Telephonic communications inventions 07/07

20070172034 - Method of providing a ring-back tone service in a mobile communication system: There is provided a method of providing a ring-back tone service in a mobile communication system by extending such service to a calling party even when only the calling party has subscribed to the service. The conventional ring-back tone service, however, can be provided only when the called party has... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070172035 - Method and system for requesting help: A method (and system) of requesting help includes connecting a user to a help request generator, accessing, by the help request generator, a database including a list of helpers, selecting at least one helper from the list of helpers, and transmitting a help request from the help request generator to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070172036 - Method and system for routing calls based on a language preference: Systems and methods for processing a call are disclosed. Generally a stored indication of a user's language preference is accessed in response to receipt of a call initiated by the user. The call is then routed to a location based on the stored indication of the user's language preference.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070172037 - Telecommunication services reporting system: A system and method for processing a plurality of call detail records (CDRs) each indicative of a call transaction on a telecommunications network. The method includes receiving the plurality of CDRs at a first controller, wherein each of the CDRs include a data structure including a plurality of fields each... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070172038 - Communication system and method: Embodiments relate to a communication system comprising a call handler arranged to process channel signalling received from a communication network; a workload controller comprising means to determine the workload of at least one processing resource of the communication system; wherein the call handler comprises means to block establishment of at... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070172039 - System and method for facilitaing communication betweeen two parties: In accordance with a first aspect of the invention there is a system (10) for facilitating communications between two parties comprising a first party (12) having positive credit with a communication facilitator (16) and a second party (14) having insufficient credit with the communications facilitator (16) to initiate or continue... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070172040 - Configurable charging system for a telecommunications service provider: A system extension for a billing system adapted to generate customer bills associated with the delivery of telecommunications products and services, wherein the billing system includes software instructions adapted to be executed on a computer server platform, a database for storing product configuration data for a plurality of product offerings... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070172042 - Call urgency screening: In some embodiments, a call urgency screening system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a data storage device comprising, (i) a call urgency screening program that allows a recipient to choose whether to accept a call from a caller or offer to the caller other alternate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070172041 - Digital rights management engine systems and methods: Systems and methods are described for performing digital rights management. In one embodiment, a digital rights management engine is provided that evaluates license associated with protected content to determine if a requested access or other use of the content is authorized. In some embodiments, the licenses contain control programs that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070172047 - Display hierarchy of participants during phone call: The present invention is directed toward methods and systems for providing advanced features to a telecommunication device. The systems and methods determine a hierarchical relationship of participants of a conference call and when one participant is communicating with another participant, the parties are made aware of their hierarchical relationship relative... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20070172045 - Instant conference method and apparatus: A system for establishing a conference call is provided. The system includes a handset operable to send a message containing a list of prospective participants for the conference call. The system also includes an application server operable to receive the message and invite at least some of the prospective participants.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070172044 - System and method for adding conference participants: A system for adding a participant to an ongoing conference call is provided. The system includes a handset operable to send a message containing a prospective participant to be added to the conference call. The system also includes an application server operable to receive the message and invite the prospective... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070172043 - Ultimedia conference system: A method for managing remote conferences including: receiving, via a device for managing conferences, data from a telephone conference bridge concerning the presence of participants in a conference, and determining the apparatuses of users to be included in a conference, by audio presence data and stored data identifying a user... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070172046 - User information management system for controlling conference bridge connections: An apparatus and method is provided for managing and controlling connections to conference bridges for proposed conference call participants to access a scheduled conference call. A first call is made to a conference bridge. Next, an attempt is made to contact the proposed conference call participant for the conference call... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070172048 - Telecommunication control system: In order to provide a telecommunication control system for determining the most appropriate connection configuration according to a connection configuration requested by a caller terminal and a receiver terminal, the telecommunication control system comprises a caller priority call category judgment unit for generating a first priority call category identifier by... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070172049 - Voice authentication device, voice authentication system, and voice authentication method: A voice authentication apparatus capable of reliably performing personal identification based on a communicating party's voice of an incoming call between communication terminal apparatus and preventing communication with ill-intentioned people. In this apparatus, when the communicating party is specified through key operation of user specification input section 201, a user... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070172050 - Method and system for managing interactive communications campaigns: A web-based hosted solution through which business entities create and manage communications campaigns, such as interactive campaigns that afford target recipients an opportunity to be connected to a third party call center. A web interface is provided to enable a business entity customer to create a set of one or... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070172051 - Setting up a packet-oriented multimedia connection using an interactive voice response system: In one aspect, a communication set up between subscribers by means if an interactive voice response system is provided. The generation of a recall of the subscriber is controlled by signalling messages serving to warn the subscriber of a call. A direct link TDM, RTP/RTCP<SB>A/B</SB> in the multimedia network is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070172052 - Internet telephony call box device implemented with a single slic module: An Internet telephony call box device implemented with a single SLIC module, which includes a first line connector, a second line connector, a switch module, a SLIC module and an LI module. A control module controls the switch module to switch a connection of the first line connector, the second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070165787 - Apparatus and method for controlling home network devices: An apparatus and method for controlling home network devices is provided. The apparatus includes a display unit that displays a list of items corresponding to a plurality controlled devices arranged in a predetermined space, a receiving unit that receives a first image containing the controlled devices, the list, and information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165789 - Dynamic family disaster plan: A database and communications server allow for composure of a family disaster plan that is tailored to the demographic and geographic information provided by a subscriber to the disclosed system. In the event of an emergency, relevant portions of a family disaster plan are communicated to a subscriber and the... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20070165795 - System and method for providing user-requested information: A system and method for providing information to a mobile unit user in response to requests made by the user. An exemplary system may allow a cellular phone user to retrieve text and/or image files, for example, by accessing an interactive voice response (IVR) system, which generates and sends SMS,... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20070165798 - Mobile communication terminal and communication control program: A cellular phone 100 registers incoming call histories in which other party telephone numbers are correlated to own telephone numbers which received a call in an incoming call history accommodation section 14b. It is judged whether or not the other party telephone number to which a call is made is... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070165788 - Wired transmission line testing method: The present invention relates to a wired transmission line testing method for determining at least one physical characteristic of a wired transmission line where the wired transmission line is coupled between a first line transceiver device and a second transceiver device. The wired transmission line testing method first comprises the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165790 - a system and method for controlling and accessing multimedia messages: A system and method is described for storing, controlling and accessing multimedia messages, like voice mail, email, video mail and short messages in a communications network, including the Internet or Intranet (202) and any other data or telephony network (206, 207). The communications network (202, 206, 207) comprises one or... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070165791 - Remote call monitoring: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring calls routed to a telephone network voice mail system from a variety of remote telephone locations. When a subscriber receives a telephone call, a determination is made as to whether the subscriber's line is busy or whether the call goes unanswered. If remote... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070165793 - Interactive response system for giving a user access to information: Interactive response systems (1) of call centers for giving users access to information comprise means (11, 31) for receiving activation signals via audio or video or audio/video calls from the users and means (12, 32) for transmitting menu signals to the users and means (13, 21, 33) for receiving selection... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165792 - Method, system and device for automatic recognition of limited speech: This invention relates to a method of automatic recognition for limited speech and its correlative system and device. The main technical content is: Establish the relationship between the voice file and the identification information for a limited range of speech, and then insert the identification information into the voice file,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070165794 - Methods and apparatus for enforcing caller listening behavior on interactive voice response applications: An interactive voice response (IVR) system which allows a caller to barge-in on all prompts, yet still allows the caller to receive important information contained in the prompts. When a caller barges-in on a prompt that contains important information, the IVR system interrupts the prompt to play a short announcement... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070165796 - System for accessing data via voice: A system for providing access to data via a voice interface. In one embodiment, the system includes a voice recognition unit and a speech processing server that work together to enable users to interact with the system using voice commands guided by navigation context sensitive voice prompts, and provide user-requested... Agent: Samuel G. Campbell, Iii Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP

20070165797 - System and method for reconciling billing mismatch: A system and method for reconciling the differences in pricing breakout definitions between telecommunication carriers so that rates and codes can be communicated between carriers in a format that is compatible with the systems of the respective carriers.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070165799 - Ivr authentication and intention verification system: A system for providing interactive voice response (IVR) service includes an intelligent IVR system and a database having a plurality of datasets for use in automatically authenticating a user and automatically determining the user's intention. Some embodiments of the intelligent IVR system use GPS data to automatically determine the user's... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070165800 - Connection control apparatus, method, and program: A connection control server provided on a network is operable to control a connection state of telephone terminals connected to each other via the network. The connection control server has a command notification reception processing unit for receiving a switching request of a session established between telephone terminals from a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070165802 - Location resolution using call detail records: A method of tracking personnel includes receiving incoming communications from the personnel via a telephone network from various locations and matching records of the incoming communications with phone company data generated after calls are completed for billing purposes so as to verify a location from which each incoming communication originated.... Agent: Steven L. Nichols Rader, Fishman & Graver PLLC

20070165803 - Method for processing the re-authorisation based on the charging of the packet data flow: The present invention discloses a method for handling re-authorization in packet data flow based charging. The method includes: TPF monitoring re-authorization triggers; and requesting re-authorization of the credit in OCS when a re-authorization trigger is detected. In accordance with the method provided by the present invention, TPF pre-configuring re-authorization triggers,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070165801 - System and method for intelligent data extraction for telecommunications invoices: A system, method and computer program product for extracting information from a telecommunications invoice is provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method may include: receiving a telecommunications invoice data stream in a first data format; analyzing the telecommunications invoice data stream to determine the first... Agent: Venable LLP

20070165804 - Systems and methods to convert a free call to a fee-based call: A method and system for converting a free call to a fee-based call are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the invention, an automated system establishes a connection between a first entity and a second entity. After the connection has been established, the system monitors the connection to determine if... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070165805 - Methods and apparatuses for pay for lead advertisements: Methods and apparatuses for advertising where the performance is determined via tracking the communication leads generated from the advertisements. One embodiment includes: providing an advertisement on behalf of a specific party; and charging an advertisement fee responsive to a customer making a request for an in person communication with the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070165806 - Handheld electronic device having improved phone call log, and associated method: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide an improved call log that presents information relating to logged phone calls in a collapsed manner, meaning that for each phone number having a call stored in the memory of the device, only the most recent in time call is... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070165807 - Caller number notification: A caller number notification synchronized with an incoming signal is disclosed. An analog circuit interface section outputs incoming call signal presence information that shows whether to receive the incoming call signal that has the information indicated at a predetermined position on a highway and outputs the received caller ID to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165808 - Methods and apparatus for call back disposition and re-evaluation in interactive voice response based customer care: An interactive voice response (IVR) system which assists in identifying repeat callers, understanding whether they are calling for the same reason as one of their previous calls, and properly disposing of the call. If the repeat caller is calling for the same reason, information from the previous call (or the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070165809 - Receiving device, method for incoming call notification, and program: An incoming call notification is performed based on a caller number extracted from a call-in signal and a user status stored in a user status storage unit, and thereby, the incoming call is notified adequately in accordance with the user status and a caller. For example, the contents of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070165810 - Invite conference-unaware participant with active dialog to an ad-hoc conference at the application server: A system and method for initiating a conference call is provided. The method consists of a first participant initiating a first telephony session with a second participant. The first participant then places the second participant on hold, initiates a second telephony session with a third participant, and initiates the conference... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070165814 - Method and a system for providing ringback information: An information providing system includes a terminal on the side of a call originator, a terminal on the side of a call terminator, a content server, and an IP network. When the originator makes a call meant for the terminator, the one user terminal on side of the terminator transmits... Agent: Venable LLP

