Telephonic communications inventions 08/07

20070201623 - Automatic location identification (ali) emergency services pseudo key (espk): ESQK and/or ESRK (ESxK) number pool exhaustion and reuse errors are eliminated by replacing the ESxK identifier with an emergency services pseudo key (ESPK) identifier. A positioning center (MPC/VPC) replaces an ESxK received with a query with a ESPK in a return message. The ESPK is either a unique 10-digit... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070201629 - Message server and method for notification of a user about the delivery of an electronic message: In one aspect, a message server for processing outgoing and incoming electronic messages is provided. The server includes a receiving facility, a transmission facility, an instruction, a checking facility, and a notification facility. The receiving facility receives the electronic messages, including a first electronic message and a second electronic message.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070201634 - Method of providing an automatic reply message: The present invention concerns a method of providing an automatic reply message and a system (7) for executing said method. A calling party (2 to 5) tries to get in connection with a called party (1) by using a communication media. A raw data message is created from data provided... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201618 - Apparatus and method for calculating fault coverage, and fault detection method: A fault coverage calculating apparatus includes: an extraction module configured to extract information on a pair of wiring lines including a length of the pair adjacent within a predetermined distance range and a distance between the pair and bridge fault information corresponding to the pair from layout information of a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070201619 - Method and system for call proceeding in an intelligent network system: Embodiments of the invention disclose a method for call proceeding in an intelligent network system, which includes the following steps: receiving a service request from an exchange device; instructing the exchange device to proceed calling when a malfunction occurs at an intelligent network device. The invention also discloses an intelligent... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070201620 - System and method for end-to-end communications tracing: A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method further includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201621 - System and method for end-to-end communications tracing: A method for tracing communications includes receiving trace criteria from a first remote element and determining whether a call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method includes attaching a trace tag to the call signaling message, if the call signaling message matches the trace criteria. The method further includes... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201622 - Method and apparatus for providing e911 services for nomadic users: A method and apparatus for providing E911 services for nomadic users by utilizing web based updates on packet networks, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method enables a VoIP or SoIP service provider to detect a... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070201625 - Central monitoring station with method to process call based on call source identification information: A system and a method for processing an incoming telephone call to an alarm system central monitoring station using call source identification data such as caller ID. The alarm system central monitoring station can use the caller ID information transmitted by the telephone company to make decisions as to how... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070201624 - Protection phone: This invention will contain new computer technology to keep the line of communication open to 911 centers by a locked speaker system with locked location system in the event of emergencies. Final disconnection of phones and cell phones can only be done by the 911 centers allowing them to better... Agent: Elizabeth Testino

20070201628 - Distributed control of power in multipoint-to-point orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication: A bidirectional communication system is provided. The system includes a first remote unit for communicating with a host unit using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, the host unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of remote units in a multipoint-to-point, multiple access configuration. The first remote unit is configured to transmit up... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201626 - Non-linear voicemail: The present invention relates to a telecommunication system and methods for accessing and using a voicemail system from a mobile terminal, via a visual or voice interface. The present invention enables the user to access a message directly, in a non-linear way, without needing to go through all previous messages... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070201627 - Sending urgent messages to multiple recipients via a single call: A first call is received at a reserved address and is forwarded based on the reserved address. A second call is placed to a designated address, and a message is played to the designated address.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070201630 - Variable data voice survey and recipient voice message capture system: Personalized voice survey delivery systems and methods in which a computer identifies a person to be surveyed, including his or her phone number or Internet login to a specific website, or email address, together with specific identifiers for the person, such as the person's name. The person's phone number is... Agent: Perry Hoffman & Associates P.C.

20070201632 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing a mimo receiver: Disclosed is a method, computer program product and an apparatus providing a novel multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) receiver. The method includes receiving a plurality of signals through a plurality of antennas, the plurality of signals being modulated with a space-time lattice code; removing an effect of a channel matrix from... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070201631 - System and method for defining, synthesizing and retrieving variable field utterances from a file server: There is disclosed a system and method for addressing an audio file server to play pre-recorded audio files, including variable audio files, using a query URL containing the required file's attributes, without requiring a fully-resolved file address. The HTTP URL protocol is used by adding attributes, such as the language,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070201635 - System and method for implementing multimedia calling line identification presentation service: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for implementing a CLIP service, which includes: a resource storage entity used for storing multimedia resources subscribed by a calling terminal; a resource playing entity used for downloading the multimedia resources from the resource storage entity and playing the multimedia resources; a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070201633 - Three dimensional communication means: The present invention is related to the information flow control systems for different applications, such as advertising, education, entertainment or transmission of general information for communication purposes, among others. More specifically, it relates to the systems that allow the information flow control and their support systems to project three-dimensional images,... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070201636 - System, method and computer program product for extracting user profiles and habits based on speech recognition and calling history for telephone system advertising: A system, method and computer program product for providing targeted messages to a person using telephony services by generating user profile information from telephony data and using the user profile information to retrieve targeted messages.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070201637 - Notifying users when messaging sessions are recorded: A method, system and program for notifying users when messaging sessions are recorded are provided. In response to receiving a request to record a messaging session, a requested selection of multiple message entries associated with the messaging session are recorded. Then, multiple users participating in the messaging session are notified... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070201638 - Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification: Systems and methods for providing enhanced caller identification screening using audible caller name announcement are disclosed. Generally, a request for audible caller identification associated with a calling communication station is transmitted to the calling communication station based on an analysis of a query comprising data indicating whether presentation of standard... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070201639 - System and method for controlling voice detection of network terminal: Provided is a system and method for controlling voice detection of a network terminal. The system includes the network terminal for, if detection of a voice signal is requested, detecting voice by receiving and setting a voice detection setting value corresponding to a predetermined service and generating a trigger signal... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070201640 - System, device and method for operation and maintenance of network devices: A system for operation and maintenance of network devices, including a device layer including at least one network device and a pre-processing layer including pre-processing device(s); the network device obtains a CDR of a call and transmits the CDR to the pre-processing device; the pre-processing device filters the CDR and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070201642 - Configurable rating system for a telecommunications service provider: A configurable rating system provides the flexibility to define rating tariffs based on any number of input parameters, such as a service identifier, origin number, destination number, event type, or other parameter. At the same time, the configurable rating system simplifies the definition, debugging, and assignment of rating parameters which... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070201641 - Information verification in a telecommunications network: A method and apparatus for bill verification in a communication and computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a user device (12, 14, 16) and a bill verification device (26). The user device independently generates user data records (36) that describe usage units of a service and transmits (42) the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070201643 - Cost-free calling system and method: A telephone service that is completely free to the cell phone user provides a billing arrangement between a called party and a cellular service provider in which the called party agrees to assume all costs for calls to the called party by any cellular caller who is a customer of... Agent: David A. Greenlee

20070201644 - Telephone feature sales tool: A customer who uses one or more telephone services and in the process of using one of these services, receives a recorded announcement that a new service is available. The customer may accept or decline the new service. If the customer accepts, the new service is automatically configured and the... Agent: David L. Thomson

20070201649 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an image data receiving unit, an extracting unit and a first display control unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain a caller identification information through a caller identification via a communication line when an incoming call is received from a caller. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070201646 - Callback service: A caller calls a callback system. If the caller is not a subscriber, the caller is offered a subscription, and if the caller provides proper billing information, the caller becomes a subscriber. When a subscriber calls a callback system, the system identifies the subscriber's ANI and calls the subscriber back.... Agent: David L. Thomson

20070201648 - Caller identification billing: A method for attributing costs for a telephone call in an SS7 network. Information associated with the telephone call is captured and retained when the telephone call is provided to a call recipient by a second carrier that is a UNE-P lessee of a first carrier. The captured information is... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070201647 - Method and apparatus for providing ringback in a telecommunications network: A method of providing ringback in a telecommunications network (100) includes: receiving a call at a service switching point (114) for a called party (112) served by the service switching point (114), the call being from a calling party (122); encountering a trigger detection point (116) while engaging in a... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070201650 - System and method for providing an anti-marketing feature in a network: A system and method for minimizing unsolicited marketing communications to subscribers in a subscription base obtains a contacting party identification for incoming communications to a selected contact point before communications are allowed to pass through to selected contact points. Next, contacting party identification is compared with a marketing database to... Agent: Roy L. Anderson, Esq. Wagner, Anderson & Bright, LLP

