Telephonic communications inventions 05/08

20080123821 - Barge-in capability for emergency call returns: A barge-in capability for emergency call returns is disclosed. The barge-in capability allows a PSAP to connect to an original calling party in instances where the party party is engaged in another call at the time of the call return attempt. Barge-in may be implemented by setting up a 3-way... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 2f-190

20080123822 - System and method for providing voice messaging with dynamic content: A system and method for creating and distributing messages including dynamic content is provided. In one form, an entity provides a plurality of content segments for use in building a dynamic message. The entity also provides a listing of end users to receive a message and information associated with the... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080123823 - Method and system for detecting voice mail spam: The method further includes categorizing one or more voice mail messages, if the information compared between the incoming message and one or more other messages in the voice mail system is within some configured criteria, e.g., a configurable percentage. Alternatively, a particular voice mail message is categorized as spam if... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080123824 - Method and apparatus for bulletin board messaging in a voice mail system: The present invention provides an option to record messages that can be geared to specific audiences, using PIN-restricted access as needed. The present invention provides a method and apparatus way for subscribers to record a number (more than one) of personalized messages or greetings geared towards specific callers or audiences... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080123825 - Determining whether to provide authentication credentials based on call-establishment delay: A method of authenticating an authorized entity via the telephone network is disclosed. A telephone call is placed from a telecommunications terminal to a server that comprises a valuable resource and that only provides the resource to authorized entities. When the terminal has already demonstrated its authorization to the server,... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080123826 - Elevator monitoring system: In an elevator monitoring system, an operation monitoring apparatus receives operation condition data from a group supervisory control device so as to display operation conditions of elevators on a monitor. The operation monitoring apparatus and the interphone base device can telephone-communicate with each other. The operation monitoring apparatus detects that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080123827 - Traffic evaluation system: A system including a first client data collection device, a host server, and a host user interface. The first client data collection device can store traffic data relating to a first call market of the first client data collection device. The host server can receive the traffic data, parse the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080123828 - Financial card activation method and system: A sponsor purchases a prepaid card that can be transmitted to an intended user with increased security. Using a prepaid card dispenser, the sponsor elects an amount for the prepaid card and is prompted for at least one telephone number at which a server platform should contact the sponsor when... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080123829 - Prioritising phonebook numbers in a telephone: A circuit for a telephone, having a data store for storing user data including telephone numbers and associated data, and sorting means (46) for sorting the user data for display. The sorting means sorts the user data according to frequency of use (e.g. frequency of calls received and frequency of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080123830 - Association table for multiple directory numbers: A system that associates a particular called number with a particular telephone number on an MDN line. An association table is established which associates particular called numbers with particular numbers on the MDN line. Thereafter calls from the MDN line to any number in the association table results in the... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080123831 - Systems and methods for call routing: Systems and methods for call routing are shown and described. The method can include receiving, at a site external to a mobile telephone network, an incoming telephone call via a first fixed line telephone number, signaling a mobile telephone network to initiate a call to the site external to the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080123832 - Communication assistance system and method: A communication assistance system is provided for accessing information corresponding to a plurality of subscribers. This system is comprised of a telephone switch for receiving calls from a plurality of requesters, a call center for routing each of said received calls to an operator terminal, and a first database configured... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080123833 - Telephone system and call controlling method therefor: According to one embodiment, there is provided a telephone system including a plurality of exchanges interconnecting a private network each exchange including a plurality of communicating terminals and giving a local identifier to a call relative to each communication terminal belonging to each exchange; a call control application unit configured... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080123834 - Automatic foreign exchange consolidation: This is a method for a LEC or IXC to provide the geographically appropriate calling party telephone number to the called party with such method being transparent to the calling party.... Agent: Laurence C. Rubin

20080123835 - System and method for providing toll free or reduced fee international calling: A system includes a local exchange carrier that operates to receive telephone calls from carriers, a platform that operates to receive the telephone calls from the local exchange carrier and selected international carriers to receive the telephone calls from the platform. The selected international carriers are selected so that termination... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080123836 - Systems and methods for providing telephony services to an enterprise: Systems and methods for providing telephony services to an enterprise are shown and described. The method can include executing an application on a computing device external a mobile telephone network and interfacing the computing device to the mobile telephone network. The application provides PBX services to the enterprise. The method... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080123837 - Private branch exchange with self-referencing extensions: A telecommunications system is disclosed that enables a user to pair a desk set that is an extension of a private-branch exchange with a cell phone that is accessible via the Public Switched Telephone Network. One feature of the telecommunications system enables a call that is directed to the user's... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080123839 - Peer to peer contact center: A peer to peer contact center is provided by individual user terminals registering with a server which acts as a proxy to receive contacts from callers to the contact center. The server redirects the calls to individual terminals according to simple rules without subjecting the calls to any contact center... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080123838 - Call routing from first to second dialog of interactive voice response system: A customer service call system that provides both manual (assisted by a service representative) and automated problem solving dialogs. A routing process determines which dialog is appropriate for incoming calls. The routing process determines a probability that the automated system will resolve the problem and also determines an expected hold... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080123840 - Method and system for answer-mode identification of a telephony device: A method and an apparatus for the identification of the mode of a telephony device in a network are provided. A call initiation signal is received from a mode-identifying telephony device. The call initiation signal is used to communicate with a mode-selecting telephony device. Thereafter, the mode at the mode-selecting... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080118038 - Media gateway testing device and method: A media gateway testing device (10) is used for testing a media gateway. The media gateway testing device includes at least one calling module, an instruction module (161), a receiving module (162), a determining module (164), and a message producing module (165). The at least one calling module simulates at... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080118040 - Method for realizing ring back tone in communication system: A method for realizing ring back tone in communication system, enabling that the calling user can only hear the ring back tone triggered by the primary called user no matter whether the call is forwarded or how it is forwarded. In the present invention, service control unit sets a mark... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080118041 - Secure access to restricted resource: A system may generate an access number, provide the access number to a user via a telephone call, and provide the access number to an authentication server. The system may regulate access by the user to a restricted resource based on the access number provided to the user and the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080118042 - Systems and methods for detecting a call anomaly using biometric identification: Embodiments of the present invention are directed generally to use of biometric identification during a call for detecting an anomaly occurring in the call, such as a change in the parties participating on the call. Communication between parties of a call is monitored and biometric identification is performed using the... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080118043 - Call control apparatus and method for controlling call control apparatus: A call control method of a call control apparatus that establishes a call connection between an originating terminal and a receiving terminal in a network in which a plurality of call control apparatuses are provided is provided. The method includes detecting whether, in the call control apparatus, call connection processing... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080118039 - Enhanced 911 notification for internet enabled alarm system: The present invention allows an alarm monitoring service to ally with a PSAP provider to allow our customers to direct connect to the 911 center responsible for their home, but no matter where the customer calls from. When an alarm monitoring company or middleware provider's automatic notification function calls the... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080118044 - Exempting certain incoming callers from screening by a privacy system: A privacy system determines in connection with a call from a particular calling party whether a name identification thereof is available, and if so allows the call to be put through to the called party with the name identification. The called party thus can review the name identification of the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080118045 - Systems and methods for visitation terminal user identification: Systems and methods which collect information regarding users of controlled environment visitation terminals for identification of one or more parties to a visitation conversation are shown. Identifying information may be provided by various means, such as entry of a PIN, RFID, biometrics, etcetera. Embodiments provide a closed circuit visitation communication... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080118046 - Authorization to place calls by remote users: A system includes a first interface to connect with a network, and a second interface to connect with a telephone device of an enterprise. A unit controls a connection between the first and second interfaces for an outgoing call from the telephone device to a remote telephone device connected to... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080118047 - Persistence of interrupted calls: A system for recovering an unintentionally interrupted call in a telephony network includes an interrupted call data capturer and a re-connector. The interrupted call data capturer is deployable in the telephony network and configured to capture data pertaining to an interruption of the call from the telephony network. The re-connector... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080118048 - Directory service for locating stale acquaintances: A directory service encourages subscribers to store old or out-of-date contact information. When someone wishes to get in touch with another person with whom they no longer have current or complete contact information, they may query the online directory service with one or more out-of-date or incomplete contact fields (e.g.,... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080118049 - Local-smart-routing enabled auto dialer: A telephone connection is routed to either a local calling service provider's network or a designated carrier's network. Each digit of a telephone number dialed are received and stored. While each digit is being received, whether the telephone number is inside a predetermined calling area is determined based on the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080118050 - Method and system for distributing outbound telephone calls: A method and system is provided for the distribution of outbound telephone calls. This method and system includes dialing devices receiving call records and providing telephone calls to one or more agents. Interfaced with the dialing device is a distribution module including pools and queues. The distribution module places the... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080118051 - System and method for providing a multi-modal communications infrastructure for automated call center operation: A system and method for providing a multi-modal communications infrastructure for automated call center operation is provided. A multi-modal call is accepted from a caller through a telephony interface, which accommodates multi-modal calls including at least one of verbal speech and text messaging. Incoming speech in the multi-modal call is... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080118052 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for rule-based direction of customer service calls: Directing customer service calls based upon one or more rules incorporating customer information, network status information, service status information, or various combinations thereof. An incoming service call, and a customer identifier for the incoming service call are received. The customer identifier is used to obtain customer information. Network status information... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080118053 - Speak-up: The present invention is directed to a table that is constructed to receive an audio system and an audio system that is intended to be incorporated within a tabletop. The audio system comprises a housing and an audio column having a speaker wherein the audio column is capable of being... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080118054 - Telephone system and method: An improved telephone system and method of managing telephone calls. In one embodiment, a telephone system includes a speakerphone and a handset. A plurality of telephone lines or channels is available for conducting each of a corresponding plurality of telephone calls. In one instance, a first call may be routed... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20080118055 - Echo processing method and device: In an echo processing method and device which can detect an accurate echo section without effects of a far end signal, an echo delay, and a reduction of an echo cancellation amount, a signal of a specified frequency band is generated in conformity with a near end signal, and the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080118056 - Telematics device with tdd ability: A telematics device (10) for an automotive vehicle has an interface capability with a TDD (36) to provide abilities to transmit and receive TDD data only calls, Voice Carry Over calls and Hearing Carry Over calls.... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080118057 - Hinge apparatus for a portable terminal and portable terminal having the same: A hinge apparatus for connecting a first housing and a second housing of a portable terminal is provided. The hinge apparatus includes a hinge housing and a damping member. The hinge housing is connected to the second housing and has an internal wall formed with one or more guide grooves... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080118058 - Splitter with active transient suppression circuit: A splitter has input terminals for interfacing with a subscriber line and output terminals for interfacing with a telephonic device. The splitter includes a low pass filter and a transient suppression circuit. The low pass filter is coupled to the input terminals. The transient suppression circuit is coupled between the... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080112542 - Testing and quality assurance of interactive voice response (ivr) applications: A system receives a condition for an interactive voice response (IVR) application, automatically tests the IVR application based on the received condition, and generates a test result based on the automatic testing of the IVR application.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080112544 - Emergency call service system in ip network and method thereof: An emergency call service system in an Internet Protocol (IP) network and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a policy control server, an emergency call agent, a call agent, and a network manager. The policy control server generates position information of a user terminal by mapping an IP... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080112546 - Media independent out-of-office manager: A method is disclosed that enables a user to set their “away” or auto-reply messages for two or more communications services (e.g., e-mail, voice mail, etc.) in one action. Separate actions are required in the prior art to change each outgoing message for every distinct communication service. The illustrative embodiment... Agent: Demont & Breyer, Llc

20080112543 - Method for implementing online maintenance in communication network: A method of implementing online maintenance in communication network, includes: recording, in any communication device of the communication network, communication data going through the communication device itself when the communication device has detected online a maintenance request; collecting, by an online maintenance server set in the communication network, online the... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080112545 - Method, system and apparatus for recording voice data in half-duplex communication: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for recording voice data in a half-duplex communication. The system includes a voice data recording node and a data storing node; the voice data recording node generates a voice data record according to voice data received from a server and managing the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080112547 - Method and apparatus for message management in portable communication system: Provided is a method and apparatus for altering a stored message into a single unified message and controlling a capacity of a message box in a portable communication system. The method includes checking an available capacity of a message box; and when the available capacity is less than a critical... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080112549 - Method and system for processing billing of including qos information: A method and system for processing billing of including QoS information are provided. In the method, a call is initiated by transmitting/receiving packets directly to/from an opponent terminal after signaling with the opponent terminal using a session initiation protocol through the signaling server. Then, QoS of the call is measured... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20080112548 - Unrestricted calling circle for telephone service: Subscribers of a telephone service can define a calling circle, which includes a group of other telephone subscribers with whom the subscriber receives preferential billing rates. The members of the calling circle may include customers of a telephone service provider other than the subscriber's telephone service provider.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080112550 - Method and apparatus for authorizing a calling card telephone call: Method and apparatus for authorizing a calling card telephone call are described. In one example, a telephone calling card includes a planar body having a memory system, an input circuit, a controller, and a display. The memory system is configured to store key code information. The input circuit is configured... Agent: Moser Ip Law Group 2th Floor

20080112552 - Caller id messaging telecommunications services: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for caller identification messaging are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a calling party uses a Caller ID Messaging Device that supplants the incoming calling line identification (ICLID) signal with a Caller ID Messaging Signal and transmits the Caller ID Messaging Signal to a destination communications address.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080112553 - Method and system for verifying incoming telephone numbers: A system for automatically verifying an incoming telephone number. In response to detecting an incoming communication, a determination is made as to whether a telephone number associated with the incoming communication matches one of a plurality of telephone numbers in a storage unit. In response to determining that the telephone... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080112551 - Secured communication via location awareness: A method and system for collecting and verifying the location information of a calling party and a device of the calling party is provided. More specifically, a method and system is provided for determining whether the identity of the calling party can be confirmed, via evaluating location information, with an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, Pllc

20080112554 - Unified messaging/call routing configuration using palmtop computer: A method of routing telephone calls, emails and faxes using a palmtop computer. Using a date book forming a part of a personal information manager application of a palmtop computer, the user enters an appointment into the date book. Such an appointment has a starting and an ending time. The... Agent: Berry & Associates P.c.

20080112555 - Call answering: A method, phone, and system for answering phone calls in such a manner as to limit or otherwise ameliorate interruptions to a called party and others in an environment of the called party. The answering optionally including silently answering the phone call with a message instead of requiring the called... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080112556 - Methods of emulating remote telephones at a client device using profiles of the remote telephones and related systems and computer program products: A method of emulating a remote telephone at a client device may include accepting identification of the remote telephone at the client device and transmitting a request for a profile of the remote telephone. The profile of the remote telephone may be received, and after receiving the profile, the client... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080112557 - Method and system for analyzing contact studies: A method, system and computer-readable medium for analyzing contact studies for a call service center is presented. The method includes the steps of: acquiring data instances of a Collector tool from all persons monitoring contacts at a call service center during a given study period; retrieving a study design from... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080112558 - Unified call centre system for multiple service providers: In accordance with a first aspect of the invention there is a unified call centre system for multiple service providers comprising at least one server; and at least one database in communication with the at least one server. A service provider executes software stored on the at least one server... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080107243 - Method and apparatus for handling emergency calls: A method and apparatus for obtaining location information for subscribers connected to an IP access network (300), in order to enable supply of such location information in connection with emergency calls directed to a multimedia service network (302). A request is received (3:1) at the multimedia service network from a... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080107244 - System and method for voice message call screening: A mail delivery service that allows users of a networked call processing system to listen to messages that are being left to their mailbox in real time. Improvements applied to this invention allow full control of both the message and the call that is leaving the message to more effectively... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20080107245 - On hold content selection: A message is received that a call has been made to a destination. It is determined that the destination is not available. A menu of options is provided for receiving content while the destination is not available. A selection of one of the menu options is received. Content is provided... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080107247 - Emergency recording during voip session: A method and apparatus are provided for recording a call between a client and an agent through an automatic contact distributor. The method includes the steps of the automatic contact distributor receiving a recording request from the agent, the automatic contact distributor activating a recording program, the recording program sniffing... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080107248 - Telephonic payment processing method for online services: According to an embodiment, access to an online resource is enabled by associating a telephony number with a network resource that is made available at a network location, where network resource is protected so as to be inaccessible without access being provided for users individually. A particular user may be... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080107249 - Apparatus and method of controlling t-communication convergence service in wired-wireless convergence network: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling a T-communication convergence service in a wired-wireless convergence network, and more particularly, a method and apparatus for providing a function of controlling the T-communication convergence service, in which a communication service and a broadcasting service are converged, without depending on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080107242 - Line status detection apparatus, communication apparatus, and line status detection method: A first communication apparatus 100 transmits a pilot signal which was generated by a pilot signal generation section 14, at predetermined timing, and detects an unbalance component of a transmission line 300 at the time of pilot signal transmission in an unbalance component detection section 13, and controls a transmission... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080107246 - System and method for providing user input information to multiple independent concurrent applications: In a system for providing user input information to multiple independent, concurrent applications, the applications send subscription messages to a device receiving user input such as a telephone receiving key presses from a keypad. Each subscription message identifies a pattern of user input that the application is to be notified... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080107250 - Telephone communications: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a telecommunication system, of establishing a connection between a calling terminal and a called terminal, the called terminal having an associated presence status, the connection establishment being initiated by a connection establishment request sent by the... Agent: Intellectual Property Administration

20080107251 - Method for using ain to deliver caller id to text/alpha-numeric pagers as well as other wireless devices, for calls delivered to landline networks: A remote call notification system for incoming calls to a wireline telecommunications device. The system includes a switch, a service control point, an intelligent server, and a monitoring module all in communication with each other. The remote call notification is transmitted to a remote communication device such as a PC,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080107252 - Method and apparatus for communicating with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number: A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080107253 - Methods and systems for speed dial: An embodiment of a method of speed dial performed in an electronic apparatus comprising a keypad comprising multiple buttons and a display unit is provided. The method comprises the following steps. A numeric sequence is displayed on the display unit for further edit when detecting that a button on the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080107254 - Telephone number area code processor: This invention provides an apparatus and method for processing telephone numbers that assists telephone subscribers in reaching the desired destination when the area code is unknown or has changed. The invention can be integrated into a telephone unit, implemented as a stand-alone device connected to the subscriber's telephone line (including... Agent: Covington & Burling, LLP Attn: Patent Docketing

20080107255 - Proactive system and method for monitoring and guidance of call center agent: System for enhancing existing quality monitoring tools for monitoring and guiding agent performance within call centers, each of which provided with a plurality of agent terminals, a plurality of agent audio interfaces, and a plurality of software applications. The proposed system comprises a module for quality evaluation of agents skills... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.c.

20080107256 - Virtual contact center: A method, system and computer-readable medium for providing a Virtual Contact Center (VCC) to call-in customers is presented. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes the steps of: screening a plurality of service agents according to agent qualifications needed by a Virtual Contact Center (VCC); developing a network of pre-qualified... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080107257 - Pillow telephone: This product makes it easier to have long conversation while in bed without having to hold the phone up to your ear for long periods of time or having a head phone clamp tightly around or stuck in your ear. Your audio is clear as ever and you don't even... Agent: Odwin Matthews

20080107258 - Input/output end point control for integrated telecommunications- network systems (voip): Disclosed are systems and methods that enable expanded functionality for call control monitoring and control of external electrical/electromechanical devices using a telecommunication system.... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20080101550 - Method and apparatus for line testing: A method of testing a communication line includes applying a voltage as a function of time on the communication line and measuring at least a first current and a second current flowing via the communication line. The second current is measured at a different point in time than the first... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080101553 - Logging call data for failed emergency calls: A method of logging call data for failed emergency calls includes: receiving from a calling party an emergency call that is to be routed to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) (40) over a telecommunications network (20); determining if the received emergency call is connected to the PSAP (40); and,... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080101551 - Method and system for determining physical location of emergency service callers on a packet switched network: Pluggable communication modules, e.g. SFP, XFP, XENPAK, on a service provider's packet switched network will include network monitoring capability, e.g. Intelligent Pluggable Modules. The Intelligent Pluggable Modules are configured to detect emergency calls. When an emergency call is detected, the module notifies a software application of the detected call, including... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080101552 - Systems and methods for location management and emergency support for a voice over internet protocol device: Example systems and methods to manage location information for emergency services support of an internet protocol (“IP”) communication device are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves determining a geographic location change status associated with the IP device. A message is then forwarded to the IP device based on the geographic... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080101554 - Method and device for generating voice/text/image commercial information ringback tone during communication wait: Voice/text/image commercial information generating method and device during a communication is on wait. The method includes the steps of: checking a telephone call, connecting with a commercial information ringback tone generating system/device at an originating or a receiving communication system when the call is detected, beginning to transmit a commercial... Agent: Liu & Liu

20080101556 - Apparatus and method for reporting speech recognition failures: Provided are an apparatus and method for reporting speech recognition failures. The method includes detecting pure speech data from input speech data and outputting the detected pure speech data; checking at least one speech recognition failure for the pure speech data; and ascertaining speech recognition failure reasons from a check-result... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080101557 - Method and system for notifying a telephone user of an audio problem: A method and apparatus is provided for notifying a telephone speaker engaged in a call or conference that the audio quality being received by one or more listeners is not acceptable. The notice is provided before the call or conference has ended, so that effective action can be taken to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101558 - Messaging service in a peer to peer type telecommunications network: This messaging system is for use in a peer to peer network including at least one depositary peer (PX, PR) adapted to store a message in one or more portions and to send a message notifying the completion of the storage of that portion to at least one superpeer (SPX)... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080101563 - Selectable voice prompts: In an embodiment of selectable prompts, selectable identifiers can be selected to describe a commodity via parsed voice prompts that correspond to selected ones of the selectable identifiers. A description of the commodity can then be generated from the parsed voice prompts that correspond to the selected ones of the... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20080101564 - Communication system: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a first terminal connected to an IP network and communicates with a second terminal through the IP network and a server apparatus including a controller that controls a communication between the first and second terminals. The first terminal includes a transmitter that... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101566 - Method to play vendor videos: A method includes identifying that the destination phone number of a call made by a communications device is to a vendor and playing a video clip associated with said vendor on said communications device during said call. Another method includes storing videos associated with a multiplicity of vendors, receiving a... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080101555 - Methods for voice activated dialing: Methods for routing a call based on voice activated dialing (VAD). A VAD device module may respond to a VAD instruction, or to a call received with a VAD instruction with a corresponding call destination number obtained from a personal VAD directory. If the personal VAD directory fails to include... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080101559 - Call management via television: A telephone call management system and method are disclosed, allowing for call review where a voice mail message being recorded for a specific telephone may be played on a television associated therewith during the time it is being recorded. Optionally, the call may further be retrieved and rerouted to the... Agent: Lawson & Weitzen, LLP

20080101562 - Communication system and voice mail apparatus: According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a voice mail apparatus and a communication terminal which is connected to the voice mail apparatus through a data transmission path, wherein the communication terminal includes a creator which creates e-mail data including the voice files and configuration files necessary to set... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101561 - Messenger notification system and method using synchronization server: Provided are messenger notification system and method using a synchronization server. The system includes a messenger service system controlling transmission of instant messages of messenger users and monitoring and transmitting messenger users' status change information; at least one external service system monitoring whether a predetermined event occurs and creating a... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080101560 - Telephone system: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a plurality of terminal devices which are connected to a packet communication network to realize voice calls with one another via the communication network, an attribute management function which manages attribute information for each user of the terminal devices, a message processing... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101565 - Automated healthcare management functions: The present invention involves value-added applications (or middleware) that integrates and adds value to existing call system and medical software packages by leveraging the assets of telecommunications manager software and medical records software with further specialized software. The EXTENSION system provides a modular set of medical workflow based applications that... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080101567 - Method and system for call reverse: A method (10) and system (200, 400, or 500) of call reverse can include initiating (12) a call by an originating party (204) to a terminating party (208), comparing (14) rate plans, and automatically reversing (26) the call if a rate plan for the terminating party is currently more economical... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080101568 - Accounting in a transit network: An accounting function in a network between originating and terminating networks is disclosed. A transit network node is provided with an appropriate indication regarding its role in inter-operator accounting, for example if it should act as an intermediary node or not. A transit network node configured to function in an... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080101569 - Prepaid information services: A prepaid information services card is provided for use in both wireline and wireless communications networks without the cardholder having to be a subscriber to a telecommunications service provider. The prepaid information services card may be used to access directory assistance and enhanced directory assistance information services such as weather... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080101570 - Systems and methods for providing per call measurement data in an ims network: Systems and methods for providing per call data measurement in an IMS network are provided. An IMS network adapted to provide per call measurement data comprises a plurality of network nodes serving a call for a subscriber adapted to monitor network performance to generate call measurement data for the call.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080101571 - Call routing method: A call processing method is disclosed. A first station initiates a call to a second station. Call information associated with the initiated call is evaluated by comparing the call information with information in a fraud database. Completion of the call is prevented if the evaluation results in a finding of... Agent: Mr. S. H. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080101573 - Call processing based on electronic calendar information: The present invention allows incoming calls to be processed based on calendar information obtained from an electronic calendar of a called party. When an incoming call intended for the called party is received, a service node may retrieve the calendar information for the called party and process the call based... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080101572 - Method and system for verifying telephone numbers across service providers: A system for verifying and updating a telephone number across service providers. After dialing a telephone number, a contact name and a timestamp in a central repository is compared with a contact name and a timestamp in a storage device. If the contact name in the central repository does not... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101577 - Multi-fidelity conferencing bridge: Embodiments according to the present invention allow multiple parties equipped with telecommunications devices (endpoint devices) of similar or differing audio capabilities to join in a conference call and enjoy the fidelity associated with their equipment. Rather than operating with the frequency and fidelity limits of traditional telecommunications circuits (for example,... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080101575 - Participant prioritization on telephone conference calls: A computer implemented method and a computer program product for prioritizing a participant in a teleconference are provided. Participants in a teleconference are prioritized in order to manage the participants currently speaking and participants wanting to interrupt. A participant has an individual or a group priority level associated with the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080101574 - Source selection for conference bridges: The present invention provides an audio source selection process for a conference bridge. The conference bridge receives multiple audio sources and selects at least one of the audio sources based on the relative signal levels associated with the audio signal at each of the audio sources. The audio signals associated... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20080101576 - Tag interrogator and microphone array for identifying a person speaking in a room: A conferencing room has conferencing equipment which identifies a person speaking, among a group of people in the conferencing room, to remote participants in a conference call. The conferencing equipment includes a plurality of unique tags, each fixed proximate to a seating position for a person in the conferencing room.... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080101578 - Method and system for guardian approval of communications: A method (10) and system (20, 30, or 200) of guardian approval of communications where a guardian phone serves as a master phone (24) to at least one slave phone (26 or 28) can include the steps of forwarding (2) an unknown incoming call to a slave phone to the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080101579 - Telephone system, master device, and terminal accommodation method: According to one embodiment, a telephone system including a first communication terminal configured to perform a telephone communication by use of proper address information, a master device which accommodates the first communication terminal via an extension telephone network, and a second communication terminal configured to perform a telephone communication by... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101580 - Methods, systems, and products for internet call waiting messaging: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for providing Internet Call Waiting (ICW) Messaging Services. In an embodiment, a calling party places an incoming call to a called telephone number having an active ICW session and data connection. A telecommunications system allows a calling party to communicate an ICW message to... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080101581 - Methods and apparatus to provide contact management with directory assistance: Methods and an apparatus for providing contact management with directory assistance. An example method obtains a directory assistance service record associated with a user, wherein the directory assistance service record includes at least a first data object associated with a directory listing and a second data object associated with the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080101582 - Systems and methods for implementing split numbering plan area codes in an ims network: Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a split numbering plan area code in an IMS network. The IMS network comprises a subscriber server adapted to store a new phone number including a new area code for a subscriber assigned as a result of the split numbering plan area code.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080101583 - Internet telephone system ensuring communication quality and path setting method: An LSP control unit checks whether or not there is a label switching path of a hundred to thousand times of a band necessary for transferring a VoIP packet between a pair of edge label switch routers in response to notification from a VoIP packet control unit. When there is... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080101584 - Method of providing context aware announcements: A method and system of providing context aware announcements is provided. Context call handling rules are applied to determine a current context of an incoming call. At least one context aware announcement is provided for providing information associated the current context and call information.... Agent: Inter-tel, Inc.

20080101585 - Functionalities for local number portability in a telecommunications network: According to various embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for local number portability in a telecommunication network are disclosed. An embodiment of a method includes submitting a local number portability (LNP) order for the TN directly to a first telecommunications carrier that the TN is to be transferred... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080101586 - Server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a memory which stores a second management table which associates telephone IDs of external telephone terminals to be connected to the external communication network with user IDs of external data terminals to be connected to the external communication network, and a controller... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080101587 - Termination for a line card in a telecommunication system: A system of terminating signals in a telecommunication system is disclosed. In one embodiment a line card comprises functional circuitry, line card connector contacts and a termination resistor. The functional circuitry is used to interface first type ports with second type ports. The line card connector contacts are adapted to... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20080101588 - System and method of audible caller identification via a multimedia device: A method and system is disclosed that includes receiving an incoming call including caller identification information at an input responsive to a network. An audio alert and display information associated with the incoming call are sent to a multimedia device.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080101589 - Audio output using multiple speakers: An electronic device comprises an earpiece speaker, a loudspeaker, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive a wireless telephony audio signal, to separate the audio signal into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having higher frequency components than the second portion, wherein... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080101590 - Digital dc feed for a subscriber line interface circuit: A subscriber line interface circuit apparatus includes a controller for controlling a DC feed of a subscriber loop in accordance with a first DC feed curve defined by a first set of points in response to sensed subscriber loop signals. A stability compensator is coupled to the subscriber loop. The... Agent: Davis & Associates

20080101592 - Line driver with active termination: A line driver comprises a driving amplifier receiving an input of the line driver, a current sense resistor connected between the driving amplifier output and the line driver output, and a feedback amplifier sensing the voltage across the current sense resistor and providing a corresponding feedback voltage that is proportional... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080101591 - System and method for selecting a profile for a digital subscriber line: A method for selecting a profile for a digital subscriber line is disclosed, the method including collecting code violation data for a plurality of digital subscriber lines, identifying a group of problem lines in the plurality of digital subscriber lines, modeling estimated code violations for each of a group profiles... Agent: G. Michael Roebuck, PC

20080101593 - Circuit method and system for transmitting information: Disclosed is a method and circuit for echo suppression or cancellation. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a circuit including a Noise-Enhanced-Receiving-Direction unit and Narrow-Band Remover unit or units.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080101594 - Keypad having keys with angled engagement surfaces, and associated handheld electronic device: An improved keypad for a handheld electronic device has keys wherein the engagement surface thereof is oriented oblique to the actuation axis of the key. The oblique arrangement of the engagement surfaces visually and tactually distinguishes one key from another, which facilitates their incorporation into various handheld electronic devices with... Agent: Brij K. Agarwal Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC