Telephonic communications inventions 03/07

20070071177 - Digital subscriber line diagnostic system: A communication device transmits very low frequency signals in order to help diagnose the cause of a communication problem in a DSL communication system. The communication problem may be, for example, the inability of a remote data transceiver unit (DTU-R) to successfully train-up with a central data transceiver unit (DTU-C).... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070071178 - Exchange system, button telephone set and exchange: According to one embodiment, a button telephone set, comprising function keys equipped with light emitting devices, respectively, display device which displays character information, failure information receiving unit which receives data notified from the exchange, display determining unit which determines display types of the function keys from types of the received... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070071179 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a detector which detects a failure of communication between the telephone exchange apparatus and the server apparatus, a restoring unit which restores a connection between the telephone exchange apparatus and the server apparatus by recovering the failure based on a detection result... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070071180 - Voice communication terminal, media server, and method for control of locking voice communication: A lock control technique suitable for voice communication terminals. A voice communication terminal includes an unattended state detecting unit which detects an unattended state of the terminal, when its user leaves the terminal, and a lock control unit. The lock control unit determines whether the unattended state detected by the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070071182 - Switch proxy for providing emergency stand-alone service in remote access systems: A switch proxy comprising a controller, a translations database and a switching fabric are connected to a trunk group between a remote terminal and its controlling local switching system. The switch proxy monitors control and alarm signals to and from the switching system on the trunk. In the event of... Agent: Dorr, Carson & Birney, P.C. One Cherry Center

20070071181 - System and method to provide local service for all emergency services numbers and to provide language assistance for calls to such numbers: A system and method to enable a local communications systems to respond appropriately to all extra-jurisdictional emergency dialing numbers by connecting the call to an interactive emergency language system. Additionally, and importantly, the system uses the dialed emergency services number as an initial indication that the caller may need a... Agent: Michele Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070071183 - Method and communication system for implementing calling tapping at flash: The invention discloses a method for implementing Calling Tapping at Flash, which includes the steps of: when there is a new voice message for a user, actively initiating an SIP message carrying the description information of the voice message by a Voice Mail Application Server; sending the SIP message to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20070071184 - Automated voice activated telephone reminder system: A method and system for automatically providing remote reminders via a telephone or similar device capable of delivering voice quality communication at a specified time and date. Reminders are scheduled by telephone or other voice interactive means whereby a requester calls a specific number and schedules a reminder message to... Agent: Jeffrey Clift

20070071185 - Exchange apparatus and method of selecting voice storing area: According to one embodiment, an exchange apparatus comprising a first storing unit which includes a plurality of voice storing areas, a read unit which reads, from the first storing unit, information indicating one of the voice storing areas corresponding to a request to record a message, upon receiving the request... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070071186 - System and method to facilitate voice message retrieval: Some embodiments provide transmission of a request to access a voice message mailbox to a voice mailbox provider, transmission of caller information to the voice mailbox provider, and reception of a voice message associated with the caller information from the voice mailbox provider. According to various embodiments, the caller information... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070071187 - Providing contextual information automatically: A facility is described for providing contextual information automatically. In various embodiments, the facility receives an indication to start a conversation, automatically determines an identification for an item indicated by the indication, encodes the identification in a message, and sends the message so that a recipient of the message can... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070071188 - Telephone usage control: A device and method for controlling the use of a communication device make a determination as to whether a communication may proceed. The determination may be based upon a time reference, such as a total amount of time that the communication may proceed or an interval of time when communication... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C. Attention Of Carl K. Turk, Esq.

20070071189 - Broadband communications: The present invention relates to a communications network, in particular to a communications network having a communications station such as a telephone exchange, and at least one interface, such as a cabinet. A plurality of optical carriers are provided between the exchange and a cabinet, thereby allowing modulation of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070071190 - Facsimile apparatus: A facsimile apparatus that includes: a main device; an additional device; an item setting part that sets items of operational condition of the main device recognizable through the additional device; an information generating part provided in the main device and generating information of the operational condition of the main device;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070071191 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs and the connection IDs contained in a call information event and state information representing a call connection state between the plurality of telephone terminals, when the call... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070071192 - System and method of event triggered voice call origination: A method is disclosed and includes presenting a list of items for sale. The method also includes receiving a user selection of an item from the list of items for sale and placing the selected item on an action list in response to a user action. Additionally, the method includes... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070071193 - Communication device and network communication system: There is provided a communication device which has a first communication system that communicates with an external telephone device and a second communication system that communicates with an external computer. The communication device comprises a call unit and a data acquisition unit. The call unit makes a call to a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070071194 - Communication system, communication terminal device, and program: A communication system comprises a plurality of communication terminal devices interconnected via a network. The communication system is configured such that information is sent and received between the plurality of communication terminal devices. The plurality of communication terminal devices comprise a first communication terminal device including a first storing system... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070071195 - Telephone exchange apparatus, telephone exchange system, and accounting method: If a call is originated from a DKT, a first node being a calling party prepares a call identifying information item using a call number and a Node ID, and transmits the information item to a second node being a called party. If the first node and the second node... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070071196 - Methods and systems for billing and routing local toll-free communications: A system routes local toll-free communications to a toll-free communications address via local switches and/or local network onto interconnecting local providers with local access settlement rates, thereby allowing a local rather than toll cost structure of the communication. When an originating communications address is identified as an LCA, intraLATA, or... Agent: Bambi Faivre Walters

