Telephonic communications inventions 09/07

20070223658 - Method and apparatus to facilitate deployment of one or more private civil security resources: Prior to an occurrence of an applicable civilly-catastrophic event, one provides (101) a memory (404) having information stored therein regarding authorized beneficiaries of consideration-based private civil security subscriptions that provide civilly-catastrophic event-based access to at least one private civil security resource (301). One then also provides (103) a processor (201)... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070223659 - Integrated chat client with receiving party choice: Phone systems for an integrated chat client service are provided. A representative phone system includes a call processing system operable to check a chat server for accessibility of a calling party chat client associated with a calling party and coupled to the internet, the call processing system being further operable... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070223660 - Audio communication method and device: An audio communication device includes a plurality of encoding units and decoding units, and switches the encoding format from one to another according to the useable transmission band or to a user audio quality request or to a delay request. The audio encoded data that is received is decoded by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070223661 - Voicemail box with caller-specific storage folders: A method and system are provided for creating and utilizing caller-specific memory locations or folders within a single voicemail box of a telecommunications network-based voicemail system. A subscriber to voicemail services sets up a plurality of caller-specific memory locations or folders within her voicemail box for directing incoming messages to... Agent: Attn: D. Kent Stier Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070223662 - Content sensitive do-not-disturb (dnd): A method and apparatus is described to process an incoming telephone call. The method may comprise, at a recipient telephone system, receiving the incoming call including speech and identifying when a Do-Not-Disturb option is set. The Do-Not-Disturb option may identify that a user has requested not to receive telephone calls.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070223664 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a first memory which memorizes group tables respectively showing correspondence relations between groups constituted by dividing the plurality of data terminals and data IDs of data terminals belonging to these groups, a second memory which memorizes band tables respectively showing correspondence relations... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070223663 - Customized ring back tone service for wireline subscribers: Methods and systems are presented for providing custom ring back tones to parties calling a wireline subscriber, in which an end office selectively connects the incoming call to a ring back tone server to hear a custom ring back tone until the wireline phone is answered, after which the incoming... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20070223665 - Calling party announcement apparatus: A calling party announcement apparatus that provides the identity of the caller in synthesized human speech. The invention captures the Incoming Caller Line Identification (ICLID) signal sent by the telephone company. The invention announces the calling party's identity to the called party through a built-in speaker and over the telephone... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070223666 - Electronic equipment and service providing personalized call features: A server provides call hold functions to a communications network through which a call between a user electronic equipment and one or more called/calling devices is routed. The server includes a network interface that connects the server to the communications network, and a controller that is coupled to the communications... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070223670 - Communication apparatus and method: A communication apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify another communication apparatus on a network of the start of a service, a reception unit configured to receive a service join request in response to the notification, a determination unit configured to determine whether to provide the service to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223669 - Method and apparatus for alternatively switching between phone service lines: An automatic switching device that alternatively connects the customer's telephony devices via the in-home UTP wiring to the desired telephony service, primary or secondary, upon receiving an incoming call via that service is described. The new device will work reliably with any type of ringing signal provided by the telco,... Agent: Don P. Williams

20070223671 - Task dispatching system: An assignment system for allocating service providers to required services, comprising: a data processing unit; a data store storing a plurality of allocation processing routines each defining a respective algorithm for determining in respect of a service which of a series of potential providers of that service is/are preferred to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070223668 - Inserting content into a connection using an intermediary: Inserting audio content into one or more communications channels includes associating audio content with one or more corresponding triggers. A communications channel is established with an initiating device and a host, and a communications channel is established with a recipient device and the host. Voice communications are enabled to be... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070223667 - Service request apparatus and service request process method: A service request apparatus that is connected to a service providing apparatus is disclosed. The service request apparatus includes: a failure state storing unit configured to store a failure state of the service providing apparatus; and a service request determination unit configured to refer to the failure state storing unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070223672 - Pro-active features for telephony: A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents, a plurality of device agents for controlling operation of associated communication devices for respective ones of the users, and a plurality of user agents representing a plurality of users,... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070223677 - Multi-party communication system, terminal device, multi-party communication method, program and recording medium: The present invention provides a multi-party communication system in which the speaking party can be identified aurally and the speech contents can be accurately transmitted to the party at the receiving terminal. A multi-party communication server and a plurality of terminal devices with a communication function make up the multi-party... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070223676 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a controller which selectively executes at least one of first processing of executing communication connections among data terminals to be respectively associated with a plurality of phone IDS included in the call information event, and second processing of making the conference processing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070223674 - Endpoint initiation of multipart conferences: The invention discloses a method in an MCU for enabling intuitive endpoint initiation of a multipart conference. According to the invention, a number of conference numbers are pre-allocated and stored in the MCU. When dialling one of these numbers from an endpoint, a call will be routed to the MCU.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223675 - Method and system for low latency high quality music conferencing: A method and system for real-time, low latency, high quality audio conferencing are disclosed. The system allows delivering low latency during peer to peer transmission of high quality compressed audio streams between remotely located participants. The system provides transmission of audio as well as any audio data with low latency... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070223673 - Muting conference call hold music: A switching system that provides conference call functionality can mute music played into the conference call by the muting of a conference call participant. The muting of conference call music can be accomplished by controlling the switch's connection to a music on hold source or by controlling the music on... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070223678 - Call-back method in a communication system: This invention relates to a call-back method in a communication system for purposes of establishing a communication connection between a calling terminal (A) and a called terminal (B, C) accessible by a telephone number by switching of at least one exchange (E), whereby the telephone number is simply entered in... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish

20070223679 - Mobile device calls via private branch exchange: Communication systems and methods are described that enable mobile devices to route telephone calls via an enterprise telephone system. The communication system is configured to receive via a data channel a request from the mobile device. The mobile device corresponds to a user making a call. The server receiving the... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070223680 - System to regulate aspects of an environment with a limited number of service stations: A system to automatically adjust an aspect of an environment with a limited number of service stations usable by customers. The system includes a sensor to provide a measurement based the present or expected the number of service stations used by a customer; a processor to determine a value representing... Agent: Schox PLC

20070223681 - Protocols for connecting intelligent service modules in a storage area network: Implementations are disclosed that provide protocols for connecting an intelligent service module within a storage area network (SAN). The protocols support physical connections between the intelligent service module and a director-level switch of the SAN. In some variations, the intelligent service module may comprise a director service module (DSM), a... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20070223682 - Electronic device for identifying a party: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of associating first data identifying a first party with second data to allow future recognition of the first party, including the steps of: conducting a telephone call with the first party; storing second data derived from the telephone call with the first... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070223683 - System and method of storing contact information: A system and method of storing contact information is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a request from a user at a web server of an Internet Protocol (IP) network to view call log data stored at a call log data store of the IP network. The... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070223684 - Modular arrangement in the field of telecommunications: A modular arrangement (10) in the field of telecommunications comprises a first contact module (16) adapted to be mounted to a carrier (18) in the field of telecommunications and having plural contacts (26, 28) arranged in plural pairs, which are adapted to connect wires (30, 32) therewith, at least one... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070217577 - Private civil defense-themed television broadcasting method: One provides (101) a plurality of private civil defense audiovisual programs, wherein various ones of the plurality of private civil defense audiovisual programs provide private civil defense information regarding both naturally-caused and human-caused civilly-catastrophic events. Taken in the aggregate, this private civil defense information (102) comprises information regarding various elements... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070217580 - Systems for development and/or use of telephone user interface: Some embodiments provide a touch-sensitive device to receive a bias and to generate touch location information based on the bias, an element to secure a printed medium in contact with the touch sensitive device, the printed medium to depict a plurality of telephone interface controls, a memory to store a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070217576 - System and method for analysing communications streams: Systems and methods for analyzing communications of a contact center are provided. A representative system incorporates a first computer application operative to reconstruct progress of a communication through the contact center such that information corresponding to the progress of the communication is presented to a user.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070217578 - Method and apparatus for providing emergency calls to a disabled endpoint device: The present invention enables the remote activation of a device by a packet-switched service, e.g., VoIP network service for the purposes of receiving calls identified as urgent from a pre-identified calling party when the device is disabled. The present invention enables registered users to select the calling parties they wish... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070217579 - System and method for enhanced voice mail: The present invention is directed to methods, systems and apparatuses for an enhanced voice mail system. The enhanced voice mail system provides integrated access to media rich content such as e-mail, voice mail, fax, video clips, or digital still images accessed from a variety of Internet communities. The enhanced voice... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070217581 - System and method for implementing prepaid data services: The present invention discloses a system and method for implementing prepaid data services in a mobile communication network. In this system, a Data service Access Control Point (DACP), which is used for fulfilling price confirmation function and fee application function for data services, is added between a Service Control Point... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070217582 - System for uniquely identifying and reaching voip users: A method for setting up an account for using a voice service comprising receiving a registration request, including a telephone number or an email address belonging to a user and creating the account by storing the existing email address or the existing telephone number of the user or at least... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070217583 - Communication device outside-connected incoming call indicator and earphone device having such an incoming call indicator: A communication device outside-connected incoming call indicator and an earphone device having such an incoming call indicator are provided. The incoming call indicator has a first communication port connected to a communication device, which is used to receive the incoming call; and an incoming call indication module used to detect... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070217584 - System and method for implementing and accessing call forwarding services: A provisioning server implements a telephony service associated with a user, in which calls involving a directory number of the user are processed in accordance with the telephony service and customized call service data. The provisioning server interfaces a call processor with a web server and an interactive voice response... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070217586 - Animatronic creatures that act as intermediaries between human users and a telephone system: An animatronic telephone agent consisting of a communications subsystem connected to a wired or wireless telephone network for receiving incoming telephone calls, and a robotic automaton coupled to the communications subsystem and responsive to incoming telephone calls for performing different movements that provide non-verbal visual cues to a human observer... Agent: Charles G. Call

20070217585 - Method and apparatus for event notification: A method (300) and apparatus are disclosed for event notification. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a presence services system (PSS) (102) can have a controller (104) that manages operations of a communications interface (110). The controller can be programmed to monitor (302)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070217587 - Method and system for providing location information associated with a calling party: Systems and methods for providing location information associated with a calling party are disclosed. Generally, a query is received from a network element. A location associated with a calling party is identified in response to receipt of the query, and an indication of the location is transmitted for delivery to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070217588 - Method for distributing software and configuration data with time monitoring, and corresponding data network: Distribution of software and configuration data is provided in data networks with a plurality of subscribers in a temporally defined manner. The software or data to be distributed is subdivided into data blocks and a corresponding list is generated. A first data block and the list are sent from a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070217590 - Apparatus and system for representation of voices of participants to a conference call: A system for facilitating to an end-user the recognition of other participants attending a conference call, comprising means attached to the end-user's telephone for receiving signals from the telephone line, means for analyzing the telephone line signals and associating a unique caller identification to each new participant joining the conference... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070217591 - Status notification system for a voice communications telephone, voice communications telephone, status management apparatus, and notification method therefor: A status notification system for notifying a status of a voice communications telephone, the system includes a plurality of voice communications telephones registered to the same group, a status management apparatus managing a status of the plurality of voice communications telephones, and a network connecting the plurality of voice communications... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070217589 - Voip conferencing: A VoIP-based conferencing system readily handles different protocols, load balance media resources and deals with fail-over situations. The VOIP conferencing system has a gateway coupled to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). A Voice Server Director (VSD) is coupled to the gateway and performs the control function of the conferencing... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20070217592 - System and method for identifying redirected calls: Methods and systems for identifying redirected calls are provided. A method may include receiving data related to a call termination request. The call termination request may indicate call redirection. The method may also include selecting one of a plurality of distinctive rings in response to the data related to the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070217593 - Method and apparatus for configuration of call forwarding through email or sms messages: This disclosure is a method and system for the remote configuration of call forwarding. The method includes receiving an initiating transmission from a user, accessing an account that is associated with said user, and altering the call forwarding settings of said account. The initiating transmission may include, among other things,... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070217595 - Communicating device and method of peer to peer communication between voip devices: The present invention provides a communicating device and a method for peer to peer communication between voice over IP (VOIP) devices by means of transmitting IP address to remote site by Call ID method and establishing a data structure. The data structure stated above may record the Internet IP address... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20070217596 - Method and system for locally performing local number portability switching at a media terminal device: The message may be an SNMP MIB, a ring signal or a command line interface message; delivery may be via DOCSIS, PacketCable, SIP, or other method. The switching processing components may include relay coils in an alternating arrangement coupled to a source node and to separate relay driver pins of... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20070217594 - System and method for processing status information of peers in a communication network: The invention provides a system and method providing status information for a first device in a communication network to a second device. The system comprises: a database storing status information regarding availability of the first device; and a data access system providing the status information to the second device. The... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070217597 - Method and apparatus for concurrently processing multiple calls in a spread spectrum communications system: The call processing state machines defined by the CDMA standards (e.g., IS-95 and IS-2000) are modified to include a “traffic channel” substate indicative of the mobile station processing at least one active call. Call control (CC) state machines of various types are also provided to control the processing of the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070217598 - Connection of a communications unit to a softphone of a pc: A PC containing a softphone is connected to a headset (14) by means of a control unit (9) which is connected to a USB gate (6) in the PC. The PC has a security function, which means that the PC can be accessed only by users who e.g. know an... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070217600 - Apparatus and method for controlling acoustic echo cancellation in mobile communication terminal: An apparatus and method for controlling acoustic echo cancellation in a mobile communication terminal are capable of improving phenomena occurring during a call, such as an echo phenomenon, muting phenomenon and fluctuation of transmitting signals, by performing real-time monitoring of the signal of a speaker output stage and effectively controlling... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070217599 - Cache-based echo canceller: A system and methods for pre-configuring echo cancellers are shown and described. The system includes a storage device for storing one or more settings of the echo cancellation parameters developed during one or more previously established data connections, and an echo canceller for cancelling echo associated with one or more... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070211864 - System for remote integration and testing of a telephone loop: A system for integration and testing of remote telephone loops allows the integration of remote telephone units to a serving switch located in a different central office facility. The remote integration provides integration of voice and data services, as well as a mechanized loop testing capability. Test signals may be... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070211865 - Methods and computer program products for tracking modifications in physical plant during maintenance of a communication network: Modifications made to physical plant in maintaining a communication network may be tracked by receiving notices corresponding to incidences in which physical plant is modified in performing maintenance tasks on a communication network and associated time information, receiving information specifying a total number of maintenance tasks performed on the communication... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070211866 - Public safety warning network: A communications infrastructure is upgraded to a public safety network that supports wireless communications of emergency information. Communities have installed public safety communications systems such as community warning siren systems that rely on point-to-point communications systems. Each site in the system is upgraded to a node in a wireless network... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070211867 - Method and apparatus for token distribution in session for future polling or subscription: A system and a method are disclosed for authenticating a subsequent callback from a public safety answering point (PSAP) in response to a user agent's initial emergency call. In one embodiment, the user agent forwards a token to the PSAP during the initial call, and the PSAP returns the token... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070211868 - Integrated system providing proxy voice mail and switching functionality: Integrating proxy voice mail server (PVMS) and a switch/router into a single unit. According to another aspect, the PVMS downloads voice mail messages (related to users served in PVMS) when bandwidth utilization is below a pre-specified threshold. According to another aspect, previously recorded voice mail messages are uploaded to a... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070211869 - Communications wait music: A system for playing entertainment data during a wait period of a communications call. The system includes a first communications device and a second communications device. The first communications device is adapted to play the entertainment data for a user. The second communications device is adapted to have the communications... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070211870 - Telephone call dialling: A communications device such as a mobile telephone (1) responds to the input of a dialled number for a call destination (2) by generating and outputting a request message transmitted to a control centre (7) via a telecommunications system (3). The device receives a response message from the control centre... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070211871 - Method and system for organizing incident records in an electronic equipment: A method of managing incident records in a mobile radio terminal includes, upon the occurrence of an incident involving the mobile radio terminal, generating an incident record associated with the incident, and associating location information with the incident record, the location information being indicative of a location of the mobile... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070211872 - Content sharing through multimedia ringback tones: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide a content sharing service through multimedia ringback tones. The communication network comprises a network node and a multimedia ringback system. The network node receives a call from a calling party to a subscriber of the content sharing service, and routes the... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070211873 - Method and system for outputting caller information: A method for outputting caller information which is saved in a caller information server, including: upon receiving a call request carrying a calling number from a switching system, the called terminal sends a request for caller information carrying the calling number to the caller information server according to the calling... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070211874 - Method and system for providing enhanced call waiting and caller identification: An efficient and effective method and system for providing to a customer an audible call notification of a current call and a subsequently received call waiting call. The present embodiments notify the customer that a current call is waiting in an effective manner that reduces confusion. Confusion is reduced by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070211875 - Method of controlling an electronic device using audio inputs: A method of controlling an electronic device, during a voice call, using audio inputs, the method including detecting a first interrupt during the voice call while audio input control is disabled; controlling the electronic device, in response to detection of the first interrupt, to prevent the inclusion of audio inputs... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070211876 - Systems and methods for consent-based recording of voice data: Wireless telecommunications systems, methods and devices for processing voice data in connection with a wireless telecommunications system that includes a wireless remote device and a wireless recording device that are configured for communication with a network server. Methods include obtaining varying levels of consent from users of recording devices and/or... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070211877 - Security system and method for blocking an incoming telephone call, and a security system with a telephone do not disturb feature: A method and system for blocking an incoming telephone call based upon at least one predetermined criterion. The system includes a security device having a user device for imputting a first control signal to block the incoming telephone call, and for inputting a second control signal for controlling at least... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070211878 - User interface for telephone system administration: A user interface for a telephone system may include a telephone portion operable to provide telephone administration functionality for each of a plurality of telephones of a telephone system. The telephone portion may include a telephone icon corresponding to at least one telephone of the plurality of telephones, the telephone... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070211881 - Call center user interface and methods of using same: Methods and apparatus for a call center system are disclosed for an agent to answer calls from customers of a business. A disclosed example call center system has a database to store customer data and a script generator to provide scripts for dialog with a customer. The system also may... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070211880 - Method and system for providing menu tree assistance: A method for providing menu tree assistance includes receiving a voice request from a user via a telematics unit and a wireless network and determining a voice menu tree based on the voice request. The method further includes receiving at least one response based on the voice menu tree, determining... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070211879 - Methods and systems for providing dynamic message content to callers on hold: Methods and systems for providing dynamic messages to callers on hold are disclosed. In one such method, a telephone call is received into a queue and a first wait time is calculated which corresponds to a first estimated length of time expected to elapse before an agent is available to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070211882 - Control method for a telecommunication distribution system: A computerized method for controlling an interconnected system of cross-connect distribution units having a plurality of user ports, wherein each user port of each of the CDUs corresponds to a unique logical port number, includes receiving a command including one of the unique logical port numbers and a service to... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070211883 - Telecommunications device having distribution units arranged in block configuration: A telecommunications apparatus includes a housing. A plurality of circuit boards are fastened in a vertical column within the housing. Each circuit board has a cross-connect distribution unit (CDU) disposed thereupon, and each CDU includes a plurality of user output locations, network input locations, service input locations, supplemental input locations,... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070211884 - Privacy protection method for terminal subscriber, privacy protection terminal device, and privacy protection program: A privacy protection method for a terminal subscriber and a terminal and program for implementing the same are provided, wherein at least either a picture or voice associated with at least either an individual or an organization registered in an address book is preregistered in a terminal equipped with a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070211885 - System and method for detecting a connection condition of a phone jack: A phone jack connection detection system and method of operating the same, including a phone jack circuit having a data access arrangement circuit in communication with at least two pins, a stimulus input in communication with the phone jack circuit, the stimulus input being adapted to communicate a stimulus to... Agent: Lexmark Intrntl IncIPLaw Dept

20070211887 - Method and system for controlling an operation of an electrical power network: A system (400) and method for controlling an operation of an electrical power network (420) is described. The method includes configuring an allowable performance of an electrical power network over a predetermined time period as a probability expression comprising a historical term and a future term having an electrical power... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070211886 - Phone converter system: A phone converter system may allow a phone customer to keep a standard phone where the dial tone is maintained even when power is lost in the home. The phone converter system is maintained in the phone company's network, and not in the user's home. The phone converter system includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070211888 - Power line communications module and method: A system, device and method for providing communications to a plurality of customer premises via one or more external low voltage power lines is provided. One embodiment of the system includes a power line communication device comprising a first modem configured to communicate over the one or more external low... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20070211889 - Portable telephone: A portable telephone in which two bodies thereof are placed in superposed relation, and one body slides relative to the other body to change how far they superpose, thus expanding and contracting the overall length of the telephone in the sliding direction. The one body can pull out relative to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070206730 - Determining a local emergency dial-string: Determining a local emergency dial-string includes determining location information of an endpoint in a network. The location information indicates a current location of the endpoint. An emergency dial-string is received. The emergency dial-string is determined according to the location information, and the emergency dial-string operates to contact an emergency service... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070206735 - System and method for enabling dtmf detection in a voip network: A method, mobile terminal, and system for selectively establishing an outgoing caller ID on a mobile terminal served by a wireless network, for identifying a line called on a mobile terminal, and for directing a call from a mobile terminal to a network subscriber based on accessed information of the... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20070206728 - Computer home/office integrated police and fire safety system: A computer-integrated fire safety system, along with software, that would contact police and/or fire department in the event of a fire and/or toxic fumes at its location.... Agent: John Volpentesta

20070206729 - Telephone line dialer and emergency call system: Emergency call system by which a caller can automatically call other parties to leave an emergency message, includes an emergency call unit having a memory for storing telephone numbers to be called and the emergency message, an emergency key, and a microprocessor for controlling storage of the numbers and emergency... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070206731 - System and method for providing dsl and selected telephone service over a common line: The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing DSL services and selected telephone service over a common telephone line. Digits or the called numbers are received and if the called numbers correspond to an escape code, the call is enabled. A selected announcement to the calling number may... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070206734 - Coalescence of voice mail systems: A coalescence voice mail service provider enables a user to access all of the user's voice mail systems implemented within the various telecommunications systems the user has accounts with. Using any one of the telecommunications devices of the user, the user accesses voice mail from any one or more of... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070206732 - Information processing apparatus and method, program recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, a program recording medium, and a program which mitigate inconveniences due to a difference in recording format when performing the processing of copying or moving data between two recording media of different recording formats. A device control section 16... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070206733 - Phone call media exchange before and after pick-up in packet and circuit switched telephony networks: In packet and circuit switched telephone networks, a plurality of telephony devices support call media exchange and playback both before and after call pick up. Prior to detecting pick-up, a calling telephony device sends announcement media to a receiving telephony device. The receiving telephony device responds by both sending greeting... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070206736 - Sharing profile data between telecommunication devices: A telecommunications device and/or service enable a user to establish and maintain a profile which is then associated with the user or the user's telecommunication device (the “calling device”). The profile is stored on a profile server that is in communication with the telecommunications service provider. A receiving device receives... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070206737 - Method and apparatus for accessing a wide area network: A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for “reading” text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the telephone user. Preferably, the access system receives... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC Dba Tips Group

20070206738 - Secure voice communication channel for confidential messaging: A unified messaging system includes a unit to store a message operable to store a message sent to a user, the message having a selectable security attribute set to a one of a plurality of levels. A module associated with the unit operates to secure a voice channel used by... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070206739 - Integrated fax and voice messaging: Systems and method for providing integrated fax and voice messaging are provided. At the time a fax request is created, a user can enter one or more voice messages to accompany the fax message to be played upon delivery. The audio message is integrated into the fax message as digital... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070206740 - Method and apparatus for setting programmable features of an appliance: An interactive interface facilitates the setting of preferences and other programmable parameters of an appliance. The interface is hosted by a server on a global computer network. The appliance owner initiates a connection to the server and is presented with a graphical user interface for setting the preferences and features... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070206741 - Method and apparatus for monitoring network activity: A method (200) and apparatus (102, 108) are disclosed for monitoring network activity. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an activity notification system (ANS) (102) having a controller (104) that manages operations of a communications interface (110) for communicating with network elements (101)... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070206742 - Advertising demographics reporting system: The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for compiling and furnishing demographic data to advertisers based upon a plurality of promotions deployed during free phone calls.... Agent: Giaccherini

20070206743 - System and method for facilitating transaction over a communication network: A system capable of facilitating a transaction over a communication network comprises a transaction platform capable of storing at least one card identification number, providing a message to a communication device over the communication network requesting the selection of one of the at least one card identification number, and receiving... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070206744 - Method for providing virtual private network services: The present invention discloses a method for providing a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. The method comprises the steps of: after receiving a call request from a user terminal, a Service Control Point (SCP) judging whether the user terminal has applied for a prepaid service at the same time, if... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070206745 - Communication system and transfer control method together with telphone device, communication device, and program used for same: To provide a communication system in which transfer through a telephone repeater can be performed even if the telephone device is different in manufacturer or type and even if the telephone device has a data communication function. A call requesting section sends identification information on the telephone called party (communication... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070206746 - Contacting identity sharing: The present invention simplifies the setting up of a connection to a candidate party from a first portable communication device (10) associated with a first party in relation to a session between the first and a second party (12). As the first and the second parties engage in a first... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070206748 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing caller identification services: A method, system, and computer program product for providing caller identification services to an Internet Protocol-enabled device are provided. The method includes receiving a communication request from a caller device over a voice network, the communication request including a caller party number, mapping a called party number to an Internet... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070206750 - System and method for monitoring incoming communications to a telecommunications device: A system for notifying an Internet-accessible device of a communication placed from a first telecommunications device to a second telecommunications device by a calling party is disclosed. The system includes a switch and a node in communication with the switch. The switch is for detecting the communication. The node is... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070206747 - System and method for performing call screening: An efficient and effective system and method for screening calls is based upon user provided call screening preferences. The present embodiments utilize multiple types of information to effectively screen incoming and outgoing calls. The present embodiments also allow for the user to be notified of the calls that were screened.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070206751 - Incoming call display system: A display system for showing incoming call messages is introduced. The display system includes a monitor, a telephone plug coupled to a telephone signal source, and a microprocessor for controlling the display to show an incoming call message when an incoming call signal is received from the telephone signal source.... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070206752 - System and method for providing custom caller-id messages: Systems and methods for providing a message in Caller-ID information are described. In one embodiment of the present invention, an applications server, such as service control point (SCP), substitutes a message for Caller-ID information when a switch serving the called party's line requests the Caller-ID information. An embodiment may also... Agent: Attention Of Devon K. Grant Merchant & Gould LLC

20070206749 - System and method for location identification: A system for location identification in a local area network comprising: a current limited voltage source; a telecommunications outlet; communication cabling connecting the current limited voltage source to the telecommunications outlet; and a location identifier associated with the telecommunications outlet, the location identifier being responsive to a pre-determined voltage level... Agent: Powerdsine Ltd.

20070206754 - Transmission apparatus and transmission method: When the transmission of image data is not completed, a control section performs a retransmission process for transmitting again the image data to the same destination with the use of the redial function, and counts the number of times of the transmission. The control section determines whether the number of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070206753 - System and method of providing multimedia communication services: A system and method of providing multimedia communication services is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving contextual information including a subscriber identification associated with a wireline communication device at an intelligent service switch (ISS) of an integrated wireline-wireless (IWW) network from a network edge device, where the... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070206756 - Address information-exchange system, communication terminal device, server apparatus, address information-exchange method, and address information-exchange program: The present invention relates to address-information changing and allows for changing automatically address information registered with a communication destination. Upon receiving a change notification transmitted from a communication terminal device including a mobile phone or the like with changed profile information, address information relating to a source-communication terminal device is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070206755 - Method for automatically initiating a call: A method for automatically initiating a call, according to which the existing connections from a first user of a telecommunication network to other users are detected and are evaluated regarding the statistical regularities thereof while calls are initiated to the other users based on the identified statistical regularities is provided.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070206757 - System and method to provide automated scripting for customer service representatives: A disclosed method provides automated scripting to guide a customer service representative (CSR) in handling a call from a customer. Operations within the method may include displaying products and two or more purpose classifications for selection by the CSR. The purpose classifications may include (a) an add classification for customer... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20070206760 - Service-initiated voice chat: Disclosed herein is technology for, among other things, initiating a voice chat. The technology includes accepting information identifying one or more individuals to invite to participate in the voice chat, initiating calls to the one or more individuals to invite the individuals to join the voice chat, and establishing the... Agent: Fonemine C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070206758 - System and method for communicating with a plurality of participants: A system and method for a party to independently and directly communicate with a group of people for the purposes of transmitting and/or receiving voice and data information is provided. The directing party is in control of the entire dialing and broadcasting process in real time, including initiating the communication,... Agent: Henry M. Sinai (ip-partnership)

20070206759 - Systems, methods, and apparatus to record conference call activity: Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed to record conference call activity. An example method disclosed herein includes monitoring a conference call for an action item voice command, detecting the action item voice command, and storing a signal representative of the action item voice command in a memory.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070206761 - Comparative tone return time three-way call detect: The present subject matter is directed to an apparatus and methodology for detecting three-way call attempts during telephone conversations. Per the methodology, apparatus is configured to, in effect, “ping” a called telephone by transmitting an audio frequency range tone over the loop established from the calling telephone to the called... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070206762 - Multiple criteria based load balancing: This invention provides the ability to load balance calls in a communications network using a certain criterion, such as a user-specified call priority, or the call service category. The method is applied when selecting a route for a new call or for re-balancing the calls across a network. When the... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070206763 - Prioritized call load balancing: This invention provides the ability to load balance calls in a communications network using a certain criterion, such as a user-specified call priority, or the call class of service. The method is applied when selecting a route for a new call or for re-balancing the calls across a network. When... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070206771 - Key talk: A system and method for providing verbal communication between at least one first communicator and at least one second communicator. The system includes a plurality of lexicons wherein at least one first lexicon is provided to the at least one first communicator. The at least one first lexicon has a... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070206770 - Method, apparatus, and computer product for computing skill value: A skill-value computing apparatus classifies inquiries into groups of easy and difficult inquiries, and computes a total skill value of an agent by taking into account the difficulty level of each inquiry.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070206765 - Method and system for securing access to information in an automatic call distributor system: A method for granting access to secure information includes receiving from a caller a call for connection with one of a plurality of agents, distributing the call to the agent of the plurality of agents, initiating an active communication session between the caller and the agent for handling the call,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070206766 - System and method for detecting and displaying business transactions: Methods and systems are presented for detecting business transactions from sequences of call center agent activities. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of agent activity events; matching a sequence of events within the received events with one of a plurality of transaction definitions; creating... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070206764 - System and method for integrated display of multiple types of call agent data: Method and systems are presented for presenting multiple activities associated with one of a plurality of call center agents correlated in time. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: determining at least one of the agents to be displayed; and displaying activity information in visual correlation with a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070206767 - System and method for integrated display of recorded interactions and call agent data: Methods and systems are provided for viewing call center agent interactions from a window displaying schedule information. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of: displaying a timeline; displaying a plurality of agent events, where the agent events include exceptions to an agent activity; displaying each exception in visual... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070206768 - Systems and methods for workforce optimization and integration: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070206769 - User-defined priority call router: A priority routing process is provided for routing calls received via a call routing system to a live call center agent. Routing is determined through collection of Automated Call Distribution (“ACD”) real-time performance based data and subjective non-ACD data, normalization and weighting of the ACD and non-ACD data through application... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20070206772 - Telephone-receiving call center system: A call center system used for receiving incoming calls in accordance with the present information has a plurality of terminals, an incoming-call control apparatus and an exchange. Each of the terminals is accommodated by the exchange and includes a display unit as well as a telephone unit; an audio recording... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070206773 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing alerts and notifications: A method, system, and computer program product for providing alerts and notifications to Internet Protocol-enabled devices are provided. The method includes receiving an alert message from a content source, retrieving a set of Internet Protocol device addresses associated with accounts subscribing to an alert service, and transmitting the alert message... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070206774 - Apparatus and method for classifying a powered device (pd) in a power source equipment (pse) controller: Power over Ethernet (PoE) communication systems provide power and data communications over the same communications link, where a power source device (PSE) provides DC power (for example, 48 volts DC) to a powered device (PD). The DC power is transmitted simultaneously over the same communications medium with the high speed... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070206775 - Programmable plain old telephone line impedance matching circuits: Programmable plain old telephone line impedance matching circuits that provide an accurate, integrated programmable termination and source impedance for a telephone line interface circuit (SLIC). The accurate matching of this programmable termination and source impedance with the termination impedance of the 2 Wire connection eliminates signal reflections on this connection... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070206776 - Maintaining line voltage during reset: A first clock signal is generated by a first circuit and a second clock signal is generated by an auxiliary clock circuit. A switch controls whether the first clock signal or the second clock signal is provided to a subscriber line integrated circuit (SLIC). The SLIC is operable to generate... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070206778 - Audio communication system: An audio communication system includes a first analog/digital convertor, a second analog/digital convertor, and an echo canceller. The first analog/digital convertor converts an audio signal, which is input from a microphone, to a data signal. The second analog/digital convertor that converts an audio signal, which is input from an auxiliary... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070206777 - Method of controlling an adaptation of a filter: The invention concerns a method of controlling an adaptation of a filter, and a controller and a computer program product to execute this method. The filter is an adaptive finite impulse response (=FIR) filter for modelling an echo path impulse response for echo cancellation in a telecommunications connection between a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070206779 - Echo cancellation: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determine a degree of correlation between a speaker output signal and a microphone input signal and modulate an adaptive gain of an acoustic echo canceller based on the degree of correlation.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/apple

20070206780 - Network termination apparatus: An installation for terminating a network cable of a public communication network at customer premises, the installation comprising termination means for terminating the network cable, and connection means allowing a connection to be made between the public communication network and the customer premises via the termination means, the termination means... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070206781 - Semiconductor device: A technique which reduces the influence of external noise such as crosstalk noise in a semiconductor device to prevent a circuit from malfunctioning. A true signal wire and a bar signal wire which are susceptible to noise and part of an input signal line to a level shifter circuit, and... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070206782 - Handset for mobile phone: The present invention relates to a handset for mobile phone comprising an earpiece, a handle and a mouthpiece; the earpiece and the mouthpiece are disposed on the two sides of the handle and are connected to the handle; one side of the mouthpiece is connected to a connection cord; the... Agent: Mr. Eric Chan

20070206783 - Holding apparatus for an electronic device: The invention relates to a holding apparatus for an electronic device, the holding apparatus including a stationary base body and a support, the support including an approximately rectangular accommodation space having longitudinal sides and transverse sides and at least one interface compatible with an interface of the electronic device. The... Agent: Burr & Brown