20070201651 - Selective caller identification blocking: A system and method for allowing a first party with Caller ID Block to selective pass its Caller ID data to desired known second parties without undue burden is disclosed. The present invention provides for a “white list”, where the “white list” includes a list of known second parties, e.g.,... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070201652 - Method and telecommunications system for providing authorisation to a user during a telephone connection: The invention relates generally to a method for providing an authorisation to a user during a telephone connection being established between a first user (A) and a second user (B) in a telecommunications system (10) comprising one or more inter-connected telecommunications networks (12-15), said method comprising the step of: i)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070201653 - Communication device and method for controlling: A communication device comprises a first memory which stores telephone books, each including identification information and a name of a communication party, a second memory which stores communication histories, each including a communication time and identification information and a name of a communication party, a changing device which changes a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070201645 - Method for sending calling communication terminal location data to a call center: This method is used to send data representative of the location of communication terminals (T) to a call center (ECC) without using information processing means in the terminals and to send via heterogeneous communication networks (RP, RPT). This method consists, in the event of requesting the setting up of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070201662 - Method for placing call in voice call continuity and terminal and server thereof: A method, server and terminal for providing a Voice Call Continuity (VCC) service, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a storage unit to store operator policy information and user preference information, the user preference information including domain selection information specifying a user-preferred domain to be used when... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070201661 - Class-based call request routing: Communication systems and methods are described that include class-based call request routing. Components of the communication systems are configured to receive information of a class at a calling device. In response to the class information, a call request is automatically generated and addressed to resources of a class group. The... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070201660 - Method and apparatus for blocking voice call spam: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining voice call spam, a method and service server for blocking voice call spam, a voice communication system that has applied the service server and a switch that is used in the voice communication system. The apparatus for determining voice call... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070201658 - Method and system for implementing service triggered by off-hook: A method for implementing a service triggered by off-hook includes: sending information of a service triggered by off-hook which is subscribed by a user to a service implementing server; carrying out an operation of the service triggered by off-hook according to the information of the service triggered by off-hook when... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070201657 - Method and system for providing a camp-on service for a network service: A method for providing a camp-on service for a network service includes detecting a request from a user for access to a network service and detecting that the network service is unavailable. The method includes subscribing the user to a camp-on service for the network service. The method includes detecting... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201663 - Method for listening to signal tone from a called party by a calling party during network interworking: A method for listening to signal tone from a called party by a calling party during network interworking. When the media gateway control unit receives an Address Complete message or Call Progress message from the circuit domain network, the media gateway control unit instructs a media gateway to open a... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070201664 - Protocol builder for a call handling system: Systems and methods are presented for handling calls. In one embodiment of the invention, a call handling system is configured for handling a variety of emergency and/or non emergency related calls. The call handling system may enable recognition of and response to received call information. The call handling system comprises... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070201654 - System and method for extending a component-based application platform with custom services: A system and method for dynamically associating an application with an extension service to generate an extended, dynamically linked version of the application. The application is configurable for deployment on an electronic device and for subsequent interaction with the extension service during execution through communication messages defined in a structured... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070201655 - System and method for installing custom services on a component-based application platform: A system and method for dynamically linking an extension service with an application, such that the application is configurable for deployment on a device and for interaction with the extension service during execution on a runtime environment of the device. The system and method comprise an input module for receiving... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Suite 1600

