when...

20050249332 - Telecommunications transmissions test set: A test set includes at least one signal input port, a test circuitry, a processor, a user-input device, and a display. The test circuitry couples to and receives signals from the at least one signal input port. The test circuitry then generates test data corresponding to the received signals. The...

20050249333 - Equipment monitoring system and method: A system for monitoring a piece of equipment is provided. The system comprises a monitoring device that is associated with the equipment and configured to detect data relating to the operation of the equipment. A communication network is adapted to communicate the data to a server based on a signal...

20050249334 - Method and apparatus for obtaining telephone status over a network: A system and method for monitoring the state of a structure over a network. The system and method provides for providing the status of a monitoring device to a status file. The status file is accessible over the Internet by computer so that a party can first determine the status...

20050249335 - Multiple service announcement system: A method for providing multiple calling service announcements on a single circuit card within a telephone network. The method reduces the number of stored speech files necessary to generate announcements regarding a calling service such as Automatic Call Back or Enhanced Repeat Dial. By reducing the amount of speech data...

20050249336 - Telephone adaptor module with rule-based audio playback and wireless function programming capability: A telephone system includes a telephone adaptor module with rule-based audio playback in wireless function programming capabilities. The system allows existing telephones to be retrofit with rule-based audio playback functionality. A physically independent remote programming device is used for transmitting function programming information in audio content to the device via...

20050249337 - Method and apparatus for just in time education: Methods and apparatus are provided for just-in-time education. The just-in-time education provides instruction or reminders of tasks to be completed, preparations to be made or a sequence of actions to follow in response to an urgent notification. Information associated with an event, such as an emergency event, is provided to...

20050249338 - Method and telecommunications system for processing digitally stored sound sequences: The invention relates to a method for processing digitally stored sound sequences, such as holding music MOH (Music on Hold), voice sequences or signal tones, in a telecommunications system equipped with a CPU, a working memory for the CPU, and with a switching network. A program code and/or data of...

20050249339 - Providing notification of voicemail (vm) messages using instant messaging (im) transport: Systems and methods are disclosed in which notifications of incoming voicemail (VM) messages are provided over an instant messaging (IM) transport. Briefly described, for some embodiments, among others, notifications for VM messages are generated, and the generated notifications are then transmitted to an IM contact address over an IM transport....

20050249340 - Apparatus for viewing faxes: Apparatus comprising a modem 10 and a unit 12. The unit 12 having a screen 32 and control buttons. The unit 12 acts to reroute any faxes going through the modem 10 to a memory store provided within the unit 12 so that faxes are not automatically printed out. The...

20050249341 - Method and apparatus for providing fraud detection using geographically differentiated connection duration thresholds: An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A threshold corresponding to a geographic location is set. The threshold corresponds to duration of a call supporting data communications. It is determined whether the call duration exceeds the threshold. A fraud alert is generated if the monitored call...

20050249342 - Methods and systems for providing usage pattern service for telecommunications customers: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing a usage pattern for a customer of an intelligently-switched telecommunications system. The usage pattern provides historical information concerning the customer's use of the telecommunications system. One embodiment includes communicating either with the telecommunications system or with a data network and receiving a query...

20050249343 - Method for conveniently adding contact information to a network-based address book: A method and structure for a communication device connected to the telephone network. A first database within the telephone network provides line identification information associated with a telephone call occurring on the communication device and a second telephone network database is used to maintain the telephone address book. An intelligent...

20050249344 - Network delivery of personalized caller identification: A subscriber is provided with personal caller identification information when a telephone call is placed to the subscriber. In particular, a network service platform is supplied with a calling party number. A network caller ID database is queried using the calling party number to retrieve network caller ID information. A...

20050249345 - Call hold signaling: One or more elements in a telecommunications network (10, 10′ and 10″) receive a call hold-initiating message when a first party places a second party to the call on hold, and in doing so, triggers a call hold event in the network. In response to the call hold-initiating message, the...

20050249346 - Conference call dialing: A communication device recognizes a first string of characters as a telephone number and a second string of characters as additional information related to the telephone number. A menu is then displayed having a menu item including the telephone number and the additional information. When the user has selected the...

20050249347 - Non stationary echo canceller: An echo canceller (1) is described, which has dedicated non stationary echo cancelling properties. The non stationary echo could be estimated directly, or indirectly by subtracting the stationary echo determined by a stationary noise estimator. The echo canceller may comprise an adaptive filter (4) and a residual echo processor (6)...

20050243972 - Interface apparatus and method of interfacing a monitoring system: Known probe-based network monitoring systems, whilst providing may benefits to network operators wishing to monitor various aspects of their network, have a cost implication associated with them in relation to the setting-up of taps. Also, the use of such systems may become problematic if network operators decide to encrypt signalling...

20050243973 - Method and system for routing emergency communications: Methods and systems are provided to locate, route, and/or otherwise process an emergency communications signal from a VoIP communication device equipped with a location positioning system and an emergency communications computer software product. The software identifies an emergency communications address, activates the location positioning system, and communicates location coordinates and...

20050243974 - Method of and system for altering incoming call controls after a call has been placed to an emergency number: According to the various embodiments of the present invention, an outbound call to a number on an emergency call list may change the incoming call controls to a telephone. In particular, methods of altering incoming call controls after a call has been placed to an emergency number comprises steps of...

20050243975 - Method and system of determining unsolicited callers: A method (10) of determining an unsolicited caller can include receiving (12) a call from a caller, requesting (15) a voice sample from the caller, analyzing (16) the voice sample using speech recognition to provide an analyzed voice sample which can be transcribed to provide a text output, and comparing...

20050243976 - Method and apparatus for obtaining telephone status over a network: A system and method for determining telephone status over a network. The system and method provides for off hook status to be determined by a switch or other monitor that then provides that information to a telephone status file. The telephone status file is accessible over the Internet by computer...

20050243978 - System and method of interworking messages between mobile communication terminals: A system for interworking messages of a mobile communications terminal employs a method of receiving by a first messaging service server a multimedia message sent by a first user client of a first messaging service, processing the multimedia message at the first messaging service server and at a second messaging...

20050243977 - Telecommunications voice server leveraging application web-server capabilities: A method for providing voice telephony services can include the step of receiving a call via a telephone gateway. The telephone gateway can convey call identifying data to a resource connector. A media port can be responsively established within a media converter that is communicatively linked to the telephone gateway...

20050243979 - Integrated messaging user interface with message-based logging: Mechanisms for organizing messages across different message types. This may be accomplished by using a single integrated user interface in which messages across a variety of different message types are represented in a common way. For example, the user experience of placing a telephone call is standardized, regardless of the...

20050243981 - Enhanced media resource protocol messages: A communication system can include a telephony application server and at least one speech engine, where the system uses a standardized messaging protocol that specifies a standard for media resources. The telephony application server can have at least one voice server component. The speech engines can be allocated to handle...

20050243980 - Process integrated messaging: A process integrated messaging system is provided. The system typically includes messaging interface logic, parsing logic, analyzing logic, and database interface logic. The messaging interface logic receives a first message via a messaging client from an originating party regarding a record. The parsing logic parses the first message into its...

20050243982 - Integrated telephone call and context notification mechanism: A mechanism for placing a telephone call while at the same time communicating context (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface to instruct a caller computing system to place a telephone call to a callee computing system. Using the...

20050243983 - Modems: A modem for receiving and transmitting data from and to a conductor comprises an output drive for transmitting data to the conductor, a receiver for receiving data from the conductor and impedance matching means for matching the impedance of the receiver input with the impedance of the conductor, wherein the...

20050243984 - Method and apparatus for providing fraud detection using hot or cold originating attributes: An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A list of single-event attributes (e.g., hot or cold attributes) is generated and includes a network address of an end user host originating a data call or a calling party identification (e.g., Automatic Number Identification (ANI) or an originating...

20050243985 - Method and system for presenting billing information according to a customer-defined hierarchal structure: A service for presenting billing information to a customer according to a hierarchal structure defined by the customer. The customer assigns telephone numbers to company units and defines how each of the units relate to each other in the hierarchal structure. The billing information associated with each assigned telephone number...

20050243986 - Dialog call-flow optimization: The present invention is concerned with reorganizing dialog call-flow in the presence of resource constraints. A call-flow has a set of dialogs. The set of grammars in a given call-flow set of dialogs is determined. Each grammar has an associated resource requirement. The resource constraint of the device is also...

20050243987 - Process and server for routing telephone calls: Process for managing calls to users of telecommunication networks, comprising the steps during which: the users each enter at least one call routing rule associating at least one condition applied to an incoming call characteristic with a routing action for the incoming call; a call routing server receives and determines...

20050243988 - Telephone switching system and method for alerting for priority calls: A method and apparatus are provided for providing a priority alert at a communication device for certain designated callers on a per call basis. Either a priority call is requested at call origination (302, 304, 306) or after a normal call is not answered (406). Where a priority call request...

20050243989 - Method of managing trunk and querying and ascertaining ring-back sound to provide ring-back sound in subscriber-based ring-back sound service: The present invention relates to a method of managing a trunk, and querying and ascertaining a ring-back sound to provide the ring-back sound in a subscriber-based ring-back sound service. In the trunk management method, a terminating mobile switching center (32) requests the intelligent peripheral (50) to release a trunk call...

20050243990 - Method and apparatus for pre-arranging telephone connections between identifiable parties: A system and method for pre-arranging telephone connections between identifiable parties is provided. A personal telephone includes an auto-rescheduling module, a resident directory, and a resident diary. When a call is received and the called party is not available, the auto-rescheduling module automatically checks the caller's identification in the resident...

20050243991 - Method for remote service forwarding (rsf) between dissimilar systems with operator, service and location portability: A remote service forwarding (RSF) system allows the telephone service user to access the subscribed services via different access devices without the loss of service. The system allows a user to access different systems or uses dissimilar phone devices or different service providers by porting services over an IP connection....

20050243992 - Telecommunications facility, group of telecommunication facilities, method of configuring and operating such group and software for identifying a client and a facility therein: A telecommunication group is formed by a multiplicity of private telecommunication facilities configured to connect calls between clients services by those facilities and subscribers of those clients based upon facility identification numbers AID and client identification numbers KID determined by dispatcher numbers from E.164 call numbers....

20050243993 - Multi-modal address book: A method is provided for synchronizing disparate customized address books which each include contact information including an email address for a customer. The method includes storing identification information for each communications partner. Each communications partner is associated with a different disparate customized address book. The identification information is used to...

20050243994 - Echo canceller having a frequency domain active region location estimator: Method and apparatus for canceling an echo path by locating an active region thereof for subsequent application of a filter thereto. A plurality of far-end signals RIN(n) and a corresponding plurality of near-end signals SIN(n) are acquired. Correlation within the far-end and near-end signals RIN(n) and SIN(n) is removed and...

20050243995 - Method and apparatus for canceling acoustic echo in a double-talk period: An apparatus and method for canceling an acoustic echo. In the apparatus, a double-talk detector detects whether a current period is a double-talk period or a single-talk period by determining whether a remote talker's signal and a local talker's signal are received simultaneously or at different times. A noise-robust affine...

20050243996 - System and method for providing particularized audible alerts: A system and method of generating at least two distinctive auditory alerts upon receiving a transmission or telephone call at a device is described. Data indicative of a first plurality of sounds corresponding to a user of a device configured to receive the transmission or telephone call is accessed, such...

20050243997 - Foldable mobile telephone with movable hinge: A foldable mobile telephone includes a first housing (10), a second housing (20), a connecting unit (30) and two turning shafts (40). The connecting unit includes a first connecting block (304), a second connecting block (306) and a hinge (302). The first connecting block and the second connecting block are...