Telephonic communications inventions 08/06

20060193444 - Line testing apparatus and method: The line test apparatus includes a PC (5) which stores known line test signature parameters for a number of known fault conditions in which by application of varying signals to a line pair (2,3) under test and capturing parameters during a period in which varying signals are applied to the...

20060193445 - Security telephone: A telephone security device is built into a telephone unit. The device includes a sensor to detect an intrusion into the area in which the telephone is located. Upon detection of an event, the device places the telephone off hook, and triggers the redial feature of the telephone. This causes...

20060193447 - Methods of placing emergency calls using data networks: Methods of placing emergency telephone calls using customer premises equipment at a customer premises may be provided. In particular, a data connection may be provided between the customer premises equipment at the customer premises and a data network, and a request for an emergency call being placed from the customer...

20060193446 - Systems and methods for providing 9-1-1 services to nomadic internet telephony callers: A system for facilitating 9-1-1 service delivery to internet telephony customers is provided. The system includes a server device for receiving a 9-1-1 call from a user device via a data network, where the 9-1-1 call are based on “9-1-1” digits dialed at the user device. The server device is...

20060193448 - Method and apparatus for augmenting voice data on a mobile device call: A computer method and system for portable phone devices enable a user to compose and send a data message (e.g., a photo/image) during a voice call. The data message includes any of image data, audio (music) packette, an electronic calendar entry/event, contact information, HTML, text-based data, video data, multimedia and...

20060193449 - Method and system for an automated departure strategy: A method and system for an automated departure strategy from an automated system includes a track engine and an error engine. The track engine allows for the tracking and storing of one or more utterances spoken by a caller in response to one or more prompts. In addition, the track...

20060193450 - Communication conversion between text and audio: Techniques and tools are described for converting incoming and/or outgoing communications to usable and convenient formats. For example, a user selects a desired profile from a group of available profiles, and the selected profile is activated. If a first profile is selected and an incoming communication having a textual component...

20060193451 - Audible announcement played to calling party before establishment of two party stable call: An audible announcement is played to a calling party, upon initiation of a call to a called party, before establishment of the call as a two party stable call between the calling party and the called party. The audible announcement comprises one or more of: a number of the called...

20060193452 - Method and apparatus for providing default media content to a calling party: Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting default content to a caller when a media stream of the specified type is not available. If it is determined that a destination endpoint is not providing a media stream of a first media type to an originating endpoint, a transmission of default...

20060193453 - Telephone call screening system and method and caller registration system and method for use therewith: A telephone call screening system screens telephone calls placed to a subscriber based upon a preferred caller database established by the subscriber from a networked caller registry database. A caller registration system allows callers to select a private identifier unique to the caller and registers the callers in a caller...

20060193454 - Time delay compensation device for the management of multimedia communications via an asynchronous network and a telephone network: A device is dedicated to managing multimedia communications via an asynchronous network (IPN) and a telephone network (TDMN) between firstly a first audio communications terminal (T1) with a first video communications terminal (PC1), and secondly a second audio communications terminal (T2) with a second video communications terminal (PC2). The device...

20060193455 - System and method for establishing a call between a calling party and a called party over a wired network: A system and method for establishing a telephone call between a calling party telephone and a called party telephone over a wired network. A telephone number associated with the called party telephone is monitored using a telephone status monitor to obtain a status of the called party telephone. The status...

20060193456 - System and method for obtaining equipment status data over a network: A system and method for equipment status data over a network. Equipment adapted for reporting status data indicative of the status of the equipment is connected to a first network A status file connected to the first network receives the status data from the equipment over the first network. A...

20060193457 - Communication systems and methods for switching communication services: Provided is a communication system including a first, a second, a third, and a fourth apparatuses, in which the first and the second apparatuses communicate with each other over a first communication service, and the third and the fourth apparatuses communicate with each other over a second communication service. The...

20060193458 - Telephony apparatus: A system and methods through which incoming calls to and/or outgoing calls from a telephone can be controlled. The present invention utilizes an authorized caller list to determine whether an incoming call should be connected, and a similar list to determine whether an outgoing call should be connected. The present...

20060193460 - Method and system for forwarding telephone calls based on presence information: A call forwarding system forwards telephone calls based on presence information of a user as reported by computing devices associated with a telephone number. When a telephone system receives an incoming call directed to one of the telephone numbers of the user's computing devices, it sends an incoming call event...

20060193459 - Method and system for muting audio based on a call event: A muting system that allows audio of a computing device to be automatically muted when a telephone call is received on a telephone number associated with the computing device is provided. When an incoming call event occurs for that telephone number, the computing device directs a software component to mute...

20060193461 - Method and system for dynamically terminating wireless and wireline calls between carriers: A third party tandem provider that intercepts and routes voice and data traffic between telecommunications carriers, e.g., wireless carriers, local exchange carriers, and long distance carriers, by dynamically determining the actual terminating switch for a call using a plurality of proprietary databases versus terminating calls merely based on the switch...

20060193462 - System for optimizing configurable information handling systems: In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method for automatically optimizing configuration of an information handling system based upon predefined goals which include providing the predefined goals to a configurator, performing a needs based optimization based upon the predefined goals and indicating a preferred information handling system configuration based...

20060193463 - Arrangement and method for replacement of program data of a control unit: In an arrangement and method for replacement of program data stored in a first control unit, the first control unit is connected with at least one second control unit via a data connection. The arrangement also has a first operating system stored in a first storage region of the first...

20060193464 - Method and apparatus for soft-response echo suppression: Methods and apparatus are provided for reducing echo from a received signal. A suppression gain is applied to an output of an echo canceler that has processed the received signal. The suppression gain includes a region of sloping attenuation about a decision point. The echo canceler optionally estimates an echo...

20060193465 - System and method for subliminal time domain duplexing: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for transmitting a data-bearing signal and a non-data-bearing signal. One embodiment comprises communicatively coupling a data-bearing signal during a first time period and communicatively coupling a non-data-bearing signal during a second time period. The data-bearing signal has a first PSD. The non-data-bearing signal...

20060193466 - Remote multipoint architecture for full-duplex audio: A method, microphone module and a system for full-duplex audio system implementing full duplex audio, audio echo cancellation and audio codec. The audio signals from the microphones and to the loudspeakers are encoded to reduce the transmission bandwidth requirement during wired or wireless transmission and decoded when needed for further...

20060193467 - Access control in a computer system: A technique for controlling a software process's access to securable objects that utilizes the native security mechanisms of an operating system. According to an aspect of the technique (i) a group is created, (ii) rights for the group are defined, (iii) the group is associated with a program image and...

20060193468 - Character arrangements, input methods and input device: The present invention relates to character arrangements, input methods and input device. More particularly, the present invention relates to Korean, English and symbols arrangements that are effectively arranged on a limited number of buttons, input methods using the character arrangements and input device thereof. The present invention provides fundamental and...

20060193469 - Parallel plane rotation hinge for a portable device: Parallel plane rotation hinge for a portable device. The hinge includes a pin defining a rotational axis and a cam having an inner cam track and an outer cam track. A follower surrounding the pin is rotationally fixed and axially slidable with respect to the pin, and includes inner and...

20060188072 - Circuit arrangement for a corrosion protection current feed and for a line test for two-wire lines: A circuit arrangement for a line test and for feeding a corrosion protection current into a two-wire line comprises a controllable ramp generator for producing a ramp voltage, at least one first test impedance to be connected to a first line of a two-wire line, at least one second test...

20060188073 - Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a e911 network: A method for providing a E911 edge network. The method includes assigning public safety answering points (PSAPs) to ports located in a network, where each of the ports is associated with a calling party number (CPN) and a geographic location. The method also includes identifying an incoming emergency call from...

20060188075 - Systems and methods for presenting end to end calls and associated information: Systems and methods that, among other things, analyze and monitor the performance of a call center including performance of the interactive voice response (IVR) systems, call center agents, and other components of the call center. The systems and methods record characteristics of the call such as the audio data, and...

20060188074 - Telecommunications services apparatus and method: In a text message processing system, an SMS router (3) can recognise a predefined arrangement of one or more characters, such as “*”, as a suffix to a destination address of a message being submitted by a mobile telephone (1) to the system. Upon such recognition, a function required by...

20060188076 - Technique for verifying identities of users of a communications service by voiceprints: A voiceprint of a calling party, and identifying information, are obtained during a call. One or more voiceprint samples stored in association with the identifying information are selected, and the calling party's identity is verified based on a comparison of the voiceprint to at least one of the selected voiceprint...

20060188077 - Method for verifying access authorization for voice telephony in a fixed network line or mobile telephone line as well as a communications network: A method for verifying access authorization for voice telephony in a fixed network line or mobile telephone line, as well as a communications network having such access authorization verification are described. The access authorization is verified by analysis of a voice signal which was entered by the subscriber placing the...

20060188078 - Call management using call routing engine: A telephone call management system first receives a call over a telephone network from a calling device. The calling device is connected to a first called device by a first connection through the telephone network. A first call management message is received at a call routing engine, the first call...

20060188079 - Method of controlling the user calling load in soft switch system: The method of controlling the user calling load in Soft Switch system in present invention comprises the steps of: basic calling module receives the congestion direction message; judge whether the system congestion indicated by said congestion direction message is sporadic or sustaining; control the switching of user calling load according...

20060188081 - Systems and methods for call measurement: Systems and methods for call measurement services. The system includes a routing system, a client database, and a call block database. The routing system is configured to receiving an incoming call containing incoming call data which may include an original dialed number and a caller identifier. The client database stores...

20060188080 - Voip call through tester: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for verifying the routing of a call through a network, including: generating an outbound call from a test tool in a first network, the outbound call including a test key and a destination number, the destination number being associated...

20060188082 - Geographical call routing for a non-emergency calling service: At least one call is routed based on a location of a calling party. A calling party calls a service corresponding to at least one predefined service area, and it is ascertained whether the calling party is within the at least one predefined service area. When the calling party is...

20060188083 - Methods and systems for providing foreign call back number compatibility for voip e9-1-1 calls: Systems and methods provide foreign call back number compatibility. The systems and methods receive a local telephone number assigned to a subscriber, the subscriber having a non-local telephone number as the normal calling number of the subscriber. Furthermore, the systems and methods query a database with the local telephone number...

20060188084 - Call management system with call control from user workstation computers: A call management method and system. The system includes at least one user position, comprising a computer workstation and a telephone apparatus that is associated with the computer workstation. In addition, the system includes a call management computer comprising a memory; and a digital data network to connect the computer...

20060188085 - Call center study method and system: Studies of call center activities are performed by using a tool having timer buttons for timing call activities during a live or recorded call. Code values are assigned to specific activities and activity subtypes. The calls are assigned to a plurality of reviewers who gather data using the tool. Reviewer...

20060188086 - Automatic call distribution system using computer network-based communication: Multiple communication types are integrated into a call center. The communication types can be chat, email, Internet Protocol (IP) voice, traditional telephone, web page, digital image, digital video and other types. Features of the invention include allowing a single agent to handle multiple customers on multiple channels, or “endpoints.” Prioritizing...

20060188087 - System and method for caller-controlled music on-hold: The present disclosure provides a system and method configured to provide a caller with selectable music options when the caller is on hold. The method establishes a connection between a caller and a receiving system, wherein the receiving system is configured to retrieve one of the plurality of music selections....

20060188088 - Line sharing multipoint pots splitter with intelligent termination: The present invention provides for a system and method for blocking leakage signals and uncoupling connections in a communication system. A leakage signal (LS) blocking splitter employs a high-pass filter which effectively blocks the lower frequency leakage signal. The high-pass filter (an LS filter) has a cut-off frequency selected to...

20060188089 - Reduction in acoustic coupling in communication systems and appliances using multiple microphones: A system and method of digitally modeling and significantly reducing the direct coupling between a telephone appliance loudspeaker and microphone employs a handset microphone in a phone appliance, such as, for example, a speakerphone, as a reference channel along with the speakerphone microphone to reduce the direct coupling between the...

20060188090 - Power supply housing for network interface device: The disclosure is directed to an active network interface device (NID) having a battery module enclosure that is mountable between a NID enclosure and a wall or surface at a subscriber premises. The battery module enclosure defines a compartment for receiving a battery module and a NID enclosure that serves...

20060188091 - Portable electronic device with a keyboard mechanism: A portable electronic device includes a housing including at a hole, an elastic structure including at an actuator wedged in the hole of the housing, and a circuit board installed below the housing. A metal dome is located corresponding to the actuator for outputting a key signal when pressed....

20060188092 - Mobile terminal with a hinge, a method of operating the mobile terminal and a hinge: A mobile terminal, such as a mobile telephone, has a hinge with a helical spring and which provides both snap opening or automatic opening upon activation of a release means as well as a freely selectable angular position between the rotating parts of the terminal. Also a new type of...

20060182229 - Sata device having self-test function for oob-signaling: Disclosed is a SATA device having self-testing function with an OOB-signaling operation and a method of testing the same. The SATA device includes target and test-signaling controllers that sequentially generate and transceive control signals for the OOB-signaling operation. The SATA device also includes a test flow controller regulating the flow...

20060182230 - Systems, methods and computer program products for automatically pushing a status change message as a result of repair services that are performed on a network: A network administration system includes an Internet-based repair (eRepair) subsystem that is configured to accept customer trouble tickets related to a network and to provide customer trouble ticket status information to customers. The administration system also includes a Work Force and Administration-Control (WFA/C) subsystem that is configured to manage repair...

20060182231 - Apparatus and method for processing acquired signals for measuring the impedance of a device under test: A method and apparatus adapted to calibrate a test probe and oscilloscope system such that digital samples acquired by the system are processed for representing the impedance of a device under test. The method and apparatus calibrates the test probe to characterize transfer parameters of the device under test within...

20060182234 - Call processing system with call screening: A system is described in which call processing considers unique information about the call to better serve the caller and/or to enable the called party to more efficiently handle the call. In one embodiment, the unique information considered by the call processor is information indicator digits, which may indicate to...

20060182233 - Erasure of dtmf signal transmitted as speech data: A DTMF signal processing apparatus of the present invention comprises a data divider unit, a DTMF signal component analyzer unit, a weighting processing unit, a buffer, a DTMF signal erasure determination unit, and a DTMF signal erasure processing unit. The data divider unit divides speech data into a plurality of...

20060182232 - System and method for the playing of key phrases in voice mail messages: A method is provided for playing one or more key portions of a voice communication. The method includes storing, in a memory, a communication that includes one or more speech signals and a tag identifying a key portion of the one or more speech signals. The communication and the tag...

20060182235 - Mobile communication terminal and method: A method for sending messages from a mobile communication apparatus, including the steps of determining a message text; converting the message text to an audio signal including speech; and sending the audio signal to a receiver by a short audio message, and a computer program for performing the method. Further,...

20060182236 - Speech conversion for text messaging: Some embodiments provide conversion of an audio signal to text by a portable device, and transmission of the text from a portable device using a text messaging service. According to some aspects, an analog audio signal is received, the analog audio signal is converted to text, and the text is...

20060182238 - Method and apparatus for voice message editing: A method and apparatus for voice message editing, particularly a method and apparatus for splicing voicemails sections together. A system, method and computer program product are described for forming a voice message on an interactive voice response system (IVR) spoken by a user including recording a first voice message where...

20060182239 - Process for synchronizing a speech service and a visual presentation: A process for synchronizing speech information on a first terminal and a visual presentation of data on a second terminal, the first terminal managing a speech communication channel towards a speech server, the second terminal managing a data communication channel towards a contents distribution server, which includes the steps of:...

20060182237 - System and method for healthcare personnel notification and tracking: The embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for notifying healthcare personnel including identifying a particular notification recipient, identifying at least one predetermined notification rule for the particular recipient, selecting a device of the recipient to receive a notification message, the device being selected according to...

20060182240 - Power and telecommunications access vending machine: A vending machine for dispensing telecommunications access is disclosed. A customer interested in using the telecommunications access makes a payment into the payment processing unit which forwards the payment information to the central control unit. The central control unit reports the transaction information to a central computer system via its...

20060182241 - System providing direct internet access in public or semi-public places: A vending machine for dispensing telecommunications access is disclosed. A customer interested in using the telecommunications access makes a payment into the payment processing unit which forwards the payment information to the central control unit. The central control unit reports the transaction information to a central computer system via its...

20060182242 - Method and device for obtaining data related to the presence and/or availability of a user: A method is provided, which includes a configuration phase that includes a stage for saving the first data multiplets each associated with a user identity, an expression composed of at least one word and at least one presence and/or availability data element. It also includes a usage phase that includes...

20060182243 - Method for providing call intermediation services and system therefore: Disclosed is a method and system for providing call intermediation services. The method for providing the call intermediation services allows a user to automatically make a call with a company if a user inputs only the telephone number on the web. After confirming the company profile of the Internet portal...

20060182244 - Local routing system and method: A telecommunications system determines a telecommunications service provider's routing preference for routing a call for a subscriber. The telecommunications system includes a storage that stores call routing data and a call routing service application for determining the routing preference using the call routing data. The call routing data includes an...

20060182245 - System and method for providing a personalized identity to a destination: An identification manager provides a user-generated identity of an initiating party during a connection to a destination. The identification manager includes an identity store for storing user-generated identities, and an identity provider associated with the identity store, for retrieving, from the identity store, a user-generated identity of the initiating party,...

20060182246 - Maintenance information communication terminal, image forming apparatus provided with same, maintenance information management host,and communication method: A maintenance information communication terminal, the terminal exchanging maintenance information on an apparatus to be maintenanced with a maintenance information management host, the terminal and the host being connectable together by a line, the apparatus connected to the terminal, the terminal comprising: a host number memory section that stores a...

20060182247 - Change to playback characteristic of ringback tone: A playback characteristic of a ringback tone, played to a calling communication device employed by a user for a call to a called communication device, is changed based on input from the user of the calling communication device....

20060182248 - Incoming call screening, control and prioritisation in a telephone device: A circuit for a telephone such as a mobile radiotelephone. The circuit has a memory for storing phonebook items and for storing group attributes associated with phonebook items, a connection to a radiotelephone receiver for receiving telephone calls and calling party identifications, and a controller for selecting the disposition of...

20060182249 - Meeting lobby for web conferencing: A conferencing system provides the scheduling of virtual meetings with meeting lobbies so that a meeting presenter can conduct a virtual meeting without the need to send out invitations to attendees. A person that wants to conduct a virtual meeting can schedule with the conferencing system a meeting with a...

20060182250 - Application independent call initiation: There are disclosed methods and apparatus for telephone call initiation. An application program causes a telephone number to be displayed. A user activates the displayed telephone number. A telephone call module recognizes the activation of the displayed telephone number and causes a signal to be sent to a switch instructing...

20060182251 - Call establishment based on presence: An apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable a caller to specify a condition of availability for a return call when the caller is unable to reach the called user. A condition might indicate a time interval in which the caller is willing to accept a return call, a location,...

20060182252 - Method and apparatus for maintaining automated call transfers between service centers: In a call transfer system (110) a computer program can transfer a calling party (102A) communicating with a first agent (106A) at a first communication switch when said first communication switch does not support automated call transfers. The computer program includes instructions for receiving (212) a call from the first...

20060182253 - Unifying business process object modeling: A unifying process object modeling is disclosed. The unifying process of object modeling creates a fully traceable service construct that progressively cascades or decomposes from high level business need into standardized business processes, that in turn comprise standardized functions, that in turn comprise standardized tasks and data elements, that in...

20060182254 - Unrecognized number identifier: Communication address identification information is obtained. A communication address number is collected from a customer at a telecommunications apparatus in response to a trigger being initiated at a switch and a connection being established between the switch and the telecommunications apparatus. Communication address identification information is obtained from a memory...

20060182255 - Resilient regisration with a call manager: Registering with a call manager includes connecting to a first call manager and a second call manager. The endpoints register with the first call manager and send keep-alive signals to the first call manager and the second call manager. If a failure is detected in the first call manager, the...

20060182256 - Method and system for handling calls in a communication network: A call processing system receives a call request, and in response, generates a call identification, establishes context information, and transfers the call identification and the context information. A context server receives the call identification and the context information, and in response, stores the context information in association with the call...

20060182257 - Method and apparatus for notifying the calling party about the status of the called endpoint: The present invention enables a packet-switched network, e.g., a VoIP network, to play a network announcement as to the true status of a subscribed residential user on busy or unanswered conditions. The called party can subscribe to this service feature so that callers, the calling parties, will be informed that...

20060182258 - Contact-center routing based on games or contests involving the agents: A new routing protocol for routing service requests in a contact center is provided that takes into account the results of games played by the agents and the game actions of the agents. The system communicates the game to the agent. Agents in turn select game actions. The results of...

20060182259 - Method and system using presence information to improve services provided by automatic call distribution centers: In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method using presence information to improve automatic call distribution includes receiving a call for connection with one of a plurality of agents. An indicator of a service level problem is detected, and presence information is used to identify one...

20060182260 - Personal communication center performance display and status alert system: In a call center having agent stations including personal computers having video display units (PC/VDUs), connected on a LAN with a server tracking status for call center entities, a system for agent information includes a software application executing on individual PC/VDUs at agent stations. The software application draws on status...

20060182261 - Method and system for providing a service: The present invention provides an efficient and simple method and system for providing a customer with a service upon a service request. The invention is based on retrieving a dataset from a database for identifying a qualified service person using information about the service, the service person and the customer,...

20060182262 - Auxiliary power conservation for telecommunications site: A method and/or system (24) is provided for managing power in a telecommunications site (20) having an auxiliary power supply (22) that selectively powers the site (20) when an outage is experienced in connection with a primary power (30) supply for the site (20). The method includes: detecting a power...

20060182263 - Method and apparatus for translating a dialed string entered by a calling party: A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically translating the dialed string entered by a calling party to identify a called party into another dialed string. The string translation may be based, for example, on characteristics of the telephone number or telephone terminal of the calling party or characteristics of...

20060182264 - System and method for preventing telephone line blocking by a modem: A modem includes modem circuitry and modem software that is executed by a processor. When the modem circuitry detects that the modem software is nonfunctional, it enters an on-hook state to prevent blocking of a coupled telephone line. A nonfunctional state of the modem software is detected when the modem...

20060182265 - Multi-stage amplifiers to reduce pop noise: An amplifier (50) for voice or audio signals, and particularly for headset applications, uses a low gm amplifier (54) for initially charging an output node (OUT) at the beginning of a power-on phase. After charging the output node, a main amplifier (56) is enabled to amplify the voice or audio...

20060182266 - Track and hold circuit to reduce pop noise: An amplifier (50) for voice or audio signals, and particularly for headset applications, uses a low gm amplifier (54) for initially charging an output node (OUT) at the beginning of a power-on phase. After charging the output node, a main amplifier (56) is enabled to amplify the voice or audio...

20060182267 - Method and system for adjusting line interface level to compensate for induced loss: An induced loss value is retrieved from a configuration file of an MTA device. The loss value is provided to a signal generator that generates call progress/alerting signals and FSK signals in the MTA telephony device. To mitigate the imbalance between incoming voice signal levels and call progress/alerting signals that...

20060182268 - Audio system: The present invention relates to an audio communication system and method with improved acoustic characteristics. In particular, the present invention discloses a system and a method for modifying the loudspeaker signal for allowing improved echo cancellation of the audio signal captured by the microphone without deteriorate the perceptual stereo (or...

20060182269 - Wire network mapping method and apparatus using impulse responses: A method and apparatus for mapping a wire network is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a reflectometry test signal of the wire network. An estimated network impulse response is estimated from the reflectometry response. A wire network model is then initialized, and iteratively improved by simulating an impulse response of...

20060182270 - Apparatus and method for communications: A personal communications device is integrated with a hat. The hat provides support for the communications device and may also protect a user against the elements (e.g., rain, sun, snow). The hat may also be of any style (men's or women's), including, but not limited to; billed caps, such as...

20060182271 - Communication apparatus and control program product: A communication apparatus including: a main device that has: a selection unit that selects one registration number from among provided registration numbers; a main device registration unit that transmits the registration number selected by the selection unit to an additional device and stores information to the effect that the selected...

20060182272 - Portable electronic apparatus: A portable electronic apparatus, a mobile phone and a method of selecting a function in a portable electronic apparatus are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus comprises a body and a lid pivotally mounted to the body with a hinge. Changes in the position of the lid around the hinge are...

20060177003 - Apparatus and method for extracting a test signal section from an audio signal: For extracting signal test sections conforming to an auditory test from an audio signal, in particular for non-intrusive tests for a quality assessment of a transmission system, first of all a temporal structure of the audio signal is parsed in order to differentiate an information-carrying section of the audio signal...

20060177004 - Apparatus and method for monitoring network resources: A method and apparatus for monitoring network resources is disclosed. Code for use in instructing components in a network monitoring system is provided. The components include at least one data gathering for gathering operation data from a monitor network constituent. A main computer system has a database for storing the...

20060177007 - Caching message information in an integrated communication system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177010 - Caching user information in an integrated communication system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177006 - Controlling messaging actions using form-based user interface: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177008 - Extensible diagnostic tool: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177013 - Form-based user interface for controlling messaging: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177009 - Integrated multi-media communication system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177015 - Message data access in multi-media integrated communication system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177012 - Networked voicemail: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177011 - System and method for providing code on voicemail appliance: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177014 - System and method for providing data on voicemail appliance: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177016 - System and method for remote access to a telephone: A remote access system between a remote client and an office telephone via a packet network on a point-to-point basis is provided. The office center includes a web server having a web page stored thereon and a PBX system. During a remote session, incoming communications to the PBX continue to...

20060177005 - System and method for voicemail privacy: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177017 - Device for converting voice to numeral: A device for converting voices to numerals is applied to an on-board navigation system having a mobile phone operated hands-free. Voice signals inputted into the device are processed to specify a spelling of a word represented by the voice signals using a voice-spelling database stored in the device. A series...

20060177018 - Coherent interleaved sampling: A method and apparatus for digitizing a repetitive signal having a long pattern length is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining a clock period to be used when sampling the repetitive signal and determining a frame period of the repetitive signal. Thereafter, a sampling period is selected that...

20060177019 - Apparatus and method for organization and interpretation of multimedia data on a recording medium: Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying multimedia data, to be described in the format of MusicPhotoVideo(MPV) format, wherein, when an asset selected by a user is comprised of a single audio data and at least one or more image data, the audio data is provided and at least one or...

20060177020 - Method and system for call answer while connected to voice mail: A method and system for call answer while connected to voice mail includes generating real-time packets for transmission of a message toward a voice mail system. Generation of the real-time packets is interrupted upon a call answer by a party generating the message. Generation of the real-time packets for transmission...

20060177021 - Multi-mode message routing and management: Transmission of messages composed on one or more input devices to a single or multiple recipients by means of one or plural communication modes is facilitated. Such communication modes may include conventional or wireless telephone, facsimile transmission, pager, e-mail, postal mail or courier. Thus, a message may be directed to...

20060177022 - Voice message processing system and method: The present invention proposes a voice message processing system and method employed to convert voice message received by a network phone into text message to be outputted by a network device connected to the network phone, the network phone interconnecting the network device via a network server, so that the...

20060177023 - Distributed cache system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177024 - Integrated voice mail user/email system user setup in integrated multi-media communication system: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177025 - Integrating messaging server directory service with a communication system voice mail message interface: An integrated messaging system for performing various types of messaging across different types of networks, including integrated user interfaces and administrator interfaces. Embodiments include a communication server that couples among networks of different types, and an interface module that couples to the communication server. The interface module may be hosted...

20060177026 - Telephone exchange and communication terminal: A telephone exchange is connected to a communication terminal installed in a predetermined region through a network. The telephone exchange includes: a reference time acquisition unit that acquires a reference time; a storage unit that stores time difference information concerning a time difference between a local standard time of the...

20060177027 - \"fone fun\" word game apparatus and method: A word game device and method is disclosed wherein the user is provided: a numeric clue comprising a sequence of numeric digits; a word hint comprising a single word or a sequence of words; and a word answer corresponding with said numeric clue when decrypted using a telephone keypad alphanumeric...

20060177028 - System and method for services access: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in services access. For example, a node and/or other computer that moves to another area may act to determine the availability of services to which service entries correspond, and/or the availability of similar services. As another example, a node and/or other computer that moves...

20060177029 - Virtual multi-line telephone service: A method for providing a virtual multi-line (VML) telephone service includes associating first and second telephone numbers with a telephone, such that the first telephone number is subject to a first billing scheme and the second number is subject to a second billing scheme. A control code is transmitted from...

20060177030 - Methods and systems for automatic forwarding of communications to a preferred device: Methods and systems for routing a communication to a preferred device are disclosed. A service center consistent with the present invention is operable to receive information pertaining to a communication to a user from a calling party, and retrieve data corresponding to the user using the received information. The service...

20060177031 - Vault guard for providing security and preventing vandalism: The invention is a guard for preventing the vandalism of the vault and vault door of a pay telephone. The inventive guard includes a plurality of attachment points and an extended perimeter member. The attachment points have a shoulder raised above the exterior surface of the inventive guard. When a...

20060177032 - Call extension in telecommunications systems: A method is disclosed that enables a user of one telecommunications terminal that is engaged in a call to move or “extend” the call to a second telecommunications terminal without notifying any other party on the call of the move. This is particularly useful in many situations. For example, the...

20060177033 - Call management system: There is disclosed a system for managing calls between parties in a telecommunication network, the system comprising a database (16,33) having a plurality of records, at least some of the records defining at least one ring time out parameter (RTP), each RTP specifying when a call will be terminated without...

20060177034 - Methods and systems for configuring and providing conference calls: Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. Once identified, each participant user is contacted and...

20060177035 - System and method for jurisdictional routing: A method and system for routing a call based on calling device type is disclosed. In a communication network, an originating switch may receive a call request from a calling device seeking to connect with a dialed number. The originating switch may responsively send into a signaling system a call-setup...

20060177036 - System and method for providing a dial plan conversion in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method to be executed in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes initiating a conversion process that involves a change from a first communications platform to a second communications platform. One or more routing tables associated with the first communications platform are then dumped. A conversion...

20060177039 - System and method for providing a dial plan conversion in a session initiation protocol (sip) environment: A method to be executed in a session initiation protocol (SIP) environment is provided that includes initiating a conversion process that involves a change from a first communications platform to a second communications platform. One or more routing tables associated with the first communications platform are then dumped. A conversion...

20060177037 - Systems and methods for processing telephone calls: A system includes a switching device. The switching device is configured to process a call request as a 12-digit telephone number in a first situation. The 12-digit telephone number includes an area code and 9 digits after the area code. The switching device is further configured to process the call...

20060177038 - Systems and methods for processing telephone calls: A system includes a switching device. The switching device is configured to process a call request as a 12-digit telephone number. The 12-digit telephone number includes a 3-digit area code, a 4-digit location independent code, and a 5-digit location dependent code....

20060177040 - Call center system for multiple transaction selections: A user interface for an agent of a call center comprises a transaction menu that lists possible transactions that the agent can fulfill. Multiple transactions selected by the agent from the transaction menu are ordered into a first sequence of agent-selected transactions that are to be fulfilled in a call,...

20060177041 - Method and system to project staffing needs using predictive modeling: A method to project staffing needs may include predetermining an optimal prediction method for predicting staffing needs from a plurality of prediction methods based on at least one of a center, a target day in a forecasting horizon and a time interval using historical data. The method may also include...

20060177042 - Distributor with a test access: The invention relates to a distribution frame (1) for telecommunications and data technology, the distribution frame (1) having a system side and a subscriber side, which are each formed by at least one distribution frame connection module (2, 3), the distribution frame connection modules (2, 3) each having a jumper...

20060177043 - Method and apparatus for supporting enhanced international dialing in cellular systems: A method and apparatus are provided that support enhanced international dialing in cellular systems using handset based code dialing. According to one aspect, the handset analyzes the dialed digits before sending the dialed number to the network. If the dialed digits begin with the country code of the area from...

20060177044 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing tone services: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing tone services are provided. Methods include associating a tone with a communications address and storing results of the associating in a profile record. In response to receiving an incoming call directed to the communications address, the methods include accessing the profile record...

20060177045 - Echo processing method and device: The invention concerns a method and device for processing echo between at least two communication devices in order to attenuate, in a picked-up signal of a communication device comprising at least one microphone, the components of the signal broadcasted by at least one other communication device comprising at least one...

20060177046 - Dynamic volume control: In accordance with one aspect of the dynamic volume control, an indication that a user desires to input oral data to a system through one or more microphones of the system is received. In response to receipt of the indication, a volume level for audible signals output by one or...

20060177047 - Keypad guard for providing security and preventing vandalism to a pay telephone keypad: The invention is a guard for preventing the vandalism of a pay telephone keypad. Additionally, the invention prevents access to a pay telephone coin vault through the keypad. The inventive guard includes a plurality of attachment points. The attachment points have a shoulder raised above the exterior surface of the...

20060177048 - Foldable cellular phone: A foldable cellular phone with a plastic housing having an operation section and a plastic housing having a main display section that are joined by a hinge on one end side to freely open and close, comprising an impact resistant handle composed of elastic material protruded and formed on the...

20060177049 - Cordless telephone set and additional device of the same: An additional device for a cordless telephone set, including: a communication unit that makes radio communication with a main device; a communication control unit that decides a radio channel for communication available to transmit and receive a signal to or from the main device; a display unit that displays information;...

20060171509 - Method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers: A method and system for managing a service level of a service provided by a service provider to a customer under a service level agreement. The actual measurement data is adjudicated to correct the measurement data in accordance with at least one adjudication element that provides information relating to how...

20060171510 - Tty communication over packet networks: A system to enable TTY communication between a legacy TTY phone and an IP phone over a packet network using a TTY relay protocol established between the IP phone and a media gateway at a central office of the PSTN. The system may also use a voice over Internet Protocol...

20060171511 - Saving information from information retrieval systems: A method and system for allowing a calling party to save information obtained from an information retrieval system. The caller may select options to save the information to a memory location, e.g., the caller's own network-based voice mail system or a temporary voice mailbox provided for the caller by the...

20060171512 - Figure having answering device: An elongated statute has a widened base for receiving a fluid-filled container. The container retains a plastic indicator which floats in the liquid retained within the container. The bottom of the answering device has a clear window through which the indicator can be seen. The statute has a religious shape...

20060171514 - Apparatus and method for channel-transparent multimedia broadcast messaging: An apparatus and method are provided for addressing and broadcasting a message to recipients having both telephone network-based receiving devices and data network-based receiving devices. The apparatus includes a message router that translates the broadcast message into individual messages that are addressed to each message recipient in a format, e.g.,...

20060171513 - Information processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing method is provided for use with an information processing apparatus capable of sending data of a sending job to an external destination and capable of selectively utilizing a plurality of types of destination specification methods as a method for specifying a destination of the data of the...

20060171515 - Method and apparatus for providing an interactive presentation environment: An interactive presentation environment for eMeetings or the like that provides participants with more control over what they see and hear. One embodiment of the interactive presentation environment comprises a meeting recorder adapted to create a recording of a live meeting and a navigation control for selecting a portion of...

20060171516 - Phone apparatus combined with keyboard: A phone apparatus combined with keyboard comprising a keyboard. A sound transmission device and a phone line socket are disposed on one side of the keyboard. The phone line socket is connected to a phone module in the keyboard, resulting in having both a computer operation and a communicated function...

20060171517 - Credit card collect call system and method: A system is provided for connecting collect calls. A collect call number for the collect call is received. A blocking status of the collect call number is determined. The collect call number is dialed. A call recipient is prompted to accept the collect call and to select a billing option...

20060171518 - Method and system for termination blocking of message delivery service: A method (20) and system (50) is provided that permits a telephone caller to leave a message for a called party that does not have a conventional answering service, such as voice mail, an answering machine, a third-party operator-assisted answering service, or the like. A configurable blocking mechanism is also...

20060171519 - Method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold: A method and apparatus for managing incoming and outgoing calls at an endpoint placed on hold are disclosed. A first call that includes an outbound media stream is established on a network between a first endpoint and a second endpoint. The first endpoint detects that the first call was placed...

20060171520 - Telephone search supported by keyword map to advertising: A technology platform for the delivery of dynamic, interactive audio advertisements which may be played in response to a consumer initiated request for information via a telephone. More specifically, the invention provides advertising supported information services that are related to a keyword specified in the consumer initiated request. In one...

20060171521 - Intelligent access control system: In operational environments where local loop generation equipment is used, communication interruptions between a central office and a customer premises device is minimized by using a dedicated communications link between the local loop generation equipment and the central office. A processing mechanism at the central office determines if, when, and...

20060171522 - Method and system for providing the name of the state of a calling party: A method for providing the names of the city and state of a calling party to a called party when the calling party's name is unavailable. The method utilizes the calling party's telephone number to determine the names of the city and state from which the calling party is calling....

20060171523 - Method of automatically replicating data objects between a mobile device and a server: Network operators can control how data replication services use available bandwidth, in order to make the most efficient usage of that bandwidth, using parameters applied to a data object to be replicated. The parameters may be both time dependent and also relate to how urgently that object needs to be...

20060171524 - Collapsible mobile telephone device: A fold type portable telephone device comprises a memory part for memorizing an incoming call history, an incoming call history read-out part, a display part, an open/close detector of a casing, and an automatic calling part for automatically dialing when the open/close detector detects that the casing is open. When...

20060171525 - Telephone for searching memory content using a simple user operation: A telephone enabling a user to search a telephone directory using a simple and trouble-free operation. The telephone has a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers, and an operating unit including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters. The telephone...

20060171526 - Method and apparatus for active reduction of speakerphone singing: In a speakerphone device identification of signals (i.e., voice input or speaker output) in a process for reducing acoustic feedback, in a communication device, is accomplished by adding a signature noise (i.e., an identification mark) to output signals radiated by the speaker to enable these signals to be separated from...

20060171527 - Switched supply coupling for driver: A driver is operated to drive signals from an integrated circuit. Operating the driver generates interference at substantially a first frequency that may interfere with circuitry sharing a power supply with the driver. A supply node is repeatedly coupled to and decoupled from the driver at substantially a second frequency...

20060171528 - Speech communication system and talker right reservation method: A speech communication system includes a plurality of portable terminals and a server device. The sever device manages the talker right specifying a terminal which transmits speech when speech communication is performed between the portable terminals. The portable terminal includes a registration request notification unit. The registration request notification unit...

20060171529 - Hinge structure of folding type mobile communication device: Disclosed are a mobile communication device and a hinge structure therefor with improved mechanical strength and outer appearance. The mobile communication device 100 comprises the lower case 11 and the upper case 21 mutually coupled to each other by way of the hinge structure so that the two cases 11,...