20070165812 - Method of providing multimedia and information services taking into account user context information and the service providing apparatus thereof: A method of providing multimedia and information services taking into account user context information, and an apparatus providing these multimedia and information services are provided. The method involves calculating the direction wherein the user is facing using the user context information; comparing the direction wherein the user is determined to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165813 - Systems and methods for providing sender-based routing: A system and method for providing sender-based routing is provided. The method comprises assigning a unique identifier to a first user. A single communication address is associated with the first user and a second user. A communication from the first user is routed to the second user based on the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070165816 - Automated electronic telecommunications order translation and processing: Systems and method for processing orders for telecommunications services are disclosed. Generally a telecommunications transaction set of an electronic data interchange standard is received, the telecommunications transaction set corresponding to a telecommunications product or service for a customer. An order for the telecommunications product or service is then generated based... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070165815 - Automatic routing and information system for telephonic services: A system and method for automatically and seamlessly routing telephone calls across a telephone network. The system includes a telephone network interface box having a computer, a master file and client file stored in the computer. The master file is dynamically linked to the client file at routing time to... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070165811 - System and method for spam detection: A caller verification system and method include generating a challenge to be sent to a caller which requires a response from the caller prior to accepting a call. A response or lack thereof is determined from the caller, and the response is analyzed relative to an acceptable response to determine... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070165817 - Method and system for implementation of terminal configuration data protection: The present invention relates to a method and a system for implementing protection of terminal configuration data. The core of the present invention is to protect user terminals based on running data safely and correctly. The details include: first, categorize the terminal data into categories; then, decide a specific condition... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070165819 - Controlling publication of presence information: A user interface is configured to identify and display each of the one or more service providers servicing the user's computing system. The interface also identifies the presence information that is being supplied to the service providers by the user's computing system for publication. The presence information that is provided... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070165818 - Network event driven customer care system and methods: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for informing customers and taking other corrective actions upon the occurrence of a network event that may affect the provision of a network service, such as Internet Service, VOIP, VOD, IPTV etc. The system includes a processor and computer programs that contain instruction... Agent: Mike Rose

20070165820 - Sorting speakers in a network-enabled conference: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) are described that sort speakers in a network-enabled conference. In some cases, this sorted list of speakers indicates which speaker is dominant. With this sorted list, a participant's communication device may provide context about the speakers. In some cases a participant's communication device has a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070165821 - Systems and methods to block communication calls: Methods and apparatuses to block calls from reaching destinations. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a call for a connection to an entity via a reference; based on the reference used for the call, determining a reference of the entity; determining whether the call is to be blocked; and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070165823 - Call-based advertising: After receiving a directory assistance request from a caller, an attempt is made to determine the identity of the caller. If the caller's identity cannot be determined, a sponsor advertisement is played prior to providing the directory assistance service to the caller. If the caller's identity is determined, multiple advertisements... Agent: Innovation Strategies, Inc.

20070165824 - Electronic call assistants with shared database: A telephone exchange (1) arranged to communicate with communication units (2, 3, 4, 5, 7) and to provide a plurality of electronic call assistants to the communication units, a first electronic call assistant (12) being provided to a first communication unit (2) and a second electronic call assistant (14) to... Agent: Bradley J. Hulbert Mbhb LLP

20070165822 - Enhanced directory assistance system: An enhanced directory assistance system includes a telephone switch for receiving calls from at least one caller desiring to receive directions. A direction module is configured to receive a desired destination information provided by the caller and the location of the caller. The direction module is further configured to provide... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070165825 - Call processing system and method based on dual mode terminal: A call processing system and method are based on a dual mode terminal. The call processing system comprises: a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) which, when a call is incoming to an extension through a first network, checks registration information based on a link test message transmitted periodically from a destination... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070165826 - Telecommunication network comprising a plurality of stacked private networks, private automatic branch exchange for implementing said network, and emergency call center: This telecommunication network includes a plurality of private networks (PN11, PN21) which are stacked on at least two levels (L1, L2), each private network (PN11) comprising at least one private automatic branch exchange (PBX11a, PBX11b, PBX11c). At a first level (L1), at least one private network (P11) has at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165827 - Automatically sequentially ringing alternative telephone numbers: A Service Control Point (SCP) has a call list associated with the main telephone number of a called party. When a calling party attempts to contact the called party by calling the main number, but cannot reach the main number, a Service Switching Point (SSP) fires a trigger. One trigger... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070165828 - Method for a calling party to reinitiate a call in card number service: The present invention relates to communication techniques, and discloses a method for the calling party to reinitiate a call in card number service, so that the calling party in card number service can conveniently release his current call and reinitiate a new call. In the present invention, the call controller... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070165830 - Dynamic load balancing between multiple locations with different telephony system: A system and method for dynamic load balancing between telephony systems are provided. The system includes an input to receive a call from a primary interactive voice response (IVR) system. The system also includes an IVR unit responsive to the call to receive input from a caller. The system also... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070165829 - 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... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070165832 - Methods and systems for high speed broadband digital link: Provided herein are methods and systems for a digital subscriber line protocol that does not require amplitude modulation, as well as methods and systems for such a protocol that can be used in combination with amplitude-modulation techniques to provide superior broadband DSL capabilities.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070165831 - System and method for universal adaptation of a pstn modem: A modem adapter is provided to adapt a modem to operate with a telephone system. The modem adapter includes a conductor detector, a voltage generator, and a dial-tone generator. The conductor detector is configured to detect live conductors on a telephone jack. The voltage generator is configured to generate an... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070165833 - Apparatus and method for finding a called party over a telecommunication network: The present disclosure provides a system and method for establishing telephone communication between a calling party and called party wherein the calling party may store a plurality of numbers or identifiers of a called party and initiating a number or identifier of the called party enables the system and method... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070165834 - System and method for adjusting hands-free phone: A communications device having a user configurable speakerphone feature is provided. A user may be provided with a plurality of selectable settings for configuring the operation of a microphone or the processing of speech. For example, a user may select settings to filter ambient noise for a cleaner sound or... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070165835 - Automated utility data services system and method: An automated utility data service system for communicating over a telecommunication medium that also communicates user data is provided. One embodiment includes a first transceiver coupled to a telecommunication medium and configured to receive user data in a customer premises via the telecommunication medium, and a modem communicatively coupled to... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20070165836 - Method, device, terminal and system for processing data flow: A method for processing a data flow, including: transmitting a coding and decoding algorithm plug selected by a calling party or a called party to the pear party, the coding and decoding algorithm plug containing a coding and decoding algorithm, during a call between the calling party and the called... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070165838 - Selective glitch detection, clock drift compensation, and anti-clipping in audio echo cancellation: The quality and robustness of audio echo cancellation is enhanced by selectively applying glitch recovery processes based on a quality measurement of the relative offset between capture and render audio streams. For example, large and small glitch detection is enabled for low relative offset variance; large glitch detection is enabled... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070165837 - Synchronizing input streams for acoustic echo cancellation: Input streams for acoustic echo cancellation are associated with timestamps using reference times from a common clock. A render delay occurs between when an inbound signal is written to a buffer and when it is retrieved for rendering. A capture delay occurs between when a capture signal is written to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070165839 - Bipolar pulse generators with voltage multiplication: A bipolar pulse generator includes two, two-conductor transmission lines coupled together with a load positioned between the two transmission lines. Each conductor of a transmission line we define as a segment. Two segments of one transmission line are charged and switchably coupled to two segments of the other transmission line... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070165840 - Fastening mechanism for communication device: A fastening mechanism formed on a rear of a box-shaped communication device includes upper and lower openings, and upper and lower latches each extended from an edge of the opening and substantially covered the opening, the latch having a hole therethrough. Inserting either bar projected from a member into the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20070165841 - Systems and methods to provide guidance during a process to establish a communication connection: Methods and apparatuses to provide services to people who wish to make connections for real time communication, such as live telephone conversation, chat, video conferencing, etc. In one embodiment, a method includes: presenting a graphic to guide a communicator through a connection process to establish a media connection between the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070160181 - Method and system for simulating communications networks, object and computer program product therefor: A method for simulating a telecommunications network through objects that model a respective set of network modules or devices provides for the insertion, for every module or device of the set, of at least one respective interfacing object with the other modules of the set. The above interfacing object has... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070160182 - Telecommunications system indicator and protector: The present invention provides a telecommunications system indicator and protector (10) for indicating the working status of a telecommunications line (16) and of equipment (12, 14) which can be connected to the telecommunications line. The telecommunications system indicator includes connecting means whereby the telecommunications system indicator can be connected to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070160183 - Charging control system for group communication sessions: The invention relates to a system for controlling communication between user terminals using a telecommunications network. One embodiment includes an interface between a real-time charging control system for controlling usage of network resources during such usage and a group communications control node which is capable of controlling group communications sessions.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070160185 - Method and system for connecting a subscriber to an advertiser prior to call completion: A method and system are provided for connecting a subscriber to an advertiser prior to call completion in an intelligent telecommunications network. A subscriber telephone line is provisioned to receive advertisements which are stored in an originating switch in the telecommunications network. Once the subscriber dials a telephone number to... Agent: Attention Of Devon K. Grant, Esq Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070160184 - Systems and methods to connect people in a marketplace environment: Systems and methods to provide telephonic connections. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing a listing on a marketplace, the listing including an assigned reference to be used to initiate a real time communication connection; and billing for a real time communication lead generated from presenting the listing in response... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070160186 - Method for processing an incoming call: A method for processing an incoming call, includes: an accessing call mark being preset in a called terminal; the called terminal, on receiving a call initiated by a calling party, determining whether the call contains the accessing call mark of the called terminal; if the call contains the accessing call... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070160188 - Home agent access in call routing management based on caller language: Call center management with at home agent access based on caller language is provided herein. Calls from customers of a client are received at an interactive voice recognition (IVR) system, which determines a language of the caller by detecting the language or language selection by keypad entry. The IVR system... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070160187 - System and method for redirecting a telecommunicating party to an information source over a computer network: A system and method for providing an access code to an interested party who is engaging in communications with a call center agent over a communications line and directing the interested party to at least one source of information provided over a computer network. The interested party may make an... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070160189 - System and method for analysing communication streams: Communications systems are provided, a representative one of which incorporates: a recorder operative to record information associated with a communication; and a first computer application operative to provide a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface being configured such that, responsive to a user input designating a portion of the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070160190 - System and method for analysing communications streams: Methods are provided, a representative one of which involves: recording information associated with a communication; providing a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface being configured such that, responsive to a user input designating a portion of the communication, information recorded and corresponding to that portion of the communication is... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070160191 - System and method for analysing communications streams: Systems and methods for analyzing communications of a contact center are provided. A representative system incorporates a graphical user interface operative to display information corresponding to a communication of the contact center, the graphical user interface being configured to display the information such that different portions of the communication are... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070160192 - Communication method, communication system, and connection apparatus: A connection apparatus is employed which is connected to a repeating apparatus for providing the PoC for first communication apparatuses having a PoC function. Call connection is established between the connection apparatus and second communication apparatus not having the PoC function. In the connection apparatus, recorded is apparatus information for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070160193 - Network interface device, apparatus, and methods: A low cost universal network interface device capable of accommodating various terminating devices. The network interface device generally including a base defining an interior cavity, and being further defined by a provider portion and a subscriber portion. The network interface device further including a protective outer cover having an integrated... Agent: Corning Cable Systems LLC

20070160194 - Network interface device, apparatus, and methods: A Network Interface Device (NID) component includes a base configured to receive, in a cavity, both a subscriber wire contact and a provider wire contact. The component also includes a cover in movable attachment to the base, the cover including a bridge contact, wherein the bridge contact makes electrical connection... Agent: Corning Cable Systems LLC

20070160195 - Network interface device, apparatus, and methods: A line module includes a plurality of pivoting insulation displacement connector holders, an insulation displacement connector (IDC) positionable in at least one holder when the holder is in a connected position, and a gel-less jack in electrical communication with at least one IDC.... Agent: Corning Cable Systems LLC

20070153982 - Method and apparatus for routing emergency calls in a voip system: Methods and apparatuses for routing emergency calls originated from mobile wireless devices in a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) system are described herein. In one or more embodiments, emergency calls are routed in a VoIP system by receiving incoming emergency calls originated from dual-mode mobile devices connected to the VoIP system through wireless... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070153983 - Method and apparatus for routing emergency calls in a voip system: Methods and apparatuses for routing emergency calls originated from mobile wireless devices in a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) system are described herein. In one or more embodiments, emergency calls are routed in a VoIP system by receiving incoming emergency calls originated from dual-mode mobile devices connected to the VoIP system through wireless... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070153984 - Method and apparatus for routing emergency calls in a voip system: Methods and apparatuses for routing emergency calls originated from mobile wireless devices in a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) system are described herein. In one or more embodiments, emergency calls are routed in a VoIP system by receiving incoming emergency calls originated from dual-mode mobile devices connected to the VoIP system through wireless... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070153986 - Method and apparatus for routing emergency calls in a voip system: Methods and apparatuses for routing emergency calls originated from mobile wireless devices in a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) system are described herein. In one or more embodiments, emergency calls are routed in a VoIP system by receiving incoming emergency calls originated from dual-mode mobile devices connected to the VoIP system through wireless... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20070153987 - Systems and methods for audibly indicating incoming telephone calls: A landline-telephone personalization system includes a call indicator device, a computer, and a remote server system. The call indicator device is configured to download audio files from the remote server system and to play one or more of the files to indicate incoming PSTN calls over the landline-telephone connection. The... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070153991 - User selected caller id override: Universal caller identification services are provided to enable a subscriber to maintain his or her identity by communicating an outgoing communication from any one of a plurality of different communications and communicating a communications signal to a called party communications address with a Universal CallerID to always identify the calling... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070153981 - Automatic provisioning of a telephone line test system: A telephone line test system that may be used to compute line length of subscriber lines connected to a central office or other distribution point. When initially installed, the test system may automatically compute CO limits. The CO limits are computed from single-ended measurements on subscriber lines and represent electrical... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070153985 - Intellectual alarming system with automatic call for help: An alarming system detects a harmful gas, an over temperature, a fire smoke, etc. and alarms a user. If the user does not respond to the alarm within a period of time, the system automatically dials a list of telephone numbers to notify receivers of the telephone numbers about the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070153988 - Voice mail apparatus and control method thereof: According to one embodiment, a voice mail apparatus is connectable to a telephone exchange, records a voice message sent from a caller telephone terminal in a mail box corresponding to each telephone terminals, and reproduces the voice message in response to a reproduction instruction. The voice mail apparatus stores in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070153989 - Personalized user specific grammars: Improved systems and methods are provided for transcribing audio files of voice mails sent over a unified messaging system. Customized grammars specific to a voice mail recipient are created and utilized to transcribe a received voice mail by comparing the audio file to commonly utilized words, names, acronyms, and phrases... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070153990 - User selected caller id override: Universal caller identification services are provided to enable a subscriber to maintain his or her identity by communicating an outgoing communication from any one of a plurality of different communications and communicating a communications signal to a called party communications address with a Universal CallerID to always identify the calling... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070153992 - Method to provide an operator selection service as well as a communications network and a call server therefore: The invention relates to a method to provide an operator selection service for subscribers of a communications network (CN′), wherein the subscribers terminals (T1, T2, . . . , Tn) are connected to one local exchange (ILEX) of a first operator, wherein said local exchange (ILEX) detects, whether call handling... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153993 - Monitoring method and system: A system and method for monitoring a monitored subject is disclosed. In a broad aspect, the method comprises activating a monitoring service to send notification messages to the monitored subject, sending at least one notification message to a monitored subject in accordance with a first notification schedule, determining if a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070153994 - Method and system for integrating an electronic player and a telephone: The present invention is to provide a method and a system for integrating an electronic player and a telephone, which installs a first recording software and a first memory in the telephone and a second recording software and a second memory in the electronic player connected with the telephone through... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070153995 - Method of converting between radius message and diameter messages: In one embodiment of a method of translating a RADIUS message to a Diameter message, an access request message in RADIUS is translated to a credit control request message in Diameter. In one embodiment of a method of translating a Diameter message to a RADIUS message, a credit control answer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153996 - Distributing transactions among transaction processing systems: A method and system to distribute transactions among a plurality of transaction processing systems is described herein. The method includes automatically receiving data from a first transaction processing system; identifying scheduled handling resources for each of the transaction processing systems for a first time interval based on the data from... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070153997 - Method and apparatus for implementing intelligent call service: A method for implementing Intelligent Call Service, includes: allocating a unique number to a user, storing the unique number and a plurality of terminal numbers bound with the unique number, the user's Presence status and the routing order corresponding to the user's presence status; when the system receives a call... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070153998 - Integrated telephone call and context notification mechanism: A mechanism for placing a telephone call while at the same time communicating context (e.g., subject, importance and/or nature) of the telephone call. The caller uses a mechanism on a user interface to instruct a caller computing system to place a telephone call to a callee computing system. Using the... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070153999 - Caller identification of recipient that answered a simultaneous or routed communication: Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification services identify an actual communications address (or other called party identifier) of an answering communications device in a simultaneous ring service. In some of the exemplary embodiments, a calling party uses a communications device that includes a computer program product—a Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification... Agent: Walters & Zimmerman, PLLC

20070154000 - Method and apparatus for forwarding incoming telecommunication calls according to receiver position: A method and a corresponding apparatus for forwarding incoming calls according to the current position of the intended receiver. The position is detected by means of RFID tag and corresponding detectors. A plurality of telephone receivers are distributed within the offices of one or more sites of an entity (e.g.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070154001 - High quality audio conferencing with adaptive beamforming: Systems and methods that enable high quality audio teleconferencing are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a signal processor receives signals from a spatially dispersed set of directional microphones, processing the microphone signals and the far-end received audio into a signal for transmission to a far-end party. The... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070154002 - Method and system for generating a call processing record: Systems and methods for creating a call processing control record are disclosed. Generally, a call processing control record generator compares electronic schedule data with stored data to determine whether the electronic schedule data different from the stored data. In response to determining the electronic schedule data differs from the stored... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070154003 - Subscriber line common mode slew rate control: A subscriber line interface circuit apparatus includes indicating circuitry indicating a change between a first state and a second state of subscriber equipment coupled to a subscriber line. Common mode control circuitry transitions a common mode variable of the subscriber line from a first value to a distinct second value,... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070154005 - Celler identification of recipient that answered a simultaneous or routed communication: Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification services identify an actual communications address (or other called party identifier) of an answering communications device in a simultaneous ring service. In some of the exemplary embodiments, a calling party uses a communications device that includes a computer program product—a Simultaneous Ring Called Party Identification... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070154004 - Sender disablement of simultaneous rings and routed rings: Simultaneous ring control services provide control features for a calling party or a called party to override a simultaneous ring service to multiple associated communications addresses. According to some exemplary embodiments, the calling party can control routing of his/her outgoing communication signal to a selected communications address(es) associated with the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070154006 - Apparatus and method for determining part of elicitation from spoken dialogue data: This apparatus calculates, from the spoken dialogue data between a customer and an operator, the speech length of each speech. Then, it estimates the structure of the spoken dialogue data based on the speech length and specifies a speech-length-characteristic change time point (time) when the speaker who makes longer speeches... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070154007 - Method and device for agent-optimized operation of a call center: Offers for the purchase of goods and for the conclusion of contracts are made in call centers to a plurality of customers. Aside from the goods, a successful business transaction depends on whether or not the customer is comfortable with the salesperson in question. The most ideal assignment of a... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070154008 - Phone batch calling task management system: A system and method for postponing and managing outgoing calling tasks for on or off-site retrieval are presented. More precisely a system and method are presented to compile a list of pending calling tasks, transfer a task to a calling device and prompt a user to make a call. Optionally... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070154009 - Systems and methods for audibly indicating incoming telephone calls: A landline-telephone personalization system includes a call indicator device, a computer, and a remote server system. The call indicator device is configured to download audio files over a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and a landline-telephone connection to the PSTN and to play one or more audio files to indicate... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070154010 - Direct access arrangement device: A direct access arrangement (DAA) device is provided that is configured to interface a security alarm modem with a phone network. The DAA device comprises a receive optical isolator (OI) module having a receive input side and a receive output side. The receive input side includes a receive input line... Agent: Dean D. Small The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070154011 - Power line communication-enabled home terminal, method for automatically setting the same, and program and recording medium for the same: The present invention provides an automatic setting system which can automatically or semi-automatically set a network ID into power line modems by remote operations. The present invention includes a step (S1) of detecting a request of setting a network ID into power line modems, a step (S4) of transmitting a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070154012 - System and method for connecting a port connector to an interface circuit: The invention provides a system and method for configuring a connection for a port in an electronic device. The system comprises: an interface circuit to process signals for the connection for the port; an interface circuit connection bus connecting to the interface circuit; a port connection bus connecting to the... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP