Telephonic communications inventions 11/07

20070274463 - Efficient usage of emergency services keys: An emergency services key (e.g., ESQK or ESRK) is guaranteed to be available from a limited size ESQK pool, such that an available ESQK is always selected and associated with an ongoing emergency call with no measurable impact to existing calls, even if all ESQK pool members are marked as... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070274471 - Distortion compensating apparatus and method: The apparatus includes: distortion amount detector which detects the amount of distortion of an output signal of an amplifier; parameter holder which holds a parameter having been set therein, the parameter holder being capable of varying the difference according to the parameter set therein; parameter corrector which corrects the parameter... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070274458 - Automated dsl performance adjustment: The present application discloses an automated digital subscriber line performance control system comprising a computer system including a logic module to evaluate performance of a plurality of DSL lines and to automatically select a set of DSL lines from the plurality of DSL lines, a line profile database responsive to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070274459 - Method, system, and article for informing a telecommunication customer of a future performance estimate for a telecommunication feature: A performance of a telecommunication feature for a telecommunication customer is monitored. Based on the monitored performance, if an estimate of future performance of the telecommunication feature for the telecommunication customer is determined to be unfavorable, the telecommunication customer is informed of same.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070274462 - Method, system and access control function for detecting emergency service: A method for detecting an emergency service, applicable for a system including a UE, an Access Control Function (ACF) and a Routing Control Function (RCF) includes: determining, by an ACF, whether a call is an emergency call after receiving a call signaling from a UE; if the call is an... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070274460 - Providing multiple virtual talk group communication sessions: Providing virtual talk groups to an endpoint includes managing the virtual talk groups, where a virtual talk group comprises one or more members operable to participate in the virtual talk group. One or more overlapping members are identified, where an overlapping member is a member of more than one virtual... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070274461 - Security system with call management functionality: A security system with call management functionality is disclosed and includes a security controller having at least one first interface to at least one user identification device and a second interface to a call management controller. The security controller also includes logic to determine a security status of a user... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070274464 - Multichannel content personalization system and method: A multichannel content personalization system and method provides for customized, automated telephone calls including audio programs, dialogues, and questions to be placed to seniors and other call recipients. Using the system and method, response data is collected from the call recipient during the telephone call. The information collected from the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070274470 - Method and system for transmitting a message to a telephone station: Systems and methods for transmitting a message to a telephone station are disclosed. Generally, a network element analyzes information related to an outgoing call. The network element determines a delay time period based on the analysis of the information related to the outgoing call, and automatically transmits a message to... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070274467 - Methods and apparatus to provide voice control of a dial tone and an audio message in the initial off hook period: Methods and apparatus to provide voice control of dial tone and audio message in a telephone in an initial off-hook period. A telephone system has a telephone with a receiver having an off-hook position. The telephone system provides a user with control of a telephone function. The telephone system includes... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070274465 - Providing unified access to voice messages from disparate systems: Managing voice messages across multiple voicemail systems. A server acts as a gateway and interacts with multiple voicemail systems and with multiple user devices. The server can retrieve voice messages from one voicemail system and transmit the retrieved voice messages to another separate voicemail system without user assistance. The voice... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20070274468 - Retrieval of voicemail: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for permitting a voicemail customer to customize his/her playback of voicemail messages. The voicemail system stores a menu, specified by the customer, for regulating the order in which received calls are to be played back. Advantageously, the customer can specify an order... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20070274469 - Systems and methods for providing direct-to-voicemail functionality: By entering a feature access code prior to placing a call, a calling party can have a call terminated directly to the voicemail of the called party. In one embodiment, entering the feature access code, followed by the called party's directory number, will cause the call to be routed directly... Agent: Jonathan M. Lindsay

20070274466 - Voicemail screening and call retrieval: Handling an incoming call from a caller to a user includes prompting a caller to record a message to the user and sending a special command to a user communication device indicting that the incoming call is available for screening and retrieving. In response to the user indicating a desire... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070274472 - Method for phone solicitations: A solicitation method comprises the steps of: providing a WAN accessible client prospects database, wherein the database includes an encrypted lead telephone number; installing a solicitation software program into a user computer system wherein the computer system has an automatic phone dialup feature and a WAN accessing feature; interconnecting the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070274473 - Method and system for interfacing systems unified messaging with legacy systems located behind corporate firewalls: A system and method for interfacing unified message processing systems with legacy voice mail, e-mail and facsimile systems, located behind corporate firewalls. The system includes a unified message server, a proxy interface and a message protocol convertor. The proxy interface is configured to access the legacy system in response to... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20070274474 - System and method for unified messaging in inter/intranet telephony: A network telephony system is provided which enables unified messaging services. The system generally includes at least one user agent operatively coupled to a data network and a signalling server operatively coupled to the data network. The user agents are telephony endpoints, such as standalone Internet telephony appliances or personal... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070274475 - Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. A message is associated with a first party, with a second party, and with at least one third party. A query is received that identifies the first party and the second party. The message associated with the first party and... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070274476 - Toll-free directory assistance with automatic selection of an advertisement from a category: The current invention is a system for providing telephone directory assistance service in which a telephone user calls to the system and the system will, based on the requested number or type of service, hear a recorded advertisement. The advertisements are selected from a databank, which may include any number... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070274477 - Frequency correction channel burst detector in a gsm/edge communication system: A FCCH Burst detector includes a tone detection filter centered at 67.7 KHz, a tone rejection filter centered at −67.7 KHz, moving average power calculation for the two filter outputs, and a detection logic. A FCCH burst is detected when the ratio of the moving average power of the tone... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070274478 - Security system and method for limiting access to premises: A remote station for a security system, a method of providing security and a security system incorporating at least one remote station. In one embodiment, the remote station includes: (1) a query unit configured to generate a query to a requestor regarding a reason for an attempt by said requestor... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20070274479 - Method and telecommunications system for transmitting a facsimile message: A method and system for transmitting a facsimile message uses a public-switched telecommunications network, the public-switched telecommunication network having a messaging platform capable of storing a plurality of facsimile messages. The initiation of a telephone call to a destination is detected, the content of the call including the facsimile message.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070274481 - Method for implementing account charging and account charging system: A method for realizing charging includes setting up mapping relation between service attribute and charging rule, acquiring service attribute of the to-be-charged service when it is demanded to charge the to-be-charged service, acquiring charging rule of the to-be-charged service according to service attribute of the to-be-charged service, and charging the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070274482 - Utilizing one telephone account to complete calls made from a different account: Telephone calls made from a first account, such as a wireless or wireline account, are completed by bridging the call into a second telephone account, such as a different wireless or wireline account, from which the destination is ultimately reached. Benefits associated with the second telephone account from which the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070274483 - System and method for providing telecommunication services free of charge: A system and method for providing telecommunication services free of charge to a customer are provided. In one embodiment, a customer receives free of charge telecommunication services, which may include telephone service, voice mail service, facsimile service, or other services, in exchange for agreeing to listen to one or more... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20070274484 - System for providing a call center for response to advertisements over a medium: A system for directing call from a user to a desired advertiser based upon a code in an advertisement. The system receives a call from a user. The user then inputs a code or password from the advertisement. The call is then forwarded to a desired advertiser based upon the... Agent: Sierra Patent Group, Ltd.

20070274480 - Method and system for paying prepaid communications credit: A method and system for prepaying credits to a user account for communications services is provided. A system receives an origination number and a code. The code corresponds to a predefined payment amount for prepaid credit. The system credits an account associated with the origination number with the predefined payment... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070274485 - Network-independent ringback feature: Audible and/or visible ringback signals are provided to a calling party by wired or wireless communication equipment in a local region associated with a called party, and not by the wide-area network(s) via which the calling party communicates with the called party. The non-network ringback signals are provided after a... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070274486 - Call-control features based on television programming events: Described herein are systems and methods for providing call-control features based on information about the programming events. The call-control features are provided to control, handle, or otherwise manage incoming telephone calls. The programming events may be television programming events such as broadcast, pay-per-view, or video-on-demand shows, movies, or the like.... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070274488 - Communication device auto negotiate reconnect: The embodiments contemplate a negotiation and reconnection method between two devices for use when an original call connection is dropped. In order to allow a reconnected call to be easily made without multiple calls from each user, a negotiation between the two devices is made during the original call, assigning... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070274490 - Method and device for processing session: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for processing session, which includes: obtaining a session request for requesting a session between a calling user and a called user, wherein the session request contains first charging information and is from a first communication unit; obtaining second charging information from... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070274491 - Methods and systems for automated prepaid service routing: Methods and systems for automatically routing a long distance call placed by a subscriber to a prepaid service provider. Methods are discussed for allowing the prepaid subscriber to directly dial a called party's long distance telephone number, and then routing the placed call to a prepaid service. The subscriber, in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070274487 - Telephone method and apparatus: A telephone and telephone answering apparatus and method are described for using secondary information embedded in audio passages included in phone calls. The telephone and telephone answering device monitors received calls to automatically detect for the presence of embedded secondary information. Some embodiments merely receive, automatically monitor for the presence... Agent: Irving Tsai

20070274489 - System for providing anonymous presence information, method thereof and program storage medium storing program thereof: An application server receives presence information with anonymous identification information of a presentity client. The application server transmits a message to an information distribution proxy. The message is addressed not to the identification information of the presentity client, but to the anonymous identification information of the presentity client. The information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070274492 - Coordinated invitations to a conference call: A technique is disclosed that enables one or more telecommunications endpoints to subscribe to a conferencing system and to be notified of one or more conferencing events. As part of the conferencing system of the illustrative embodiment, a conference invitation server maintains information on all of the conferences that are... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070274493 - Method, system, and article for placing a telephone call to a previously-called party: Upon receiving a service code from a calling party, a list of parties previously called by the calling party is retrieved. An audio message is generated based on the list, and communicated to the calling party. A dialed input indicating a selected party from the list is received from the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070274494 - Computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein telephone-call connection program, telephone-call connection method, and telephone-call connection apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a telephone-call connection program for controlling telephone calling with the schedule of the other party of a call and a call importance level therefor being taken into account. A connection-request receiving block extracts a transmission-source telephone number and a transmission-destination telephone number and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070274495 - Systems and methods for expert communications: Methods and systems for scheduling a communication between parties are presented. A system includes a wait-list module configured to determine and display information to a first party attempting to communicate with a second party. The system includes a wait-time prediction module configured to determine, based on the information determined by... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20070274496 - Method and system for multimodal communication using a phone number: One aspect of the present invention features a method of initiating communication over a communication network. The communication method includes receiving a request for published content made through a first communication mode selected from a multimodal communication access interface to the communication network and associated with a user phone number,... Agent: Wiesner & Associates

20070274497 - Call waiting using external notification and presence detection: Alerting an intended recipient of a phone call includes identifying an account based on a phone call received from a caller and accessing configuration data related to the account. The configuration data is used to identify an identity associated with the account. One or more external online service provider systems... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070274499 - Intelligent ring, tone or announcement searching, pickup and forwarding in a mixed voip and telephony network: Telephony circuitry, within calling or recipient telephony devices, supports the exchange of communications between the telephony devices. These telephony devices may include a screen and a user input device. User input interface circuitry receives input signals from the user input device. Display interface circuitry couples to the screen. Communication interface... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070274498 - Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating a billing statement from detailed usage file records: Methods, systems, and computer programs for constructing a billing statement from detailed usage file (DUF) records received from an Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC). A master file contains routing information associating each of a plurality of telephone numbering plan addresses plus additional telephone number digits (NPA-NXX) with a corresponding local... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070274500 - Method for processing intelligent service logics: The present invention discloses a method for processing an intelligent service logic. The method comprises the steps of: setting a function ID for each characteristic of an intelligent service respectively; setting options which can be inputted by subscribers and setting mapping between the options and the function IDs; after receiving... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070274501 - Signal processing at a telecommunications endpoint: A method and an apparatus are disclosed that enable the offloading of some of the signal processing that has often been centralized in a telecommunications network, to one or more telecommunications endpoints. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a packet-based telecommunications endpoint that comprises processing and... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20070274504 - Customized sip routing to cross firewalls: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for providing customization to routing of messages in a system where routing is based on stored addresses, such as, for example, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) system, to pass through a firewall. In one embodiment, a method of providing customized routing of messages... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070274505 - Systems and methods for data synchronization in a customer center: Systems and methods for performing agent data synchronization in a customer center having a plurality of agents. In this regard, a representative method comprises: storing agent data on a customer center network; sending the agent data to a plurality of workforce applications that are coupled to the customer center network,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070274506 - Distributed call center system and method for volunteer mobilization: A system and method to facilitate effective telephone calling campaigns that may be conducted by geographically dispersed individuals using inexpensive communications systems, such as the Internet and a basic telephone service. The system manages lists of pre-qualified prospects divided up among a group of volunteers, including providing the volunteers with... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070274503 - Feeble ring tones: A system and method for permitting an initiator of a communication session request and a recipient of the communication session request to quickly negotiate the beginning of a communication session, such as a phone call, wherein the negotiation is performed based on the expressed current need and the current availability... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070274502 - System and method for providing a baseline for quality metrics in a contact center: A computer-implemented system and method for assisting managers of a contact center is provided. The monitoring of agent communications is performed automatically and the communications are assigned to a group of supervisors for scoring. The scores assigned to the communications are then received and programmatically evaluated against predetermined criteria to... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070274507 - Auto attendant telephone system: An auto attendant system in which a plurality of individually scheduled auto attendants can either receive calls on direct lines from outside a company or on links from other auto attendants in the company, without having to store redundant menu choices in more than one location. When a caller selects... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070274508 - System and method of delivering dsl services: A system and method for delivering digital subscriber line (DSL) service to a subscriber from a remote terminal of a telephone network. Included is a first route for delivering a telephone signal to the subscriber, and a second route for passing the telephone signal through a DSL system before delivering... Agent: Karen A. Fitzsimmons Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070274509 - Sound volume control apparatus: A sound volume control apparatus connecting to a telephone signal line and an external sound equipment to tune down the sound volume of the external sound equipment so that telephone users can do telephone conversation without being interfered by the original excessive sound volume of the external sound equipment. After... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070274510 - Phone number recognition: Method and system for recognising a numeric or alphanumeric sequence of characters in a document, the sequence conforming to predetermined rules and representing user identifiers for identifying users in a communication system include identifying a country of origin of the document, recalling rules relating to the format of the sequence... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070274511 - Handheld electronic device including automatic mobile phone number management, and associated method: A method of updating information included in a handheld device user's contact entry included in a global address list wherein the device stores information of a first type, such as a mobile phone, SMS or MMS number or a PIN. The method includes determining whether the information of a first... Agent: Philip E. Levy Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070274512 - Dialling phone numbers: Method and apparatus for effecting a voice communication between user terminals connected via a communication network include displaying a menu of country options to a user and receiving a number in local form. Formatting rules are recalled for a destination country selected by the user from the country options. A... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070274513 - Method and system for estimating data rate of a local loop: A computer system comprises a memory and a processor. The memory provides an empirical model for estimating data rates of local loops having one or more bridged taps. The processor uses the empirical model to estimate and output a data rate of a local loop that includes a bridged tap.... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070274514 - Method and apparatus for acoustic echo cancellation in a communication system providing tty/tdd service: A method and apparatus are disclosed for canceling acoustic echo generated during transmission of text information in a communication system supporting a TTY/TDD service. When a mobile-to-land call is established between a mobile subscriber and a PSTN subscriber, a decoder notifies an encoder of detection of TTY/TDD text in a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070274515 - Port identification system and method: A cable port identification system is disclosed that provides identification facilities for communication, data, other cabling and/or wires and the connectors to which they are coupled found in a multi-port station. In some implementations the identification facilities can include label retention and protection and may also include label magnification.... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

20070274516 - Mode dial mechanism: A model dial mechanism comprises a circuit board provided with a mode layout circuit, several dome elements, and a mode dial button. The dome elements are provided at intervals on the circuit board to correspond to the mode layout circuit. The mode dial button is rotatably provided on the circuit... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070274517 - Headset communication unit: A headset communication unit includes a housing and a microphone arm pivotally connected to the housing. The housing has a first pivotal portion that has a pivotal end and connects a supporting pillar in direction of the pivotal end. The microphone arm has a microphone and an elastic slice member... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070269020 - System and method for mitigating audible acknowledgement volume in a vehicle security system: A system, method, and computer-usable medium for mitigating audible acknowledgement volume in a vehicle security system. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes measuring an amplitude of a valid signal, in response to receiving the valid signal; in response to determining the amplitude of the valid signal, comparing the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070269021 - Method of bonding terminal: The tip end of the bonding tip is defined between first and second edges. A first inclined surface gets remoter from a first terminal at a position remoter from the first edge. The second inclined surface likewise gets remoter from the first terminal at a position remoter from the second... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070269022 - Master/slave transceiver power back-off: An apparatus and method of setting power back-off of a master transceiver and a slave transceiver is disclosed. The method includes the master transceiver determining a master power back-off, and the slave transceiver determining a slave power back-off based on signals received from the master transceiver, and based on the... Agent: Teranetics Patent Dept

20070269023 - Crisis communication system and method utilizing group-based message distribution: A system and method of crisis communication includes a plurality of crisis communication points (CCPs) located in geographic dispersed areas unlikely to all be affected by a single disaster, and which are arranged to store messages left by individuals affected by a crisis for retrieval at any time by interested... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070269024 - Systems and methods for routing emergency communications: In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a remote device configured to receive an emergency communication from a subscriber device, a Public-Switched Telephone Network (“PSTN”) switch, and a remote access device connected to the remote device and the PSTN switch. The remote device is configured to forward the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070269025 - Managing customer access to a communication recorded by a provider in association with a transaction: A method, system, and program are provided for managing customer access to a communication recorded by a provider in association with a transaction between the customer and the provider. A communication system for the provider detects a selection to record a communication between a customer and a provider in association... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20070269026 - Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification information including total call control for all received calls: All calls terminating to a customer's directory number are intercepted. If caller identification information can be presented, the call is forwarded to a service node for disposition. The service node reconfigures signaling information of the call so that the call is not intercepted, then forwards the call to the subscriber's... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070269027 - Method and apparatus to validate a subscriber line: A method is described to verify the identity of a user. The method, in one example embodiment, comprises obtaining automatic number identification (ANI) data or billing telephone number (BTN) data associated with a subscriber line of a telecommunications network; obtaining identification data associated with a subscriber, said identification data being... Agent: Andre L. Marais Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20070269028 - Method of providing caller identification for calls placed over an internet: The invention uses the advanced intelligent network to provide caller identification for calls placed over the internet (24). A long distance call placed with an internet carrier results in the originating SSP (14) forwarding the call to an originating POP (22) for the internet carrier. The caller ID information is... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070269029 - Providing network services to a network agent: In a communications network, data that establishes a network agent's entitlement to network services is stored within the network agent and not within the network. Network services are provided to the network agent by storing network service authorization information and network service usage allowance information within a network agent, which... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070269030 - Multimedia caller id a system and method for presenting media at the time of an incoming call: The Multimedia Caller ID is a system and method for the delivery and presentation of media such as; images, animation and video to a conversation device (landline or wireless phone) at the time of an incoming call (ring/vibrate). This method includes the ability to present the caller ID information together... Agent: Meir Shani

20070269031 - Method and apparatus for distributing advertisements to callers during telephone calls: The present invention embodiments receive remote access to a telephone line of an organization and download information to calling parties. The organizations providing remote access earn revenue based on various criteria. A present invention embodiment places callers to the organization telephone system into a conference call for transference to a... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070269032 - Information processing apparatus and connection control method: In an information processing apparatus, a connection control method performs a connection control of communication terminals through a network. A call is received from a calling one of communication terminals. The reception of the call is notified to a setting unit which sets the connection control data. The connection control... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070269033 - Three-way call detection using steganography: Three-way call detection is an important component of correctional facility telephone equipment because it helps restrict calling access by certain persons to certain restricted telephone numbers. Various three-way call detection methods exist, but all of these implementations suffer from one major limitation—the detection accuracy is not as high as is... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20070269034 - Time difference notification in a cell phone system: A system and method is provided for notifying a calling party that the called party's cell phone is located in a time zone different from the time zone of the calling party or that there is a time difference between the calling party's local time and the local time of... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070269035 - Call block disabler: A dial tone generator outputs a particular dial tone to a party to indicate that a call block feature is enabled for the party. The call block feature is disabled for the party in response to a number of incoming calls for the party being greater than or equal to... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070269036 - Cross-protocol universal call identifier: A method is provided for operating a directory assistance system having a plurality of different network elements operating on different protocols. The method includes receiving, at a first network element, operating on a first operating protocol, an incoming directory assistance call from a caller. A universal call identifier data is... Agent: Sofer & Haroun, L.L.P.

20070269037 - System for automatically managing server user operation sessions: A system enables clinicians to use naturally spoken voice commands from a small, wearable, wireless badge (or other portable device) to trigger events including, application session transfer, wireless communications (such as voice calls) and control of electronic devices. A system for managing user operation sessions on multiple servers includes an... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070269038 - Dynamic routing of customer telephone contacts in real time: A process for dynamic routing of customer contacts to call recipients includes establishing accounts in a call recipient contact system for a plurality of call recipients. The plurality of call recipients are permitted to bid against one another for providing goods and/or services to a customer. A contact list is... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20070269039 - Method and apparatus for active reduction of speakerphone singing: In a speakerphone device identification of signals (i.e., voice input or speaker output) in a process for reducing acoustic feedback, in a communication device, is accomplished by adding a signature noise (i.e., an identification mark) to output signals radiated by the speaker to enable these signals to be separated from... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263795 - System and method for repeating an announcement that provides a new telephone number associated with a disconnected telephone number: A method for processing a telephone call that includes playing a message and replaying the message based on an input. The played message includes instructions for replaying the message, and the method replays the message if an input is received that corresponds with the instructions.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070263798 - System and methodology for peer-to-peer voice communication employing a pushed interactive multimedia announcement: A system, method and corresponding software application installed on communication devices of the system for communicating a media-based call alert from a calling-party device to a called-party device prior to establishing the voice call therebetween. The media-based call alert is played on the called-party device prior to (or concurrent with)... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.

20070263803 - Communication device and method for filtering incoming calls thereof: A communication device for filtering incoming calls includes a phone number database, a rule database, a filter module, and a rule operator module. The phone number database is used for storing a plurality of phone numbers. The rule database is used for storing a plurality of rules that include a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070263804 - Telephone with ability to communicate with mobile phones: The present invention relates to a PSTN telephone, which is adapted to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) and is capable of communicating with a mobile phone embedded with a wireless module by a wireless manner, which comprises: a power source, capable of providing power to the telephone; a microprocessor,... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070263776 - Apparatus and method for measuring loop insertion loss single-endedly: The system and method of determining insertion loss of a telephone line under test (LUT) determines a first insertion loss as a function of plurality of different equivalent circuit values of the LUT determined at a plurality of different frequencies of a first set of discrete frequencies. A running standard... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070263777 - Apparatus and method for measuring loop insertion loss single-endedly: The system and method of determining insertion loss of a telephone line under test (LUT) determines a first insertion loss as a function of plurality of different equivalent circuit values of the LUT determined at a plurality of different frequencies of a first set of discrete frequencies. A running standard... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070263775 - Distributed system and method for diagnosing network problems: The present invention provides a distributed system and method for diagnosing problems in a signal at an endpoint in a network. The distributed system comprises a quality of service monitor located at the endpoint and a system manager located generally remote from the endpoint. The quality of service monitor includes... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070263774 - Line loss tester: An apparatus and method for testing integrity of a wired communication link includes receiving a plurality of signals, sent by at least one transmitter over the wired communications link, at corresponding multiple receivers. The signals have corresponding frequencies within a frequency range of the wired communication link, such that the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070263773 - Methods and apparatus for automated testing of a device through a command line interface: A method for automated testing of a device (e.g., a router, switch, mobile terminal, barcode reader, or the like) includes creating a metafile, establishing a network connection to the device, parsing the metafile to determine a device command and an expected result, issuing the device command to the command line... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070263778 - Subscriber line maintenance apparatus and methods: Subscriber line maintenance apparatus and methods are disclosed. A maintenance operation is performed on a subscriber line in a communication system by an embedded test unit. The test unit limits an effect of the maintenance operation on communication signals that are transferred on the subscriber line during the maintenance operation.... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070263779 - Device and method for simulating a telephonic condition: A device for simulating a telephonic condition has a generator for producing a simulation signal that can simulate an audible signal produced on a telephone for signifying a second incoming call. The generator has an output adapted to send the simulation signal over a telephone line. A manual control is... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070263781 - Control of a calling party's telephone service features by a call taker at a public safety answering point: A method of administering an emergency call service in a public switched telephone network (PSTN) (60) includes: receiving a call at a switching facility (70) from an end user terminal (EUT) (52) served by the facility (70), the facility (70) providing the EUT (52) access to a telephone service feature;... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070263780 - Emergency-response information system and method thereof: Disclosed is an emergency-response information system for providing emergency-response information for an individual in a fast, easy, inexpensive, and reliable manner that is readily accessible to a first responder, and the individual's friends, and family members. The emergency-response information system comprises a user computer accessible by a first responder; a... Agent: Michael Lentini

20070263782 - Apparatus and method of managing pots lines in a pon network: An apparatus or corresponding method of managing Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines in a Passive Optical Network (PON) to prevent an alarm system from generating an alarm during a software upgrade or maintenance of an Optical Network Terminal (ONT), Optical Line Terminal (OLT), or PON while maintaining the effectiveness... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070263792 - Adding an identified caller's other devices to a voice mail system: A method and system for registering external telephone numbers and associating such external telephone numbers with an extension in a voice mail system. When a call is received from a telephone which is not registered in the called systems database, after the caller has identified an extension and entered an... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070263784 - Automated voice answering system correlated to user calendar to provide telephone voice responses based upon user schedule: A telephone answering system associated with a telephone receiving terminal, either wired or mobile wireless, including an implementation for predetermining a set of different types of incoming telephone calls; the type of calls may be based on who the caller is and/or based upon the identifier of the incoming call.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070263785 - Distributed voice over internet protocol recording: Included are embodiments of systems and methods for recording data related to a communication. One exemplary embodiment, among others includes receiving data related to a communication from a communications device, recording at least a portion of the data related to the communication, determining a time of reduced network activity and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070263794 - Method and apparatus for recording calls: A method and apparatus for providing a service for recording calls on packet networks such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Service over Internet Protocol (SoIP) networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, the service provider enables the customers or subscribers of the service to send a request to activate... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263790 - Method and system for transferring audio content to a telephone-switching system: A method and system for transferring audio content to a telephone-switching system is provided. The telephone-switching system receives the audio content from a source. Thereafter, the telephone-switching system authenticates the source. The telephone-switching system also authenticates the audio content. Thereafter, the telephone-switching system stores the audio content in a file... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070263791 - Selectable greeting messages: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to provide selectable greetings or responses to a request to initiate a communication. In one embodiment, a method of providing selectable greetings in response to a request to initiate a communication can comprise receiving the request to initiate a communication from an initiating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070263783 - System, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing trading communications: Apparatus, method and system are provided for recording and reproducing audio channel signals. A processor captures the audio channel signals communicated through communication channels over a network. A circular buffer configured to store the audio channel signals captured by the processor, such that when the end of the circular buffer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263788 - Systems and methods for capturing communication signals [32-bit or 128-bit addresses]: Systems and methods for capturing communication signals are provided. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: installing a first type of tapping devices to obtain 32-bit communication signals; installing a recording system that is coupled to the first type of tapping devices; receiving the 32-bit communication signals from the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070263787 - Systems and methods for endpoint recording using a conference bridge: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communication. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving an incoming call from a calling phone; routing the incoming call to a called phone in a contact center; transmitting voice communications associated with the incoming call via the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070263786 - Systems and methods for endpoint recording using phones: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for recording media communication. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: receiving an incoming call from a calling phone; routing the incoming call to a called phone in a contact center; transmitting voice communications associated with the incoming call via the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070263793 - Techniques for marking and manipulating voice message segments through a telephone user interface: In one embodiment, techniques for manipulating a voice message using a telephone user interface are provided. The telephone user interface receives a mark begin segment command from a telephonic device through a voice modality. The mark begin segment command indicates a beginning point for a voice message segment in the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070263789 - Voice message recall: A system and method for canceling a message sent to a recipient prior to retrieval by the recipient. A telephone call is received by a network from a calling party who desires to cancel a message left for a recipient through an earlier call from the calling party to the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070263797 - Dial pulse detection method and detector: A method apparatus and system are provided for detecting pulses in a received signal wherein the spacing between the pulses may alternate in an expected manner. Generally, the method exploits intrinsic characteristics in the ensemble pulses, by performing correlation between pulses in a data stream representative of the received signal.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20070263796 - Method and apparatus to provide data to an interactive voice response (ivr) system: A method and system is described to provide data to an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System. The method may comprise accessing an image communicated from a voice-communication device and communicating the image to an optical character recognition (OCR) module. Thereafter, data extracted from the image by the OCR module may... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070263799 - Toll-free directory assistance using standard industrial classification codes: The current invention is a system for providing telephone directory assistance service in which a telephone user calls to the system and the system will, based on the requested number or type of service, hear a recorded advertisement. The advertisements are selected from a databank, which may include any number... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070263801 - Method for addressing a device in behalf of establishing a communication path between a telephony network and a data network: A method is disclosed for addressing from a first device (1) in a telephony domain a second device (8) in a data communication domain for setting up a communication path between the first device (1) and the second device (8). Via a point of presence a connection can be established... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20070263800 - Methods, systems, and products for processing responses in prompting systems: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing responses in a prompting system. A response is received to a prompt and compared to a set of conditions for interpreting the response. If the response is not interpretable, then an alternative presentation of the prompt is obtained. A supplemental prompt is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070263802 - Call set-up systems: A call set-up system sets up a call, which could be a voice call, between, for example, terminals P and V using call agents Q, S and U through a plurality of packet switched networks 1, 2 which are interconnected by network address translation (NAT) devices R,T. The messages to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20070263805 - Method to alert participant on a conference call: A method, system and computer program product for enhancing a telephone device to alert a user of the device when his/her presence is requested by another participant to a telecommunication occurring between the user on the device and other participants on other devices. The device is programmed with voice recognition... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070263806 - Enhanced addressing for fax recipients: A rich, robust fax addressing experience is provided for users. In some embodiments, multiple different ways of addressing a fax and related functionality are exposed to a user and work seamlessly together to give a compelling addressing experience. In some embodiments, a fax application can resolve recipient names and/or numbers.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070263809 - Automated rating and removal of offensive ring-back tones from a specialized ring-back tone service: In an embodiment an apparatus may have a dictionary having a plurality of words; and an evaluation engine operatively coupled to the dictionary, and operatively coupled to a repository having a plurality of ring-back tones corresponding to the songs; wherein the evaluation engine implements rating, flagging and filtering out of... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070263808 - System and method for providing telephone call notification and management in a network environment: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to receive an incoming call message via a data interface upon activation of a trigger established with a voice communication network and activated when the voice communication network receives an incoming call to a destination identified by a pre-determined... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070263807 - Telephone group identification ring: A telephone caller identification system where potential callers can be assigned to call-in groups, each call-in group having a particular ring. When a member of a particular call-in group calls, the telephone presents the ring associated with that call-in group. A caller not assigned to any call-in group causes the... Agent: Clifford Kraft

20070263810 - System and method for providing incoming call distribution: A method and system of routing incoming call is disclosed. An incoming call is received at a call center of a language interpretation provider. The incoming call is made by a customer requesting language interpretation service. The customer can be for example a business entity or an individual. A level... Agent: Patent Ingenuity, PC

20070263811 - Telephone instrument used in conjunction with computer: When comprising a telephone and a computer in an integrated environment by connecting them together in the manner of interlink or junction via wired or wireless data/audio connection interface (RS232, USB, Firewire), the functions of the computer (such as unique processing power, internet integration and database capabilities) can be integrated... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070263812 - Systems and methods for account establishment and transaction management: Disclosed are systems and methods which provide techniques providing account setup, management and transaction authorization determinations in real-time using transaction interrupt messaging. Embodiments preferably take into consideration the quality of one or more parties to the transaction and the means by which charges may be rendered to them when making... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070263813 - Communication device and method for avoiding deadlock of a terminal device: A communication device (30) for avoiding deadlock of a terminal device, includes a transceiver module (300), a timer module (310), and a network module (320). The transceiver module receives a communication termination signal from a local exchange (LE) and generates a timing signal. The timer module receives the timing signal... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070263818 - Relay apparatus, relay method, relay program, and communication system: A relay apparatus for relaying communication between a plurality of wireless terminals and a wired network includes a priority data recording part for recording communication identification data and required bandwidth data, a priority control part for relaying, by priority, the communication recorded in the priority data recording part, a request... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070263817 - Automated intelligent network service configuration: An intelligent network (20) provides an ability for a user (22) to customize the use of intelligent network services in an automated fashion. A service control point (32) controls operation of the intelligent network services and automatically controls how a service switch point (28) or a home location register (74)... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070263816 - Selective voice communication among multiple services: When a voice call is made between two users (Caller and Callee), both of which may have access to multiple voice communication services, the connection is made automatically by the communication equipment through a selectable communication service, based upon characteristics of connection. Those characteristics may include the services available to... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070263815 - System and method for communication provision: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in communication provision. A user might, for example, be able to indicate a desire to receive live calls from one or more parties. A party wishing to place a live call to interested users might, for example, be able to place a call to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070263814 - System and method for employing state information to enhance network functionality: A system and method for enabling an enhanced camp-on feature for a communications device. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first mechanism for providing information pertaining to why a first user of a first communications device is unable to be contacted. A second mechanism enables a second user... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070263819 - System and method for anonymous telephone communication: The present invention comprises a system and method for masking the identity of a user of a calling telephone. Preferably an information processor is provided to receive over a public switched telephone network a telephone call from the calling telephone. The information processor receives from the user of the calling... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070263820 - Printing workflow services: A computer workfiow services manager includes a data input coupled to receive unprocessed data from a customer, a data output coupled to transmit processed data to the customer, a control input coupled to receive instructions from a workfiow scheduler associated with a grid services broker and a grid service adapters... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070263825 - Accessing a calendar server to facilitate initiation of a scheduled call: A conference control server accesses a calendar server in order to identify calls scheduled by an organizer and to facilitate initiation of the calls at the scheduled time. A method for integrating the calendar server and the conference control server includes identifying a plurality of resources, which each have a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070263826 - Electronic conference assistance method, and information terminal device in electronic conference system: There is provided an information terminal device in an electronic conference system, including a reception unit that receives information on a state of attendance of participants in a conference, who are present in a plurality of conference holding spaces; a disadvantageous degree calculation processor that calculates a disadvantageous degree indicating... Agent: Gauthier & Connors

20070263823 - Automatic participant placement in conferencing: Techniques for positioning participants of a conference call in a three dimensional (3D) audio space are described. Aspects of a system for positioning include a client component that extracts speech frames of a currently speaking participant of a conference call from a transmission signal. A speech analysis component determines a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070263821 - Method and apparatus for enhancing speaker selection: A method and apparatus to provide speaker selection in a multi-party conference call is described. The method may comprise processing a speaker queue for at least one new speaker and monitoring when a number of active speakers is less than a predetermined number of active speakers. When less than the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070263824 - Network resource optimization in a video conference: A conferencing system includes a mixer operable to process audio and video packets received from a plurality of endpoint devices, and to transmit a processed audio/video stream back to the endpoint devices. A server connects with the mixer and the endpoint devices. The server is operable to send a first... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20070263822 - Request routing mechanism for distributed multi-participant service application servers in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem network: A multi-participant service creator Application Server embeds routing information within a service identifier provided to enable invitation of users to a multi-participant service such as conference calling or push-to-talk communication. A multi- participant service routing function associated with the Serving Call Session Control Function receiving a request to join the... Agent: Docket Clerk

20070263827 - System and method of receiving a call having an identified or unidentified number and an identified or unidentified name: A system and method is described for managing a phone call to a phone device of a personal digital assistant, the phone call being transmitted from a device in a mobile phone network. In one example, the method involves determining a status of a radio switch of the personal digital... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20070263828 - Transferring a communications exchange: Methods and systems for transferring a communications exchange using a mobile handset are described. A radio frequency (RF) signal is transmitted from a mobile handset to a base station to provide a communications exchange. The communications exchange exists between the mobile handset and a first communications device. The mobile handset... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070263829 - Call hold signaling: One or more elements in a telecommunications network (10, 10′ and 10″) receive a call hold-initiating message when a first party places a second party to the call on hold, and in doing so, triggers a call hold event in the network. In response to the call hold-initiating message, the... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20070263831 - Method, apparatus and system for client-based distributed pbx for enterprise telephony: A device includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The processor operates to execute a public branch exchange (PBX) processes in the memory that interact together to provide a distributed PBX platform.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070263830 - System and method for transitioning a voice session in progress over a communication network into a voice and data session: A system for effecting transition of a private branch exchange (PBX) system-hosted voice only telephone session in progress into a voice session optionally enhanced with a data collaboration channel hosted by a conference bridge includes a call escalation system (CES) application for determining call state of the voice session to... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20070263832 - Time-division multiplexing exchange system: A time-division multiplexing (TDM) exchange system enables the use of one pair of communication wires by a plurality of communication terminal devices at the same time to thereby reduce hardware and labor costs, and increase the economic effect of the exchange. The TDM exchange system includes a microprocessor, a customized... Agent: Jun-hong Chen

20070263833 - Method and system for network denial case generation: A method for network denial case generation includes receiving a plurality of third-party carrier call records associated with a plurality of subscriber telematics units at a call center wherein each call record includes a call status, determining at least one call record having a failure condition based on the call... Agent: Anthony Luke Simon General Motors Corporation

20070263834 - Execution of interactive voice response test cases: A network independent computer-implemented method of executing test cases on interactive voice response (IVR) systems is provided. A test driver and a call controller on a test driver virtual machine configure one or more IVR virtual machines to participate in a test case. User simulators on each IVR virtual machine... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070263835 - Telephone system and tetephone exchange apparatus: According to one embodiment, a telephone exchange apparatus includes a receiver which receives communication establishment requests transmitted from the SIP terminals via the packet communication network, the communication establishment requests is defied by the SIP; and a controller which determines whether or not service IDs to specify arbitrary service information... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070263837 - Methods and systems for setting up a call center: Methods according to the exemplary embodiments are used to set up call centers. For example, such methods can include the steps of determining call types to be handled by the call center and a number of call agents to be supported, identifying a list of software applications to be provided... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20070263836 - Online service system capable of predicting waiting time: The present invention discloses an online service system capable of predicting waiting time. The service system serves the users through a queuing mode and an electronic whiteboard mode. The queuing mode comprises a queuing-user counting unit for counting number of the user entering the queuing mode, a service channel counting... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070263838 - Method and system for informing customer service agent of details of user's interaction with voice-based knowledge retrieval system: The present invention describes a method and system for informing a customer service agent of the details of a service user's interaction with a voice-based knowledge retrieval system. More particularly the invention is directed to a method of informing a customer service agent of details of a user's interaction with... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20070263839 - Pre-caching mechanism for optimized business data retrieval for cti sub-systems: A method, system and computer-usable medium for optimizing retrieval of customer data needed to handle a call are presented. The method includes the steps of receiving a call at a data center; initiating a query for a business data related to the call; creating a key that identifies the business... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070263840 - Computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein agent training support program, and agent training support method and agent training support apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein agent training program in which when each agent has been performing an answer, agent identifier, and enquiry contents and contents of the answer are stored in a storage device. An enquiry pattern is extracted from enquiry contents. Respective agents' answers are evaluated, for... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070263841 - System and method for email notification of unanswered telephone calls: A method of processing a telephone call that includes creating an email notification of the telephone call if the telephone call to a telephone number registered to receive email notifications is determined unanswered and sending the email notification based on information associated with the registered telephone number.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070263842 - Enhanced tone detector including adaptive multi-bandpass filter for tone detection and enhancement: An enhanced tone detector including an adaptive multi-bandpass filter, a tone detector and a filter control unit. The adaptive multi-bandpass filter has a signal input receiving an input signal, a signal output providing a filtered signal, and at least one control input for receiving at least one control signal. The... Agent: The Law Offices Of Gary R. Stanford

20070263843 - Communication identifier list configuration: A device is provided that may initiate a communication with a communication device; log the communications initiated with respective communication devices; determine a likelihood that any one of the communication devices will be a next communication device with which communication will be initiated based on the logged information; and order,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20070263844 - Telecommunication capable of silent operation and the related method thereof: Disclosed is a telecommunication system including a main telecommunication apparatus, at least one slave telecommunication apparatus and a virtual signal circuit. The slave telecommunication apparatus is coupled to the main telecommunication apparatus. The virtual signal circuit, which is coupled to the main telecommunication apparatus and the slave telecommunication apparatus, is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070263845 - Speakerphone with downfiring speaker and directional microphones: A speakerphone having improved echo cancellation and sound output includes at least one directional microphone having at least one axis of sensitivity and at least one zone of insensitivity, and a speaker disposed in the zone of insensitivity of the microphone to radiate sound away from the microphone and towards... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.

20070263846 - Voice-identification-based signal processing for multiple-talker applications: The audio signals associated with different co-located groups of talkers in a teleconference are detected (e.g., by comparing the voiceprint for the current talker group with stored voiceprints corresponding to all of the co-located teleconference participants) and processed using different and appropriate automatic gain control (AGC) levels, where each group... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20070263847 - Environmental noise reduction and cancellation for a cellular telephone communication device: A system and method for reducing or entirely canceling background or environmental noise from a voice transmission from a communications device. A communications device, such as a cellular telephone or cordless telephone, is configured with an environmental noise counterbalanced (correction) signal generator that is connected between a microphone and a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070263851 - Echo detection and delay estimation using a pattern recognition approach and cepstral correlation: A method, apparatus, system, and program, for evaluating a call communicated between communicating devices through at least one communication path. The method comprises segmenting, into first segments, at least one first communication signal traveling from a first one of the communicating devices to a second one of the communicating devices... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263848 - Echo detection and delay estimation using a pattern recognition approach and cepstral correlation: A method, apparatus, system, and program, for evaluating communication signals exchanged between communicating devices through at least one communication path. The method comprises performing a similarity function or distance function to determine if the communication signals include at least one substantially similar pattern, and reporting an existence of a predetermined... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070263849 - Integration of a microphone array with acoustic echo cancellation and center clipping: Center clipping is applied with acoustic echo suppression in a two-way voice communication system to reduce a microphone signal to the background noise floor when speech is not present. For integration with a microphone array, the center clipping processing determines whether speech is present based on estimates of the overall... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070263850 - Integration of a microphone array with acoustic echo cancellation and residual echo suppression: Acoustic echo cancellation, residual echo suppression and sound-source localization/microphone array processes are combined in a two-way voice communication system that uses a microphone array to capture local speech. The processes can be configured according to various alternative architectures and enhancements made to the processes to avoid the adverse effects of... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070263852 - Method and apparatus for providing power to a network interface device via telephone lines: A method, apparatus, and system in which one embodiment includes a network interface device (NID) located outside a building and a power supply unit located inside the building. The power supply unit has an electrical isolation component and one or more ports that couple via a first phone line and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070263854 - Auto-swap call box device and method for automatically swapping line connection: An auto-swap call box device for VoIP telephony and a method of automatically swapping line connection, in which the control module of the call box controls a subscriber line interface circuit module, a line interface module, and a switch module to sequentially detect the electrical signal of a first phone... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070263853 - System and method of enhanced caller-id display using a personal address book: In one particular embodiment, a method includes receiving at a set-top box a call signal including a caller identifier from a network, where the caller identifier includes a calling number and a billing name associated with the calling number. An alias (or display name) associated with the calling number is... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070263856 - Wireless access point with temperature control system: An access point device and access point system support wireless and/or wired communications. The access point includes temperature control functionality that is adapted to control/moderate the temperature within an access point. The temperature control functionality may operate to control the transmit power, the throughput or other operating parameters associated with... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20070263855 - Electrical receptacle with open corner region: An electrical receptacle with an open corner region facilitates electrical connection between an electrical device positioned in the receptacle and a conduit, cable or like wiring that passes through the open corner region. The open corner region is defined by a side wall, top face and rear wall of the... Agent: Mccarter & English , LLP Stamford Office

20070263857 - Interference canceller tap sharing in a communications transceiver: A novel mechanism for sharing filter taps across a plurality of interference cancellers. Each interference canceller may be directed to impairment, such as Ethernet impairments, including Ethernet 1000Base-T impairments. Various interference impairments include echo cancellation, NEXT cancellation and/or other interference detection or cancellation, etc. The hardware requirements of the interference... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070263858 - Use-your-own-headset telephone: A telephone, or modification of an existing telephone allowing users to make or/and receive calls without directly touching the telephone, thereby preventing spread of germs between the users, such as a public telephone, telephone located on a reception desk, lobby, and telephone normally used by one user but with a... Agent: Andrei Kemp

20070258567 - Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. Caller identification information associated with a call to a called number is received. A profile database is queried for a profile associated with the called number. The profile is queried for the caller identification information. When the profile contains the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070258568 - Customer service system & process: A customer service process for allocating servers to customers comprises receiving a service request (40) that comprises data identifying a requested service grade (44), retrieving from a database a set of selection values (46) for each of a plurality of servers and a set of weighting values (56), wherein the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070258569 - System and method for providing customized dynamic images in electronic mail: A system and method providing a personal electronic communication incorporates the use of image tags which designate a desired dynamic imaging server and a corresponding image chain to dynamically create a customized image that is associated with the personal electronic communication. Upon receipt of the personal electronic communication, the personal... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070258570 - Using services provided via a communication system: The present invention relates to a service portal configured to receive information relating to a number of services provided via a communication network, to represent online the information to a user of user equipment End to provide the user equipment, in response to a selection from the user, with a... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070258571 - Conference system: There is proposed a conference speech station for a conference system, which has an audio unit for changing audio signals into first signals, a signal processing unit further converts the first signals into second signals and an interface sends the second signals to an external network unit. A conference speech... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070258572 - Voice response apparatus and method of providing automated voice responses with silent prompting: A voice response unit (VRU) includes a silent prompt feature in the form of an intentional delay inserted after a message is given to a caller, during which delay the caller may invoke alternative processing or interrupt current processing. If appropriate alternative or interrupt commands are not received during the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070258573 - System and method of routing telephone calls: A method of routing telephone calls is disclosed that includes receiving Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) packets at an integrated access device (IAD) from a VoIP remote worker feature server. The IAD communicates with a first private branch exchange (PBX) located at a first location. The VoIP packets are related... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070258574 - Remote management of products and services: The present integrated system—method and remote management devices for services and products that are mainly provided by public utility companies, is primarily based on monitoring the consumption of the product. Both the organisation as well as the clients are provided with information (by means of specialised software) regarding the improved... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070258575 - Number portability for an ims network: An apparatus and method for number portability for an IMS network. In one example the method may have the steps of: processing all calls with E.164 numbers in a BGCF (Breakout Gateway Control Function); executing digit analysis on a respective E.164 number in the BGCF; and querying, by the BGCF,... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070258576 - Method and system for assigning tasks to workers: A method and system for assigning tasks can receive requested tasks, keep a requested-task queue, keep one or more worker statuses associated with respective workers, and assign the requested tasks from the requested-task queue to selected ones of the workers. In one embodiment, the requested tasks are telephone calls received... Agent: At&t Corp.

20070258577 - Method and system for telephone wait user interface selection: In the method of the present invention, a customer of a service provider would be placed in