20070201659 - Systems and methods to manage privilege to speak: Methods and apparatuses to prioritize requests for speaking privilege in a communication session. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving from an audience one or more bids for privilege to speak in a communication session; selecting one or more speakers from the audience based at least in part on the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070201656 - Time-scaling an audio signal: For time-scaling an audio signal, which is distributed to a sequence of frames, one scaling period is removed from the audio signal within a current frame, in case the audio signal is to be shortened in the time-scaling. Moreover, a segment of the audio signal following upon the removed scaling... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070201665 - Enhanced system for controlling service interaction and for providing blending of services: A service broker system is presented for mediating events or messages to be sent to or received from a plurality of applications to control service interaction and to provide service blending in a communications system. The service broker system includes steplet functional components that determine a desired mediation for feature... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070201666 - Method and system for visually rearranging telephone call trees: A method, system and computer instructions for users to visually rearrange telephone call trees are disclosed. A caller can connect to an automated telephone answering service, and download the service's call tree. The caller can view a display with the call tree, and modify or rearrange the order in which... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070201667 - Method for ensuring vlan integrity for voice over internet protocol telephones: A system and method for implementing telephony devices in a distributed network environment is disclosed. The present invention provides for checking data packets to ensure that non-voice data packets are properly tagged to be transmitted on a native virtual local area network (“VLAN”). Voice data packets transmitted on a separate... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070201668 - Appointment methods and apparatuses: Methods and systems for scheduling a call between parties are disclosed. A system enables a first party to schedule a call with a second party at a scheduled time period. The system includes a database having stored therein an availability of at least one first party for calls for a... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070201669 - Method and system for call control: A method and system for call control, a Business Operation Supporting System (BOSS) and a Service Control Point (SCP) are disclosed. The method includes: upon receiving a call from a switch system, an SCP sends an authentication request with a subscriber identifier of the call to a BOSS; the SCP... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070201670 - Telephone system: A telephone system comprising a first phone terminal belonging to private communication network, a second phone terminal belonging to public communication network, a transit device connects the private communication network to the public communication network, and a call control device controls a call between the first phone terminal and the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070201671 - User configurable conducted emissions filter: A conducted emissions filter is disclosed. The filter includes a main supply port adapted to provide a power signal to a power supply port, along with a common mode choke coupled between the main supply port and the power supply port with at least one adjustable level of inductance for... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070201672 - Selective telephony functions: Communication devices, such a telephones, are connected to one another so that they are reachable by at least a first identity. Each communication device is programmable to let through only identities that are stored. For example, this could mean that only one of many devices permits the identity to go... Agent: Fasth Law Offices (rolf Fasth)

20070201675 - Complex recording trigger: Complex recording triggers are provided. As an example of a system and method, the volume of call records can be reduced by complex recording triggers, thereby reducing the storage space allocated for call records.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070201677 - Enhanced directory assistance system with enhanced peripheral call queuing and handling: A directory assistance system includes a plurality of call centers, each configured to handle a directory assistance request from a caller. An ICM/IVR edge queuing module has a first IVR module and second ICM module and is coupled to each of the call centers. The ICM/IVR edge queuing module receives... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20070201676 - Supervising monitoring of agents: A system, method, and device for monitoring communications or agents in a contact center are disclosed. The exemplary system may have a monitoring station for transmitting a request to monitor an agent. A server of the exemplary system may have a servlet container and filter portion for receiving and routing... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070201674 - System and method for maintaining real-time agent information for multi-channel communication queuing: An apparatus and method for maintaining data for multi-channel communication queuing associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A list of agent data includes information related to types of communication media an agent can access. The data can further include information related to an agent's skills,... Agent: Csa LLP

20070201673 - System and method for multi-channel communication queuing: An apparatus and method for coordinating communication between one or more agents and a plurality of communication channels associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A first request in a first media format can be received via a first communication channel and a second request in... Agent: Csa LLP

20070201678 - Systems and methods to redirect audio between callers and voice applications: A call center environment is provided that allows a customer service representative to populate a workstation display screen with data using either keystrokes or voice input. The voice input is provided to the workstation using a voice overlay and voice platform to convert audio into data usable by the workstation... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20070201679 - Method and system for assessing and deploying personnel for roles in a contact center: Improving the deployment of human resources in a work environment and particularly in a contact center environment. Agents working in a contact center are given different assignments based on their skills and proficiencies. Conventional contact centers typically use a static skills resume to evaluate their agents for particular roles. The... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070201680 - Mobile communication terminal and processing program thereof: A cellular phone 100 performs an own number extracting process via Step SA3, when a call origination operation is performed. In the own number extracting process, when an own number corresponding with an other-party number of the call recipient is registered in an address book storing section 14a, the corresponding... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070201681 - Mobile communication device and method for displaying call history thereof: A mobile communication device (10) for processing calls of different types includes a call management module (30), a phone book module (40), a call history module (20), and a display module (50). The call management module processes the calls of different types, and generates call histories. Each of the call... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070201682 - Mobile terminal, operation control program, and data access control program: In a cellular phone, when a coming-to-the-office signal is detected by a non-contact IC section, a CPU selects an official mode as a telephone number mode. Meanwhile, when a leaving-the-office signal is detected by the non-contact IC section, the CPU selects a private mode as a telephone number mode. In... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070201684 - Call center routing system and method: The present invention generally provides a call center system which matches a user to an agent based on, for example, skills, performance ratings, availability and/or other factors. The agent of the call center system may provide a wide variety of information to the user such as, for example, restaurant reviews,... Agent: Lampel & Associates, P.C.

20070201683 - Telephone apparatus: It is a problem of the invention to provide a telephone device in which only a terminal possessed by a user who wishes to identify a call partner is provided with a function of identifying the call partner, whereby the call partner can be always identified without troubling the call... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070201685 - Methods and systems for ringtone definition sharing: A system comprises a ringtone originator, a ringtone sharing device, and a ringtone receiver. The ringtone originator (e.g., one or more of a personal computer, a mobile telephone, a PDA, or other computing device) allows a user to generate ringtone content using audio content stored locally. A ringtone definition, describing... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070201686 - Subscriber line interface circuitry: An integrated circuit having sense inputs for a sensed tip signal and a sensed ring signal of a subscriber loop is disclosed. The integrated circuit processes the sensed signals to generate a control signal for a subscriber loop linefeed driver.... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070201687 - Subscriber line interface circuitry: An integrated circuit having sense inputs for a sensed tip signal and a sensed ring signal of a subscriber loop is disclosed. The integrated circuit processes the sensed signals to generate an analog control signal for a subscriber loop linefeed driver. The linefeed driver does not reside within a same... Agent: Davis & Associates

20070201688 - Cable telephony network supporting roaming voip terminals: A cable infrastructure includes a plurality of cable modem circuits communicatively coupled to a cable network and associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of subscribers. Each of a plurality of telephones has both a POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) interface and a unique telephone number and associates with... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070201689 - Cover for mobile communication terminal, and mobile communication terminal: In a front surface leather portion of a cover 10, there are formed a display surface opening portion 14 for exposing a display screen of a display of a mobile communication terminal 90, an operating surface opening portion 15 for exposing an operating surface of an input device of the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070195939 - Fully integrated light bar: An emergency system for a vehicle integrates many disparate equipment into single housing. In one embodiment of the invention, the emergency system is a light bar. The light bar houses various modules for monitoring and responding to events. Example modules include license plate recognition systems and chemical agent detection sensors.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070195940 - Determining presence for transaction routing: An Internet Protocol Network Telephony call center having a plurality of agents for serving clients also processes e-mails addresses to the call center, but not to specific agents. An e-mail server receives and routes the e-mail, and includes a router and a database storing skill set information regarding agents. The... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070195941 - Broadband communication platform and methods of network operation: A subscriber platform according to various aspects of the present invention, includes an antenna and a receiver coupled to the antenna. The subscriber platform is operated by a subscriber. A method performed by the subscriber platform includes, in any practical order: (a) receiving non-redundant information on several channels, each channel... Agent: Bachand Law Office

20070195942 - Systems and methods for providing user profile information in conjunction with an enhanced caller information system: An enhanced caller-id service providing multi-media based caller information to subscribers via a server system. The server system can combine user-provided profile information with other data to provide more detailed reports for the subscriber. The server can also be used to maintain long-term calling records for subscribers. The caller information... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070195943 - Remote pbx system and advanced communication terminals: A method for providing a remote PBX service by a customer's phone service provider. More than one telephone number is assigned to one customer's telephone communication link. The one customer's telephone communication link is in communication with at least one telephone. A connect signal is received by the customer's phone... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070195944 - Systems and methods for context drilling in workforce optimization: The systems and methods described herein provide a drill through engine that facilitates integration of solutions for performing workforce management, quality monitoring, e-learning, performance management, and analytics functionality. The drill through engine facilitates combining quality monitoring/call recording with performance management and e-learning functionality as a unified integrated solution. The combination... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070195945 - Systems and methods for facilitating contact center coaching: Systems and methods for facilitating contact center coaching are provided. In this regard, a representative method includes: receiving information corresponding to a condition indicating that the agent is failing to meet pre-established criteria; scheduling a coaching meeting with the agent in order to address the condition; and scheduling training for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070195946 - Semiconductor integrated circuit device: A semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with a plurality of power supply wire layers including a first potential power supply wire and a second potential power supply wire formed in different layers. At least one capacitor contact wire extends from one of the first and second potential power supply wires... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070195947 - Procedure in conjunction with making a telecommunication call and a telecommunication terminal arrangement: The subject of the present invention is a procedure and an equipment arrangement in conjunction with making a telecommunication call. In said procedure implemented in conjunction with making a call, means of searching included in a telecommunication terminal arrangement are used to directly or indirectly at least partly browse through... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070189468 - Emergency call processing apparatus and method in private switching system: An emergency call processing apparatus and method in a private switching system according to certain embodiments is available for some emergency telephone numbers, such as 119 and 911, set for emergency. A private branch exchange has more extension subscribers than office lines, and thus the extension subscribers share the office... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070189470 - System and method for providing real time news: In a system and method for providing real time news, web blog information, and the like to a mobile terminal in a communication network, an RDF Site Summary (RSS) document is used to provide the news information, thereby standardizing an object for news information extraction and reducing the time consumed... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell Suite 300

20070189464 - Method for distributing hardware and software resources for high bit rate link control:

20070189465 - Systems and methods for facilitating placement of telecommunications test calls: A method for placing a test call in a telecommunications network. The method includes retrieving an indication of a translation change for a telecommunications switch from storage and placing a test call to test whether the translation change was successful.... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070189467 - Method and apparatus for bypassing overload control for emergency calls: A method and apparatus for enabling a network element to continue to process and respond to emergency, e.g., E911, call signaling messages despite any overload control mechanism that might be in effect due to congestions caused and experienced by other non-emergency call signaling messages are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070189466 - Method and apparatus for disabling advanced call features during an emergency call: A method and apparatus for disabling advanced call forwarding service features when a subscriber places an emergency call, e.g., an E911 call, during the E911 call until a normal call disconnect signaling protocol message is received for the E911 call are disclosed. In addition, the advanced call forwarding service features... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070189469 - Method and apparatus for providing location information for an emergency service: A method and apparatus for providing an update reminder with an embedded hotlink to a subscriber to update their actual physical location information each time a change in actual physical location is detected by the network are disclosed. For example, subscribers must either enter their new physical location address information... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070189471 - Communication apparatus: If a signal-to-noise ratio determining unit determines that a ratio of a signal level to a noise level exceeds a threshold, and also if a preamble determining unit determines that logical data matches preamble data, a communication apparatus starts receiving a communication frame. In other words, the communication apparatus starts... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070189472 - Service provider customer callback tracking system and method: A system is used with advertisements or merchant listings that include promotional phone numbers associated with particular merchants. A database includes associations between phone numbers for the merchants and their promotional numbers. A call tracker includes an interface that receives calls and identifies a phone number called and a calling... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070189473 - Systems and methods to collect information just in time for connecting people for real time communications: Systems and methods to collect information over a connection with a caller just in time for further connecting the caller to a callee. In one embodiment, a connection server is configured to provide to a caller a reference associated with the first criterion, to identify the first criterion based on... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070189479 - Call processing system with call screening: A system is described in which call processing considers unique information about the call to better serve the caller and/or to enable the called party to more efficiently handle the call. In one embodiment, the unique information considered by the call processor is information indicator digits, which may indicate to... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070189474 - Initiating ecommerce sessions using multimedia ringback tones: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide ecommerce services using multimedia ringback tones. A communication network of the invention comprises a network node and a multimedia ringback system. The network node receives a call from a calling party to a called party and routes the call to multimedia... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070189477 - Integrated disparate intelligent peripherals: A method for providing a service over a communications network includes interacting, by a first networked communications apparatus, over the communications network with a remote requesting party according to a script. The method also includes interacting, by the first networked communications apparatus, with a second networked communications apparatus according to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070189478 - Method and system for providing information for identifying callers based on partial number: Embodiments of the present invention include a caller identification system and method for identifying a caller with a partial phone number look-up table. The caller identification system comprises a database that stores received calls and can be personalized to include information specific to partial phone numbers. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070189475 - Method for selective call-waiting in a communication system: A system and method (300) are disclosed for selective call-waiting in a communication system. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device (102) having a controller (206) that manages operations of a transceiver (202) for exchanging messages in a communication system, and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070189480 - Response advisor for a call handling system: Systems and methods are presented for handling calls. In one embodiment of the invention, a call handling system is configured for handling a variety of emergency and/or non emergency related calls. The call handling system may enable recognition of and response to received call information. The call handling system comprises... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070189476 - Telephone management system and method: A method is provided to dynamically interact with a plurality of enabled devices within a personal network. Individual ones of the devices are configured to interoperate with a service provider network and configure or alter services to individually identifiable devices.... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff L.L.P.

20070189481 - Telephone call routing: Inbound calls to an enterprise are handled by a call-handling component, by identifying the calling party from intrinsic information about the call, by identifying a potential recipient from non-intrinsic information about the calling party, and by automatically routing the inbound call to a potential recipient.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070189482 - Communication handoff between telephone devices: A method of moving telephone communication from a first device engaged in a call, to a second device. The method includes initiating a determination of status of the first device from the second device, joining the second device to the call to form a conference in response to an active... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070189483 - Collective housing intercom system: Irrespective of the distance of a line through which a video signal is taken by the camera of a main entrance station, a satisfactory image having not deterioration but excellent visibility is displayed in a monitor of a residential master station. A distance decision unit of a residential master station... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070189485 - Marine switching system for providing time information and method thereof: A marine switching system providing time information and a method thereof are provided. The marine switching system includes a marine clock, a key-phone system, and at least one key-phone terminal. The marine clock detects a current local time according to the longitude at which a ship is located, and outputs... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070189484 - System and method for enabling external service logic for calls involving number portability lrns: A system and method for handling a call involving Number Portability in a telecommunications network is provided. A Call Control Entity (CCE) detects a Location Routing Number (LRN) event invoking service logic on an External Network Entity (ENE), separate from the CCE, to provide enhanced service for ported calls.... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070189486 - Communication apparatus, system, method and computer readable medium: There is provided with a communication apparatus connected to a first network on which service providing servers are disposed, including: a service finder configured to find a service providing server on the first network; and a transmitter configured to transmit an information packet including a header part and a data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070189487 - Automatic voice conference actions driven by potential conferee presence: A presence trigger system and a service system support automatic actions on a voice conference based on the presence state of potential conferees of the voice conference. The systems may, for example, initiate contacting and joining the potential conferee to the voice conference when the potential conferee presence state indicates... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070189488 - Method of providing improved ringback tone signaling: The RingBack Tone song that a subscriber to a RingBack Tone service has selected to be played to callers instead of the traditional ringing is prepended with a personalized message from the subscriber so as to avoid confusing the called party who is expecting to hear ringing until the call... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator

20070189489 - System and method for dynamically routing communications: A system and method for routing an incoming call to a subscriber-selected destination number in accordance with dynamic data concerning the subscriber provided by an address book, a calendar and a presence server. A routing system routes the incoming call in accordance with a subscriber-defined routing rule associated with the... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070189490 - Data redirection system and method using internet protocol private branch exchange: A multimedia redirection system and method using an IP PBX are provided. The PBX system allocates at least one channel for multimedia data transmission between a private IP terminal and a public IP terminal, maps between ports of the channels, and direction-transmits the multimedia data between the private IP terminal... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20070189491 - Local exchange routing guide information maintenance system and method: The present invention system and method facilitates efficient and accurate maintenance of LERG information. The present system and method periodic implementation of LERG downloads permits network devices to automatically update LERG information. A local exchange routing guide update method includes performing an automated LERG maintenance initialization process; engaging in an... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070189492 - Peering network for parameter-based routing of special number calls: A system and method that routes special number calls from communications devices to an answering point that is selected based on a parameter. A peering network effects parameter-based routing of calls to a pre-assigned answering point, wherein the voice path and the signaling paths are set up simultaneously. A gateway... Agent: Michele Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20070189493 - Interactive voice system: An interactive voice system is provided that includes a user interface connected to present audio outputs to a user and to receive inputs from the user. A computer system utilizes code arranged to generate the audio outputs and to respond to the inputs from the user. A model generator arranged... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070189494 - Methods and apparatus for estimating call intents and recalls:

20070189495 - Over-voltage protection circuit: A network device comprising an integrated circuit configured for coupling to lines between a network connector and an Ethernet physical layer (PHY) and comprising a diode bridge and protection circuitry integrated onto a common integrated circuit whereby parasitics in an energy discharge path and stress on the PHY and the... Agent: Koestner Bertani LLP

20070189497 - Telephone communications system, a method of delivering content to a calling party and a method of distributing information to a calling party: A telephone communications system, a method of delivering content to a calling party and a method of distributing information to a calling party. In one embodiment, the telephone communications system includes: (1) a master subsystem configured to store ringback information including content and application rules for the ringback information and... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20070189496 - Services and transactions in a telephony network: A method of operating a telephony service on a telephony network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of establishing and/or requesting a telephonic connection and/or a call between a caller and a call recipient, receiving a command signal initiated by the caller and/or the call recipient and/or the telephony... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070189501 - Method for synchronizing contact information: A method for synchronizing the contact information, which is applied in the synchronization between a wireless exchange device and a communication device. Both the wireless exchange devices and the communication devices have a synchronization software, respectively. The synchronization software allows the wireless exchange device and the communication device to be... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070189498 - Photo telephone directory and methods of making and using a photo telephone directory: A telephone directory having a plurality of pages is disclosed. The pages can be moveable between a first position and a second position such that a desired page can be selected by moving pages from the first position to the second position until the desired page is at the top... Agent: Ken Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20070189502 - Portable terminal device: In a situation where a plurality of “telephone numbers” as subscriber numbers and “fixed IDs” fixedly assigned to the “telephone numbers” in association with each other are stored and managed in a telephone number table, in a case where an arbitrary site is accessed using one of the “fixed IDs”... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070189499 - System and method for obtaining telecommunication access numbers: A method for determining a user intended number from a partial phone number includes steps for receiving a partial phone number, determining whether the partial phone number corresponds with at least one database number based on at least one selected criteria list and performing a system action based on the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070189500 - Systems and techniques for optimistic caching for address translations: Various embodiments directed to managing a call connection are described. In one or more embodiments, a call management module may retrieve a network address associated with a telephone number, initiate a first call connection using the network address from a call terminal, determine whether the network address is valid by... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20070189503 - System and method of publishing contact information: A system and method of publishing contact information is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a command to publish a collection of contacts to a plurality of recipients, where the collection of contacts is associated with a network address book of a sender. The method also includes... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070189504 - Systems and methods for caller-controlled tune notification of a call: A system and method for a caller to control a tune notification for a telephone call includes a service switching point and a service control point. The service switching point is operable to receive a tune notification service access code and a called directory number, and to issue a query... Agent: Attention Of D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070189506 - Method and apparatus for echo cancellation: An exemplary embodiment of an echo cancellation circuit is provided, for use in a voice interaction device simultaneously outputting a remote signal while receiving a local signal. The local signal may comprise an echo generated from the remote signal. A first filter learns the remote signal at a first speed... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070189507 - Conference terminal with echo reduction for a voice conference system: A conference terminal for a digital voice conference system comprises a first sound transducer means, which is implemented to generate a microphone signal from an acoustic signal, a second sound transducer means, which is implemented to generate an acoustic signal from a loudspeaker signal, a connecting means, which is implemented... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20070189505 - Detecting reflections in a communication channel: A system (301) and corresponding method (1200) are arranged for detecting reflections in a communication channel. The system comprises first and second multi-rate filters (311, 313) having bandpass characteristics and configured to provide first and second filtered signals, a sub rate adaptive filter (315) configured to process the filtered signals... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20070189508 - Acoustic echo canceller with multimedia training signal: In an electronic device having an acoustic echo canceller and being capable of implementing audio applications and at least one of a conferencing application and a telephony application, there is provided a background training method for the acoustic echo canceller. The method includes the step of utilizing sound that corresponds... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070183591 - Dynamic bandwidth allocation: A method for maintaining the quality of transmission from a head end to a service unit in a telecommunications system that uses a multi-carrier transmission scheme with dynamic bandwidth allocation is disclosed. The method involves allocating a first payload channel to a service unit in a subband of a transmission... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070183592 - Method and apparatus for inconspicuous audio notification: A portable device that produces inconspicuous sounds for event notification is disclosed. One type of inconspicuous sound is a sound that the human body makes in response to an involuntary bodily function. For example, the portable device could produce the sound of a cough to alert the user of an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070177717 - System for integrated electronic communications: A system is disclosed for integrating electronic mail, voice mail, and fax mail in a universal mailbox. Message receivers may access their messages with a telephone or a computer regardless of the communication medium used by the message sender. Using a telephone, message receivers may playback voice mail, redirect fax... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.