20070071197 - System and method for managing prepaid card: A prepaid card management method and system which can comprehensively manage an issuance of personal identification numbers (PINs) of various affiliated prepaid card companies and even when each generation system of each PIN is different for each affiliated prepaid card company, can adaptably issue the PIN. A prepaid card management... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070071198 - Apparatus and a method for applications of caller line identification signals: Apparatus for providing caller identification between a private telephone network having extensions and a public telephone network. The private network and the public network are connected through a private branch exchange. The public telephone network carries caller identification signals according to a predetermined protocol. The apparatus comprises an adaptor being... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan

20070071199 - Communication device: A communication device includes a network control device connected to a Public Switched Telephone Network; an interface connected to an IP network; an operations control part configured to set an address corresponding to the Public Switched Telephone Network and another address corresponding to the IP network for an authorizing person... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071200 - Communication protection system: A voice call in a connectionless VoIP domain is received (2) by a protection system which resides between a CSCF system and an IP voicemail system. A filter checks (2) the originator address against personalized address white and black lists. If on the black list (3a) session set-up is terminated... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070071201 - Payphone control: Systems and methods are provided for controlling pay telephones. In one implementation a system is provided. The system includes a pay telephone coupled to a telephone server using a telephone line. The system also includes a local control unit located in proximity to the pay telephone and coupled between the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070071203 - Conference call participant management system and method: A participant may join a conference call whenever a person specific attribute is read by an interrogator and verified as being authorized to participate in the call. The interrogator may be integrated into a telephone and manually activated or periodically activated. The attribute is an RFID tag, bar code, fingerprint,... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070071202 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table indicating a correspondence relation between the terminal IDs contained in a call information event from the telephone exchange apparatus and status information indicating the call connected status of the telephone terminals, when the call connection... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070071204 - Voice call system and method of providing contents during a voice call: There is a need for providing a content to a user in process of a voice call without interrupting the conversation. A presence server is provided to manage positions, in a virtual space, of a user of each of voice telecommunication terminals and an advertisement sound source provided by an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070071205 - Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing musical compositions: Systems and methods for creating, modifying, interacting with and playing music are provided, particularly systems and methods employing a top-down process, where the user is provided with a musical composition that may be modified and interacted with and played and/or stored (for later play), and particularly in a form that... Agent: Alan R. Loudermilk

20070071206 - Multi-party conversation analyzer & logger: A multi-party conversation analyzer and logger uses a variety of techniques including spectrographic voice analysis, absolute loudness measurements, directional microphones, and telephonic directional separation to determine the number of parties who take part in a conversation, and segment the conversation by speaking party. In one aspect, the invention monitors telephone... Agent: Lee Weinstein

20070071207 - Facsimile apparatus and error call monitoring apparatus: There are described an facsimile apparatus and a monitor apparatus, which make it possible to prevent occurrence of an error call for an unintended receiver or destination and to provide information effective for investigating the cause of the error call. The facsimile apparatus includes: a telephone number input section which... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070071208 - System and a method for providing personalized electronic services and advertisements: A method and system are provided which allow a user to obtain electronic services and advertisements, including information and entertainment, all of which may be specific to the location or venue of a user. The system has a platform having an internet connection and a telephone connection and a user... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070071209 - Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users' presence and availability: The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate collaboration and communications between entities such as between automated applications, parties to a communication and/or combinations thereof. The systems and methods of the present invention include a service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive models that provide... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070071210 - Conference communication system and method with notification: A conference communication system including a conference server which provides a conference for a first and a second communication terminal, a notification device which generates a notification message according to a media data transmission control protocol which is used for signaling whether media data sent out by the first communication... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070071211 - Context-based event processing: According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method, in a telecommunication system, of processing a communication event associated with a subscriber of a communication network, the method comprising: obtaining context data relating to the subscriber, and in response to receiving the communication event, the telecommunications... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070071212 - Method to block switching to unsolicited phone calls: A method to control switching of telephone calls of at least one caller with at least one more callee using a filter is—regarding a filtering that is as efficient as possible with a minimum impact on the regular phone operation—designed in such a way that before switching the telephone call... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070071213 - Data message mirroring and redirection: Processing data messages is disclosed. A data message or a copy thereof is sent to a destination other than an intended recipient with which the data message is associated, for processing at said destination in accordance with a policy. The data message or a copy thereof is sent to said... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20070071214 - Method for detecting a cpe alert signal of a telecommunication system by utilizing an energy ratio: A method for detecting a CPE alert signal of a telecommunication system. The method includes: detecting a first signal energy at a first frequency; detecting a second signal energy at a second frequency; comparing a total received signal energy with a summation of at least the first signal energy and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070071215 - Internationally accessible communications: A communication system that is configured to communicate with more than one call manager systems, the communication system comprising a routing system configured to receive signaling for a call wherein the signaling indicates a called number including an international country code, and process the international country code to transfer a... Agent: Sprint

20070071217 - Method and system for accessing intelligent network and related devices: The present invention discloses a method and a system for accessing an intelligent network as well as related devices. According to the present invention, user input information is pre-stored in an audio frequency signal generating device and an audio frequency signal demodulation unit is pre-set in an SSP/AIP. The access... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070071216 - Method for establishing a session between a caller and a callee: The invention discloses a method for establishing a session between a caller and a callee, applying to a next generation network, after said callee picking up, which includes: restarting a session negotiation with said callee via a first application server corresponding to the callee, upon obtaining a session description protocol... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070071218 - Method for implementing a customized ring back tone service and system thereof: A method for implementing a customized ring back tone service includes: upon receiving a call initiated by a caller, an SSP triggers the call to an SCP, and the SCP requests the SSP to report a detected alerting event of a callee and continue with the call handling; the SSP... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070071219 - Method for improving control capability of service control point during a call: The present invention discloses a method for improving the control capability of the Service Control Point (SCP) during a call to resolve the problem in the prior art that the SCP can not gain control for calling. The method comprises the steps of configuring a virtual Detection Point (DP) event... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070071220 - Systems, methods and computer program products for designing, deploying and managing interactive voice response (ivr) systems: An IVR system may be designed by accepting designer inputs to generate, on a display screen, a flowchart of interconnected flowchart processing blocks and flowchart decision blocks that represent a process flow of processing steps and branches, respectively, in the IVR system. By allowing the designer to generate a flowchart... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070071221 - Network routing: At least one device receives a call request from a calling party to a called party. The device routes the call request to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core when a first condition is met and bypasses the IMS core when a second condition is met.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070071224 - Initial routing of internet-protocol network telephone calls: A computerized telephony call center for serving a customer base has a central switch connected to a plurality of telephones at operator workstations and adapted to route calls to individual ones of the telephones, and also connected to a public switched telephone network, and a first processor connected to the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070071222 - Method and apparatus for the automated delivery of notifications to contacts based on predicted work prioritization: (a) a work item queue 208, 250 comprising an intra-enterprise contact associated with at least first and second internal endpoints of an enterprise; and (b) a selector operable to select and assign a work item to an agent. In selecting the work item, the selector considers both a customer contact... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070071223 - Method and system for handling a queued automatic call distributor call: A method for handling a queued automatic call distributor call includes receiving a call from an endpoint of a caller over a first connection. The call comprises a request for service. The method includes connecting the call to an automatic call distributor through a second connection and determining that the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070071225 - Remote time based accountability system: The present invention is a method for operating a remote time based accountability system comprising the steps of receiving and storing information from a non-automated communication from a user, determining an emergency services contact telephone number based on receiving and storing information from the communication, generating a schedule based on... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd

20070071226 - Method for establishing a communication connection in a direct communication network: In order to establish a communication connection between two subscribers in a direct communication network, signaling information containing subscriber address information is exchanged between subscribers participating in the communication connection. The communication connection is directly established between the subscribers participating in the communication connection on the basis of the subscriber... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070071228 - Communications network system for implementing mixed services and method thereof: The present invention discloses a communications network system including more than one type of communications network and a centralized subscriber database connected with the more than one type of communications network. The centralized subscriber database is able to process calls accessed via a communications network based on the subscriber data... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070071227 - Method for establishing a direct coordination link between a first and second control centre for carrying out services: The method for establishing a coordination link (40) between a first and second control centre (10, 12) for carrying out services, including a stage in which one of the centres (10) transmits its address to the other centre (12) by inserting the address in a call control signal transmitted to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070071229 - Method and communication arrangement for the detection of at least one additional communication device which can be connected to at least one subscriber line: A method and a communication system for the detection of at least one other communication device which can be connected to at least one subscriber connection line is provided. The transmission function of the at least one subscriber connection line is monitored with respect to significant modifications in order to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070071230 - Distributed echo cancelling: A distributed echo cancelling architecture is provided where echo-cancelling functions are performed at locations remote from devices receiving signals with echoes. The echo cancelling functions use a reference signal, which has been corrupted with the echoes at the devices, for echo cancellation. As echo canceller resources are located at a... Agent: David B. Cochran Jones Day

20070071231 - Terminal block for readily connecting customers to any of a plurality of telecommunications service providers: An improved terminal block includes a first connection mechanism which, when not disabled, connects a customer to a first service provider, a second connection mechanism which, when not disabled, connects the customer to a second service provider, and a disabling mechanism for disabling either the first connection mechanism or the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070071232 - Apparatus and method of inputting a character: Provided is a method of inputting a character in a mobile terminal. According to the method, when a character button is pressed, a first character is displayed among characters printed on the pressed character button. After that, when a function button is pressed subsequently to pressing of the character button,... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070064879 - Splitter card with integral test access: A splitter card having integral test access devices. The splitter card allows test access to be readily provided at any location where splitter cards are typically mounted (e.g., a splitter chassis).... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070064880 - Method for configuring power loops between a central office and a service access interface: A system and method are disclosed for configuring power loops between a central office (CO) 106 and a service access interface (SAI) 110. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network management system (NMS) 100 having a memory 104, and a controller 102.... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070064881 - Prevention of an alarm activation and supporting methods and apparatus: A method and apparatus for preventing false alarm activation is provided. According to one embodiment of the invention, a determination (410) is made as to whether an instruction from a controller is a commanded reset, and control of a Subscriber Line Interface Circuit is taken (416) from a voice processor... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070064882 - Systems and methods for providing emergency contact services: An emergency contact platform provides emergency contact services where usual communications have been disrupted. The emergency contact platform may include a server to receive registration information including a phone number associated with a phone when communication using the phone is impracticable. The server may also be configured to receive an... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070064883 - Techniques for suspended delivery of messages: Methods and apparatus are described for creating, scheduling and delivering messages.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070064884 - Method and system for providing configurable application processing in support of dynamic human interaction flow: An approach provides machine and a human user interaction in support of dialog flows. A first state file is generated and specifies a plurality of states of a dialog with the human user. The first state file includes logic for transitioning among the states. A second state file is also... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070064885 - System for delivering video on hard medium along with one or more items or vouchers to remote address: A video is captured at a local geographic location and stored in a computer memory. A gift is selected and an address is specified for an intended recipient at the local geographic location. Video and order information for the gift is sent out onto a communications network for delivery to... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070064886 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically controlling a pstn network element from an ip network element using signaling: Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically controlling a PSTN network element from an IP network element using signaling are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method may include receiving a first SIP message from an IP application server. The first SIP message may identify a call event trigger... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070064887 - Wireless communication system for telephonic calls: Multi-tier system for digital radio communication. The multi-tier system has a first-tier base station with relatively long-range radio and has a second-tier base station with relatively short-range, low power and cheaper radios. The system can be more versatilely configured to meet demands of various applications. The application may include data... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070064888 - Method and system for call initiation in a video relay service: A method and system for call initiation and the establishment of a communication session in a video relay service are described. A called party number of a voice phone is entered into a video phone and a first segment of a communication session is established between the video phone and... Agent: Trask Britt

20070064889 - Method for tracking effectiveness of telephone response advertising: A method of advertising a product, comprising assigning a respective telephone number to a plurality of advertising media elements is disclosed. Telephone numbers are assigned and calls are forwarded to be answered by a sales person or persons. The assignment of the telephone numbers to the sales person or persons... Agent: Roger Pitt Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070064890 - Method and system for operator services automation using an operator services switch: A telecommunications system includes a front end automation system, an operator services switch, an automated operator, and an automation data server. The front end automation system interacts with a caller in order to recognize a request of the caller and determine a response to the request. The operator services switch,... Agent: Ross T. Robinson, Esq. Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070064891 - Point-of-sale electronic pin distribution system: A point-of-sale electronic distribution system for distributing an access code (e.g., a personal identification number (PIN)) is provided. The system allows retailers/distributors to purchase access codes for use with pre-paid products using conventional telephones and without requiring the use of a dedicated terminal or personal computer at the point-of-sale. A... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20070064892 - Image forming device, information processing method, information processing program, and recording medium: In an image forming device including a service provision program providing service for an application program, the service provision program is constituted by a plurality of modules that operate exclusively to each other and are connected together, and the image forming device comprises a change information recording unit on which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070064893 - System and method for determining characteristics for international calls: A system for providing termination information for an international telephone number includes a centralized database of terminating characteristics. The system may also include request processing logic that receives an international telephone number from a user. In response to receiving the telephone number, the request processing logic may automatically query the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070064894 - Method, system and device for relay call transfer service: A method, system and device for relay call transfer services in hearing-impaired communications is described. A voice phone number of a relay service is entered into a voice phone and a first segment of a communication session is established between a hearing-capable user on a voice phone and a relay... Agent: Trask Britt

20070064895 - System and method for telephone call information aliasing: A method of providing an aliased telephone number provided. A user may request an alternate telephone number to protect his privacy when making calls. When the user transmits a call, a service provider detects that the call should be linked with an aliased telephone number. The provider may then substitute... Agent: William F. Colvell

20070064896 - System and method for sharing sip sessions: This present invention provides a communication system, which comprises a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) call server and a virtual SIP user agent. SIP services are provided by said SIP call server for a plurality of internal SIP user agents. The virtual SIP user agent is connecting to said SIP call... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070064897 - Door intercom system: Disclosed is a door intercom system, which is installed on a door of a community for communicating with and identifying a visitor and opening/closing the door through a network by an inhabitant among a plurality of inhabitants of the community and capable of transferring data to a system provider through... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070064898 - Telephone conference system: A telephone conference system has a voice response board 6 for connecting a plurality of phone lines in a telephone conference, a voice synthesis board 8 for synthesizing voice signals for participants of a telephone conference in a designated one of a plurality of conference rooms, and a control section... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Godbey Griffiths Reiss & Chong

20070064899 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing privacy measures in instant messaging systems: The present invention provides privacy measures in instant messaging systems. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: setting a time-out value for a message; sending the message to a receiving user; and displaying the message to the receiving user only for a time period equal... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070064903 - Method and system for managing network resources: Method a system for managing network resources. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for managing resource in a wireless network. As an example, the wireless network includes an access network and a home network. The access network provides at least radio connectivity and the home network... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070064900 - Method for the establishment of a communication link: An architecture and a signaling process are created for transmitting call images from a first telecommunication device to a second telecommunication device to establish communication link from the first telecommunication device to the second telecommunication device is established via a telecommunication network. The inventive method is suitable particularly for establishing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070064901 - System and method for performing distributed multipoint video conferencing: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for performing video conferencing is provided that includes an I-frame injector element operable to intercept I-frame requests from one or more end points and to attempt to service the I-frame requests such that at least a portion of the requests... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070064902 - Wireless response system with feature module: A wireless response system includes a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link. The base unit sends polling commands to the response units over the wireless communication. The response units send the response data to the base unit... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070064904 - System and method for patron notification using the patron's wireless device: There is disclosed a system in which the patron's own telephone, or other wireless device, is used to inform the patron that a service for which the patron is waiting has become available. Once the patron's wireless device becomes registered with the service provider, informational messages of interest to that... Agent: Dallas Office Of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070064905 - Telephone apparatus, telephone system and facsimile apparatus: An IP telephone apparatus includes a recording unit, a timestamp token obtaining unit, an operation unit and a data accumulation unit. The recording unit generates recorded data by recording a voice. The timestamp token obtaining unit obtains a timestamp token including encrypted data of the recorded data or digest-data thereof... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070064906 - Telephone system that notifies caller of called party's state: A telephone system that has the ability to provide a caller with additional information (beyond a busy signal or a ring tone) concerning the called party when the called party's line is busy: The called party can control the amount and type of additional information provided to the calling party.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070064907 - On demand call re-termination: Disclosed are methods and systems for re-terminating telephone calls. A telephone call is established between a caller and a member of a subscriber. During the call, a sequence of key strokes is received from the member who uses customer premises equipment during the call. A subscriber list related to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070064908 - Method and apparatus for automatic advance calling to contacts: A telecommunications device includes a telephony controller; a contacts controller, said contacts controller configured to maintain a plurality of contact telephone numbers for individual contacts; and an automatic advance calling controller operably coupled to said contacts controller and said telephony controller, the automatic advance calling controller configured to cause the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064909 - System and method for resuming automatic advance calling to contacts: A telecommunications system includes a network; a telephony client operably coupled to the network and configured to maintain a list of contact telephone numbers; a telephony server operably coupled to the network and including an automatic advance sequence service including means for sequentially calling a contact on said list at... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070064910 - Method and apparatus for providing called party information to a coverage point during survivable processor operation: Called party information is provided during survivable processor mode operation of a branch included in a distributed private branch exchange communication system for support of features that require information identifying the called party. More particularly, a coverage path for use during survivable processor operation is enabled that establishes contact with... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070064911 - Method for using ain to deliver caller id to text/alpha-numeric pagers as well as other wireless devices, for calls delivered to landline networks: A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireline telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, and a monitoring module all in communication with each other. The remote call notification is transmitted to a remote communication device such as a PC,... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman PLLC

20070064913 - Method and system for transferring an automatic call distributor call: A method for transferring an automatic call distributor call includes receiving from a caller a call for distribution to one of a plurality of agents and distributing the call to a first agent of the plurality of agents for handling. The method includes receiving a transfer request to transfer the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070064914 - Method for notifying customers of an agent's progress in fulfilling work orders: A system and method are disclosed for notifying customers of an agent's progress in fulfilling work orders. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an account management system (AMS) (100) having a communications interface (110), a memory (104), and a controller (102). The controller... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070064912 - Call routing between shared service centers: A method and system to optimally route telephone calls between shared service centers is presented. Using a combination of service tiers, Agent Directory, Instant Messaging (IM), and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provides optimal routing of incoming calls for assistance. The method utilizes different protocols during normal operations, transitional operations,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070064915 - Language interpretation call transferring in a telecommunications network: A method and system of providing language interpretation for a merchant are disclosed. An incoming telephone call from a customer speaking a first language is received at a language interpretation service. The customer is greeted in the first language by an interpreter associated with a language interpretation provider. The interpreter... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070064916 - System and method for providing a language access line: A method and system of providing a language interpretation service is disclosed. A language access number, such as an 811 number, can be provided. The language access number can be used to place a telephone call to a language interpretation service for language assistance. A language access telephone call is... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070064917 - High-speed communications network tap with zero delay: A high-speed communications network tap includes a first terminal and a second terminal adapted to couple the tap in-line in the network and communicate data with network devices. A duplicator is coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal and configured to duplicate the data as a copy of... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070064918 - Communication system, call connection server, terminal apparatus and communication method: A communication system in accordance with the present invention is provided with a terminal device and a call connection server. The terminal device comprises a personal computer 70u in which software is installed for performing a call connection process, and a dedicated telephone terminal 60u which is connected to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070064919 - Communication method for placing phone calls by using a fixed dial plan: A communication method dials phone calls by using fixed numbers and includes the following steps. A phone number is receives. A first processing step is performed to transform the phone number into a first dialing number. A correct PSTN gateway is selected according to the first dialing number. A first... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070064920 - Systems, methods and computer program products for aggregating contact information: A service provider for a communications system may detect new contact information for a contact in the contact database of a first one of the subscribers. The service provider obtains a confirmation of the new contact information by a party other than the first subscriber to confirm accuracy of the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070064921 - Caller-generated ring tones: A called device plays a ring tone provided by a calling device to signal an incoming call from the calling device. A ring tone recorder may provide the caller generated ring tone from the calling device to the called device. The ring tone recorder records a ring tone for the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070064922 - Techniques for measuring network resistive loss within a power-sourcing apparatus: Improved techniques involve provisioning power for a remote device through a data communications cable. Such techniques involve providing a first electrical stimulus (e.g., a first voltage, V1) to the data communications cable and the remote device, and sensing a first electrical response (e.g., a first current, I1) to the first... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070064923 - Method and system for signal emulation: A circuit can process a sample of a signal to emulate, simulate, or model an effect on the signal. Thus, an emulation circuit can produce a representation of a real-world signal transformation by processing the signal according to one or more signal processing parameters that are characteristic of the real-world... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070064924 - Method of configuring interface device and protection device in digital communication system, and the resultant system: A method for configuring an interface device and a protection device in a digital communication system. The interface device has a first port for communicating with other devices, the first port being in a high-impedance state when the interface device fails. The protection device has a second port for replacing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070064925 - Integral microphone and speaker configuration type two-way communication apparatus: A two-way communication apparatus used for two-way speech and improved from the viewpoint of the performance, the viewpoint of the price, the viewpoint of the dimensions, and the viewpoints of suitability with the usage environment, user-friendliness, etc. is provided. In the two-way communication apparatus, a plurality of microphones (MC1 to... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070064926 - Ringing phone line selector/voip switch: A phone line selector module used in telecommunications related equipment for automatically sensing and switching back and forth between first and second input ports. The selector module includes a two-piece inter-fitting housing which receives a miniature printed circuit board therein. The miniature printed circuit board is used to mount phone... Agent: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20070064927 - Input device: There is disclosed an input device which prevent an operator's unintended operation without degrading operability, even when a plurality of operation input means is arranged close to each other so as to respond to various operations. When an input managing unit 25 receives an operation signal of a second input... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070064928 - Safety cap phone: Safety Cap Phone with Antibacterial, and Essence. A cap that assembles to the speaker and the auricular of any phone and helps prevent the spread of disease and infections and also helps to avoid foul odors.... Agent: Javier H. Mariscal

20070058787 - Centralized feature platform in a packetized network: A packetized telecommunication network directs a call that is received at a gateway of the network to connect to a feature platform via the network, which performs a service related to the call, such as an authentication service. After the service is performed, the call is redirected to another location... Agent: H. Dale Langley, Jr. The Law Firm Of H. Dale Langley, Jr. PC

20070058789 - Method and apparatus for interworking voice and multimedia services between csi terminal and ims terminal: A method and apparatus is provided for communication between a first terminal capable of using both a Circuit Switched (CS) call and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) session, and a second terminal capable of using the IMS session, in a communication system supporting a Combined CS call and IMS... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070058792 - Method and system for booting, provisioning and activating hardware and software clients: Automated booting of a client for a subscriber is provided for clients that are for use in interactive user sessions that involve multimedia. A subscribe message is sent from the client to a proxy server. The proxy server authenticates the subscribe message, and sends the subscribe message to the configuration... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070058791 - Method for handoff from packet switching domain to circuit switching domain and equipment thereof: The present invention discloses a method for handoff from a PS domain to a CS domain, including: the MS obtaining a handoff number and initiating a CS domain session request by taking the handoff number as a called number; a network side associating the CS domain session request to an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070058788 - Multimedia subsystem service control for circuit-switched subsystem calls: The present invention allows calls that are controlled by a multimedia subsystem (MS) to employ bearer paths that are supported in whole or in part by a circuit-switched subsystem (CS). As such, calls controlled by the MS can have a portion of the bearer path provided through the CS when... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070058790 - Network telephone system and methods therefor: One embodiment of the present invention includes a telephony interface, a network interface and a local area network (LAN). The telephony interface provides connectivity between one or more netphones and an external telephone network such as a PSTN telephone system. The network interface provides connectivity between one or more computers... Agent: Kang Lim

20070058793 - Call center system and method for obtaining interface invoke information: The present invention discloses a call center system and a method for obtaining interface invoke information to realize automatic analysis of the user behaviors. The method includes steps of sending a connection establishment request message to a user interface server by a call center client after a service is activated;... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070058796 - Computer-aided processing of a voting message and determination of a voting result: A voting message which includes a voting question is coded in accordance with a transport-protocol control protocol, for example in accordance with the real-time transport control protocol, and is sent in the course of a conference, in order to initiate a voting.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070058794 - Method and apparatus for performing call setup for a video call in 3g-324m: For quick call setup, terminal A sends to terminal B stuffing sequences for the highest H.223 multiplexer level supported by terminal A and at least one proprietary sequence. The proprietary sequence indicates support for quick call setup and contains video and audio codecs supported by terminal A. Terminal A monitors... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070058795 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a personal conference to privately establish and control media connections with a telephony device: Methods, systems, and computer program products for using a personal conference to privately establish and control media connections with a telephony device are disclosed. According to one method, a media connection is established between a first user and a personal conference instance. The first user is connected to the personal... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070058797 - Information processing apparatus and telephone exchange apparatus: According to one embodiment, a telephone exchange apparatus includes a recorder which records processing record information in relation to a processing history of the communication information on a first recording medium, a connector which connects a second recording medium differing from the first recording medium, a detector which detects the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070058799 - Communication apparatus capable of echo cancellation: A communication apparatus capable of echo cancellation is provided. The apparatus is configured to be provided with an input signal receiving interference. The input signal has a frequency range. The interference includes an echo component and a noise component. The apparatus has a first interference eliminator configured to reduce an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070058798 - Echo canceller: There is provided an echo canceller which can appropriately cancel an echo even when a low-frequency component is included in the signal to be passed. The echo canceller includes an echo replica forming means for forming an echo replica signal from a far-end input signal by using an adaptive filter... Agent: Venable LLP

20070053504 - Connection device, electronic apparatus with the same, and folding portable terminal device: The connecting device includes; first and third connecting members 31 and 33 which have flexibility and foldably connect an upper housing portion 1 and a lower housing portion 2 with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween; and a second connecting member 32 which has enough restoring force and rigidity to restore... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070053505 - Combined sidetone and hybrid balance: A combined sidetone and hybrid balance apparatus and method of operating same are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may provide both a hybrid balance mode of operation and a sidetone generation mode of operation within a single integrated circuit device. The functionality provided by an embodiment of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070047692 - Emergency alert for voice over internet protocol (voip): A voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) positioning center (VPC) is implemented in configuration with support from a text-to-voice module, emergency routing database, and VoIP switching points (VSPs) to allow a public safety access point (PSAP) or other emergency center to effectively communicate the nature of an emergency alert notification and... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070047695 - Method and system for automated and selective determination of call completion services: A method and system for providing a call completion service for a call between a caller and a destination over a network. Outgoing and Incoming call profiles, identifying enabled call completion services, are associated with callers and destinations, and are retrieved from a database based on the particular caller and... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070047694 - Method, system and apparatus for communicating data associated with a user of a voice communication device: According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for communicating data associated with a user of a voice device is disclosed. A server receives a first identifier associated with a first device, the first device comprising one of the voice device and the data device. The server determines a... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070047693 - Method, system and apparatus for controlling a voice recorder: According to an embodiment on the present invention, a method for controlling a voice recorder is disclosed. The voice recorder is for recording a voice session between an origination device and a destination device. The method can be conveniently executed at a computing apparatus coupled to the origination device and... Agent: Fetherstonhaugh - Smart & Biggar

20070047696 - System for secret conversation and record: A system for secret conversation and record of the present invention comprises a call-sending apparatus which has a function of sending and receiving calls; a call-receiving apparatus which has a function of sending and receiving calls and communicating with the call-sending apparatus; a record apparatus which can be outside connected... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20070047697 - Conversation-based user interface: A conversation-based user interface (UI) is described. The presenting of the UI includes receiving communications from numerous people. The communications include media that is electronic. A conversation list is generated that includes conversation information of each of the communications. The conversation information includes information of a sender and the media... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070047698 - Systems and methods for providing call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units: Systems and methods provide a call monitoring service for multiple telecommunications units. When an incoming communication directed to a subscriber's simultaneous ring number is received, outgoing communications are placed to each of the telecommunications units associated with the subscriber's simultaneous ring number. A determination is made as to whether the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070047699 - Separation of session and session control: The present invention allows a media terminal to initiate or receive a first communication session, and a control terminal to control the first communication session. The media and control terminals are generally proximate to or otherwise associated with each other. The control terminal may provide additional services associated with the... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070047700 - Managing held telephone calls from a remote telecommunications terminal: A telecommunications terminal is disclosed that is capable of displaying information about calls that are on hold or queued for delivery at a data-processing system, wherein the calls are to be delivered the terminal itself. The terminal displays characteristics of each call, such as: (i) the caller's name, (ii) the... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070047701 - Internet alerts: The present invention relates to a method for providing a non-email based precision web alert for a website or web-based application. The method involves the publisher registering at least one alert at an alert server and then presenting the alert on the related website or web-based application for selection by... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070047702 - Message distribution system: The invention is a message distribution system that can deliver a single message to a large number of people with a single act using a group of computer servers. The preferred embodiment requires the user to establish an account using a website and enter a contact list. The contact list... Agent: Nathaniel Gordon-clark

20070047703 - System and method for electronic prepaid account replenishment: A method for crediting a customer account maintained by a vendor of services in response to payment received from a customer is disclosed herein. The method includes issuing, to the customer, a membership account number associated with at least the customer account. A membership account number and a payment corresponding... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070047704 - Systems and methods for providing a telecommunications extension service for multiple telecommunications units: A system and method provide a telecommunications extension service for a subscriber. The system allows a subscriber to identify one or more telecommunications units to serve as extensions of one of the subscriber's telecommunications units when a call is directed to the subscriber's telecommunications unit. A list of numbers associated... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070047705 - Method and computer program product for classification and linking data records, and a classification system: This publication discloses a method for classifying and selecting records. This publication also discloses a classification and selection system according to the invention and a computer program product for classifying and selecting records. In the method according to the invention, a classification structure corresponding to a read field is selected... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070047706 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing call routing services: Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing call routing services are provided. The method includes prompting a caller to select from options provided via a call routing service plan. The options are provided for enabling the caller to review existing call routing account information and modifying existing call routing account... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070047707 - Ip-enhanced cellular services: A federation of multinational PSTN, IP and cellular service providers coordinate their accounting by: populating a subscriber database of subscribers to one number services, a service providers database and a payments clearing database having amounts owed across the service providers based on the individual service provider's portion of pre-agreed payments... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070047709 - Method and apparatus for selection of special-purpose gateways: A method and apparatus route telecommunication calls in a communication system based on media type by detecting a requirement for a special media type for a telecommunication call; and selecting a subset of a plurality of gateways wherein only the subset of gateways is capable of providing communication for the... Agent: John C. Moran, Attorney, P.C.

20070047708 - Voice call reply using voice recognition and text to speech: A voice reply system (200) suitable for handling an incoming call. The voice reply system can include a reply handler (220) that, responsive to receiving the first spoken utterance from a user (250) speaking into a headset (110), audibly provides to the user a caller identifier sound token correlating to... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070047710 - Exempting certain incoming callers from screening by a privacy system: A privacy system determines in connection with a call from a particular calling party whether a name identification thereof is available, and if so allows the call to be put through to the called party with the name identification. The called party thus can review the name identification of the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070047711 - Personalized on-hold music: The present invention provides a method for providing personalized on-hold music to a user. When a user is placed on hold, a determination is made as to whether the user subscribes to a personalized music on-hold service. If the user subscribes to the personalized music on-hold service, personalized on-hold music... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070047712 - Scalable, distributed architecture for fully connected network intercom system: An intercom system is provided having a plurality of intercom stations coupled to a digital network, each station transmitting intercom data onto a channel of the network. Each station receives intercom data from each other station and selects channels to be amplified and output to a speaker. Each station may... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Cirrus Logic

20070047713 - System and method for modifying package service subscriptions online: A disclosed method allows service subscribers to modify service subscriptions online. Operations within the method may include receiving an order for a service package from a subscriber, wherein the service package includes multiple features. In response to the order, the features in the service package may automatically be cross referenced... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070047714 - Profile management system including user interface for accessing and maintaining profile data of user subscribed telephony services: Subscriber profile data associated with a communications service subscribed to by a subscriber is managed by a profile management system. The subscriber profile data is stored on a communications network which executes the communications service in accordance with the subscriber profile data. A subscriber request to view the subscriber profile... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070047715 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically establishing a conference call having a plurality of different subscriber participation classes: Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically establishing a conference call having a plurality of different subscriber participation classes includes maintaining at least one per conference call subscriber participation class list. The per conference call subscriber participation class list indicates contact information for a plurality of different subscribers and... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070047716 - Call transfer service using service control point and service node: A service node is used in the implementation of a call-transfer service in which a service call is transferred to a second agent from a first agent. A code receiver receives from a service control point, via a data link, at least one subscriber-defined call-transfer feature code that can be... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070047717 - Telephone record search system: A universal database of telephone numbers of the Public Switched Telephone Network operating under the North American Numbering Plan is created and updated regularly to reflect the most current name and telephone information for telephone subscribers. The database is updated by a system that accesses telephone company subscriber databases through... Agent: Peter J. Thoma

20070047718 - System and method to access content from a speech-enabled automated system: A method of accessing content at a speech-enabled automated system is disclosed and comprises receiving a verbal input at an interactive voice response system. The interactive voice response system can include one or more table-driven state tables, in which action-objects are embedded. Further, the method can include retrieving content from... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070047719 - Voice application network platform: A distributed voice applications system includes a voice applications rendering agent and at least one voice applications agent that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice applications rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070047720 - System and method of managing incoming telephone calls at a call center: A method of managing incoming calls is disclosed and includes receiving a telephone call. Further, the method includes offering a caller a bypass option to bypass an automated help application and placing the telephone call in a queue for a next available customer service agent. The method can also include... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070047721 - Enclosure for broadband service delivery system: An enclosure used with a system for delivering broadband service, including standard telephone service and telephone/DSL service, to a subscriber. The system includes a pair gain system, a cross-connect system, and a service distribution system. The enclosure is a retro-fit enclosure that incorporates the service distribution system into an existing... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070047722 - Telephone keypad with dot expression capability: A telephone keypad that enabling dial an alphabetic telephone number that has ‘.com’ therein is provided. The keypad has a key button having a numeric, for example “5”, at the center and “J”,“K”, “L”and “.” symbols surrounding the numeric “5”. The numeric can be any of one from 2, 3,... Agent: Eugene Oak

20070047723 - Personal ring tone message indicator: A system and method of message indicating that enable the sender of a message to chose the ringing tone of the receiver's cellular telephone upon arrival of the sender's message. The sender has the ability to either choose or create the ringing tone to be played on the receiver's cellular... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047724 - Voice call system adapted to support computer terminal: The present invention is intended to attenuate a ringer tone signal, during a state in which a call is in progress, below the ringer tone signal level that occurs during a state in which no call is in progress, when a PC terminal is utilized as a telephone. A voice... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070047727 - Multimedia caller ring distribution system and method: A system is provided to manage distribution of ring back multimedia content. The system includes a data store component to store the multimedia content and to associate the multimedia content with a called system. The system includes a distribution component operable when a caller system calls the called system to... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070047728 - Multimedia caller ring information service: A system and method for providing ring back content is provided. In some embodiments, the ring back content is multimedia, audio and video, content and may be advertisements. The method includes calling a subscriber, and receiving content as ring back when calling the subscriber.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070047726 - System and method for providing contextual information to a called party: A telephone system includes a first endpoint device operable to populate a subject field with a message entered by a caller, and to send a call to a called party with the message being attached thereto. A second endpoint device is operable to retrieve the message when the call is... Agent: Burgess & Bereznak LLP

20070047725 - Taylor made mobile answering service: This present invention relates to having a person makes a call you will hear a song or a movie clip or other audio, but instead of hearing the person's regular voicemail; you will hear whomever's song is playing or who is saying the clip, voice on the voicemail with his... Agent: Taylor Carthern

20070047729 - Subscriber line interface circuit (slic) including a transient output current limit circuit and related method: A subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) for a subscriber loop includes a pair of output amplifiers for connection to the subscriber loop and a transient output current limit circuit. The transient output current limit circuit may have at least one programmable output current limit and limit respective output currents from... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070047730 - Systems and methods for integrating analog voice service and derived pots voice service in a digital subscriber line environment: Systems and methods for integrating analog voice service and derived POTS voice service in a DSL environment are provided. One embodiment is a system comprising: a first communication path for carrying plain old telephone service (POTS) voice signals between a telephone-type device and a subscriber line of a telephone network;... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070047731 - Clipping detector for echo cancellation: An adaptive filter in an echo canceling circuit includes a clipping detector that affects the coefficients of the adaptive filter when clipping is detected. Clipping is defined as at least two successive maxima or minima in a predetermined period. The coefficients are either locked or the echo estimate is reduced... Agent: Paul F. Wille

20070047732 - System for broadband service delivery: A system for delivering broadband service, including standard telephone service and telephone/DSL service, to a subscriber. The system includes a pair gain system and a service distribution system. In some embodiments, the service distribution system is located such that the standard telephone service and telephone/DSL service are routed from the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070047733 - System and method for premises end crosstalk compensation: A crosstalk compensator provides for the compensation of mismatches in mutual coupling capacitances between adjacent parallel wire pairs. The aforementioned mismatch in mutual coupling capacitance may arise in a customer premises wiring system which may consist of at least the drop cable, cable run and/or receiver cable (from the service... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070047734 - Inmate telephone absent an inmate-accessible hook switch button: An inmate telephone for use by inmates of a prison or a mental institution is disclosed and does not include an inmate-accessible hook switch. Inmates are issued inmate devices for inmate identification purposes and for inmate telephone use. The inmate telephone can include a device reader and when an inmate... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP