Telephonic communications inventions 07/08

20080181368 - System diagnostics: A method of providing diagnostic functionality in a SIP enabled telephony system includes a plurality of SIP enabled functional elements each provided with a diagnostics agent, the method including transmitting a SIP diagnostics request from an originator diagnostics agent of a first element to a diagnostics agent of a second... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080181369 - Evaluation device and evaluation system: An evaluation device 20 comprises a circuit element comprising respective pairs of inputs and outputs including several capacitances 25a-25c and resistances 26a-26d, one end of each being connected to both ends of the capacitances 25a-25c, wherein a resistance value of a signal input side is generally equal to that of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080181370 - Telephone system and server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses generate call information events specifying a plurality of telephone terminals to which call connections are made, a server apparatus which is connected to the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses through the transmission paths, and a management... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080181371 - Systems and methods for producing build calls: Techniques are disclosed for making an automated telephone call more interactive and intelligent by saving responses gathered from a previous call and using that information to build more personal and engaging subsequent interactions. An initial telephone call can be designed with data needs in mind. Relevant responses from the initial... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080181373 - Call messaging system: Call messaging techniques are disclosed that allow a called party and a calling party to communicate without interfering with an on-going call in which the called party is participating, and enable the called party to communicate with the calling party even after the call has left the called party's endpoint.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080181372 - Pausing call processing to enable the playback of information: Methods, computer readable media, and system embodiments are provided for call routing in communication networks. One method embodiment includes initiating a call processing process by receiving a call for a called party, sending a message to a home location register to initiate a call termination, arming a trigger for transferring... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181374 - Provision of private information to voice telephone call parties: A system and method for providing private information content to a voice telephone call parties prior to, during or following a call. In one aspect, the system and method may be implemented in a voice telephone communication apparatus that is adapted to hold information content on behalf of the call... Agent: Walter W. Duft Law Offices Of Walter W. Duft

20080181375 - Method and apparatus for enhanced internet telephony: A method and apparatus for enhanced Internet telephony ensures that communication between a source and destination is not interrupted by common network address translation. According to one aspect of the invention, communication may continue through a router that employs network address translation.... Agent: John Baird

20080181376 - Telephone signal generator and methods and devices using the same: A method or device includes a telephone with an audio or video effects generator to produce audio or video effects that are transmitted as part of a signal from the telephone.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080181377 - Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to television users are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request for a voicemail message from the television user, determining a voicemail mailbox associated with the television user, and sending at least one of a list of one or more voicemail messages or... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080181378 - Method of correlating charging data records within an offline charging system: In an example method of correlating charging data records within an offline charging system, each of a plurality of sources selects a same one of a plurality of charging functions in which to route charging information associated with a given call session or event. In an example, the plurality of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181379 - Caller name authentication to prevent caller identity spoofing: Caller name is authenticated using authentication certificates issued by a registration authority that registers callers who wish to terminate calls to callers subscribed to the registration authority. In one embodiment, the authentication certificates are sent to a called device or a proxy for the called device via a path that... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080181380 - Proxy for authenticated caller name: A method of completing a telephone call based on an authenticated caller name proxy, and related proxy, including one or more of the following: a caller dialing the authenticated caller name proxy on behalf of a RealName entity; verifying that the RealName entity is a registered RealName entity; retrieving a... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080181381 - System and method for providing interoperable and on-demand telecommunications service: The present invention relates in general to the field of voice and data communications, and in particular, to a novel system for providing interoperable on-demand communications and services across otherwise incompatible narrowband voice and broadband systems. The system is also based on sponsored or universal communications services supported by interactive... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080181382 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for applying multiple communications services to a call: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing an enriched messaging service in a communications system is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a signaling message associated with a call at one of a plurality of service dispatch and control (SDC) functions, wherein the call signaling message includes... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080181383 - Communication system, server equipment and terminal equipment: PoC server has an audio data receiving section 305 that receives the audio data transmitted from a cellular phone, an audio data transmitting section that transfers the audio data to individual cellular phones other than the speaker's one, of two or more cellular phones, a receiving user storage section that... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080181384 - Multi-way call connection management system: The present invention is directed to a multi-way connection management (MWCM) system for monitoring and maintaining call connections among a group of participating parties. The multi-way call connection may be established by connecting the originating party and the desired participating parties. Once a multi-way call connection is established, the multi-way... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080181385 - Apparatus and system for converting public switch telephone network to wireless personal area network: The present invention is a wireless personal area network created utilizing the pre-existing wiring from conventional payphone devices. A data aggregator is operably connected to the wiring for the payphones to connect the aggregator to a public switch telephone network (PSTN) so that the data aggregator can communicate with a... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080181386 - Method, system and program product for dialed number service routing in a telephone network by reference to a database: In accordance with an improved call routing methodology, a call is routed within a communication network by reference to one or more databases. In response to receiving a local number portability request at a service control point (SCP), the SCP accesses one or more databases to determine whether or not... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080181387 - Telephone system and server apparatus: According to one embodiment, a telephone system includes a plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses which execute exchange processing among a plurality of telephone terminals and a server apparatus which is connected to the plurality of telephone exchange apparatuses via transmission paths, receives a call information event to specify a plurality... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080181388 - Telephone exchange system and service providing method for use in the system: According to one embodiment, a telephone exchange system includes a telephone exchange apparatus which accommodates a plurality of telephone terminals and is configured to connect a public network, a server apparatus which is connected to the telephone exchange apparatus and provides a service to execute at least a part of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080181390 - Method of analyzing conversational transcripts: Analyzing transcripts of conversation between at least two users by receiving input information from a first user via a voice call, creating conversational transcripts from the information received from the first user, selecting at least one defined situation from a list of defined situations, identifying the selected situation in the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080181389 - Systems and methods for workforce optimization and integration: Systems and methods are disclosed for an optimizing operations at a contact center. In one embodiment, an integrated contact center comprises: a workforce manager comprising a scheduler and a tracking function; and a lesson assignment function configured to receive at least one indicator of performance of the agent, and further... Agent: M. Paul Qualey, Jr. Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer &risley, L.L.P.

20080181391 - Telephone interface circuit: A hook switch turns on a transistor by connecting the positive electrode terminal of a capacitor to a base terminal of a transistor in an off-hook state, causing a speech circuit and telephone lines to be connected. The hook switch turns off the transistor by disconnecting the positive electrode terminal... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080181392 - Echo cancellation and noise suppression calibration in telephony devices: Methods and apparatus for noise suppression and echo cancellation are disclosed. An example embodiment of a method for noise suppression and echo cancellation includes monitoring an audio channel in a telephony device and determining, as a result of the monitoring, whether an active voice channel is established in the audio... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080181393 - Methods and apparatus to maintain communication services during a power failure: Methods and apparatus to maintain communication services during a power failure are disclosed. An example method comprises detecting a loss of power at a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem and detecting a power status of the DSL modem. The example method also includes, when the power status is in an... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080175355 - Emergency location identification system: An emergency location identification system is provided. The system includes a monitoring unit and an emergency light unit. The monitoring unit is connected to a telephone system of a facility, and responds to some predetermined dialing of the telephone generating signals, which is going to control the behavior of the... Agent: Ipla P.a.

20080175356 - Emergency responder reply system and related methods: An emergency responder reply system (ERRS) and method are disclosed that minimize, and in many instances eliminate, the delays frequently associated with responding to emergency and other events requiring response services. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a telephonic response from a responder to a dispatch for services; obtaining... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080175359 - System and method for controlling the operating states of an application: System and methods are provided that permit the operating state of a software application to be controlled with a single button on a keyboard. Data may be stored that associate the application's operating states with predetermined successor states. In response to operation of the key, the current operating state of... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080175357 - System and method for providing service mediation and orchestration for external telephony applications: A system for providing service mediation comprising a service enablement platform between a service network and a telephony application external to the service enablement platform, the service enablement platform comprising an adaptor providing an interface between the external telephony application and the service enablement platform, the adaptor exposing functionality of... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080175358 - Unified and consistent user experience for server and client-based services: Described is a technology by which a storage at a telephone device (e.g., a client telephone) is synchronized with information corresponding to actions performed at a computing device (e.g., a server) on behalf of the client. For example, the server may employ speech recognition to recognize a name or number... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080175360 - Method and system to verify the identity of a user: A method and system to verify the identity of a user are described. The system may include a communications module to receive a telephone number and a plurality of digits; an address detector to obtain a geographical address associated with a user, based on the telephone number; and a business... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080175361 - Apparatus and method for coextensive operation of multiple broadband services on a local network: Apparatus for converting a local POTS network to VoIP capability includes a signal controller that is adapted for connection between a broadband-enhanced POTS service point and the local network for reducing POTS signaling. The apparatus is, for example, a high pass filter that includes a first port for receiving broadband-enhanced... Agent: Alan Kalb, Vp Law Vonage

20080175362 - Methods and apparatus for alternative billing of voice over internet protocol (voip) services: Methods and apparatus for alternative billing of VoIP services are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving an indication at a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device that a call placed from the VoIP user device is blocked, and sending a VoIP protocol message containing billing information received at the VoIP... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, Llc

20080175363 - method and system for transferring an administrator and associated charges during a multi-way call: The present invention is directed to a method and system for altering an administrator of a multi-way call during the multi-way call connection and transferring the associated charges from one administrator to another. After a multi-way call connection is established from the originating party to many participating parties, the originating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080175364 - Method and apparatus for spectral containment over telephone service lines: A service to a user is prevented by providing, to the user, at least one communication link used to provide multiple services to the user. The plurality of services are activated over the at least one communication link. Transmission for the prevented service is prevented based on at least one... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080175365 - Collision avoidance methods and apparatus for intercommunication systems: This disclosure discloses methods and systems for subscribers of a multi-party conversation in digital intercommunication systems to efficiently obtain the right to speak.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080175366 - Distributed conferencing via pbx-conference bridge link: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing distributed conferencing is presented. A Public Branch Exchange (PBX) receives a plurality of calls intended for a conference bridge from a plurality of conference participants. The plurality of conference participants is conferenced together at the PBX. The plurality of conference participants... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080175367 - Method and system to verify the identity of a user: A method and system to verify the identity of a user are described. The system may include a communications module to receive a telephone number and a plurality of digits; an address detector to obtain a geographical address associated with a user, based on the telephone number; and a business... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080175368 - Rerouting ongoing telecommunications to a user: Rerouting telecommunications to a user including receiving a plurality of RFID signals from an RFID tag located with the user, anticipating a user's future location in dependence upon the RFID signals, selecting a telephony device in dependence upon the anticipated future location, and rerouting an ongoing call to the selected... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080175369 - Method of operating a telecommunications system for providing a remotely accessible personal telephone directory: A method of operating a telecommunications system for providing a remotely accessible personal telephone directory is disclosed. The remotely accessible personal telephone directory may be capable of storing numerous telephone numbers and may be accessed remotely from various parts of the world. The method may include a remotely accessible personal... Agent: Weiss & Moy Pc

20080175370 - Method for dial plan parsing and a system incorporating the same: A method and system for a dial plan parser includes a state machine configured upon a dial plan to which is applied call signaling data, and a call routing module/switch to transfer a call to a next point.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080175371 - Routing telecommunications to a user in dependence upon device-based routing preferences: Routing telecommunications to a user including receiving a call, determining that the call is intended for the user, receiving an RFID signal from an RFID tag located with the user, determining the user's location in dependence upon the RFID signal, identifying a plurality of available telephony devices in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080175373 - Apparatus and method for providing automatic language preference: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for storing a language preference and providing the stored language preference automatically without any intervention of a user. The user may have an option to set a desired language preference on the calling apparatus such as a telephone device. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080175372 - Operator network that routes customer care calls based on subscriber / device profile and csr skill set: An operator network is capable of routing incoming customer care calls to specific customer care representatives based on a subscriber profile and customer service representative (CSR) skill set. The device profile is retrieved from the mobile handset while the incoming customer care call is in a queue waiting to be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080175374 - Method and apparatus for managing received calls: A method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for managing received calls. In response to receiving a first call from a user, the process stores a record of the first call in a table of received calls. Thereafter, in response to receiving a second call from the user within a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080175375 - Echo canceler and echo canceling method: An echo canceler has an adaptive filter that generates an echo replica signal from a far-end signal. The filter coefficients of the adaptive filter are updated according to a residual error signal, which is obtained by subtracting the echo replica signal from a near-end signal to cancel echo. A background... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080170672 - Enhanced telecommunications greeting system: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for returning custom greetings to callers of a station that is not answering a telecommunications call. The greeting can be a specific message for one caller, while other callers receive a standard greeting. Callers are identified by incoming calling line identification or... Agent: Werner Ulrich

20080170673 - Method and system for communicating information: System and method for communicating information from an information provider to a recipient are provided. One illustrative application for the system and method is in a medical practice. The system and method may be used as an automated patient medical information message retrieval system to communicate certain medical information from... Agent: Curatolo Sidoti Co., Lpa

20080170674 - Retrieving electronic mail using a cellular telephone: Providing electronic mail (e-mail) to an electronic device includes receiving a text message from the electronic device, retrieving e-mail from one or more e-mail accounts in response to the text message, generating a hyperlink to the e-mail and sending the hyperlink to the electronic device. The electronic device may be... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080170675 - Method and system for dynamic tariffing and billing: A method and a system for dynamic tariffing and billing where tariffs of telecommunication services are adapted based on the usage of telecommunication services between members of a group account.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080170676 - Voice recognition advertisements: Delivery of advertisements to participants in communications using a packetized telephony protocol (e.g., VoIP). This may comprise identifying a keyword used in a telephone conversation between parties, at least one of which uses a packetized telephony protocol device to participate in the telephone conversation. Then, a particular advertisement that includes... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080170677 - Communication system and method: A method of establishing communication between a first and second terminal, the first terminal being arranged to communicate with a first communication system and the second terminal being arranged to communicate with a second communication system. The method comprises the steps of: a user of the second terminal selecting an... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080170678 - Signalling method taking account of the reason for the call: m

20080170679 - System and method for providing routing, mapping, and relative position information to users of a communication network: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing real-time position information of one party to another party by utilizing a conventional telecommunication network system such as the convention telephone network, a mobile telecommunications network, a computer network, or the Internet. More specifically, the preferred embodiments of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster, LLP

20080170680 - System and method for implementing and accessing call forwarding services: A communications service for communications addressed to or from a communications address is implemented by receiving, from a requester though a packet switching network, a request to access current communications service data for an account for the communications address. The current communications service data for the account is forwarded to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080170681 - Apparatus and method for originating call by using image: Provided is an apparatus and method for searching a phone number and originating a call by using an image in a mobile communication terminal having a touch screen. The apparatus includes the touch screen for displaying at least one image in an image area, a memory unit for storing at... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080170682 - Codec circuit for pots system: A CODEC circuit for POTS system comprises a digital circuit for outputting a digital control signal having a first bit width, the digital control signal being indicative of a voltage to be applied to a POTS subscriber line pair. Further, the CODEC circuit comprises a noise shaper coupled to an... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080170683 - Adaptive notification of an incoming call in a mobile phone: A device and method for handling announcement of an incoming call in a telephone handset at least in part in accordance with a measured ambient noise level is provided. In some embodiments, the disclosed device includes an audio signaling mechanism such as a ringer whose loudness is automatically adjusted in... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20080165935 - Voicemail system with quality assurance: In one embodiment, a method for ensuring quality of a media message is provided. The method includes receiving information for a media message. At least a portion of the media is analyzed to determine a media quality for the media message. The method then determines if the media quality is... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080165936 - Information processing apparatus and informatin processing method: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: an emission unit configured to emit a notification sound upon predetermined operation; a storage unit configured to store a call destination list including a plurality of call destinations; a determination unit configured to determine a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080165937 - Call re-directed based on voice command: In exemplary embodiments, a universal messaging adapter provides hands-free operation of a communications device. The adapter communicates with the communications device, and in some embodiments, with a peripheral device such as another communications device, a headset, and other devices. The universal messaging adapter allows a user to use voice commands... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080165938 - Handheld device for dialing of phone numbers extracted from a voicemail: A method for processing a telephone number embedded in a voicemail received by a user of the handheld device comprising a processor and a memory is provided. The method includes playing back the voicemail. The method further includes in response to receiving a first marker set by the user to... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080165939 - Selectable audio and mixed background sound for voice messaging system: Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by selectably mixing one or more sound files with a telephone caller's voice message, either as background for that message or embedded within the message. Or, the mixing may occur within a telephone conversation between parties. The disclosed techniques enable... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080165940 - Lawful interception of personalized ring back tones: Systems and methods for legal interception of the transmission of personalized ring back tones as they are sent from a network such as a mobile telephone network associated with a subscriber to a caller in response to a call placed by the caller to the subscriber to allow monitoring of... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080165941 - Transaction processing platform for facilitating electronic distribution of plural prepaid services: A transaction processing platform capable of facilitating the distribution to consumers of various types of prepaid products is disclosed. The transaction processing platform is configured to interface with one or more providers of such prepaid products in order to facilitate the procurement or activation of the products. The platform includes... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080165942 - Method and system for call screening: A method of screening a call from a calling party to a called party, the calling party being connected to a communication network through a first line, the called party being connected to said communication network through a second line, includes sending a notification to a screening terminal which is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080165943 - Method and apparatus for controlling a provisioning process in a telecommunications system: Method and apparatus for controlling a provisioning process. A first provisioning entity (115) issues a provisioning order (401). A provisioning controller (10) checks whether the received provisioning order is complete. If the order is not complete, a second provisioning entity (116,115) is selected to provide further provisioning data (PD1,PD2,PD3,PD4,PD5,PD6) so... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080165944 - Conference calling services: Methods and apparatus are described for initiating a conference call having a plurality of participants. A call originator is enabled to identify one or more participant identifiers. The call originator is enabled to establish a first connection to a remote system by which the one or more participant identifiers are... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080165945 - Reconferencing capability for networked phones: In one embodiment, a method comprises storing information associated with a conference call that has previously been terminated. The method also comprises obtaining a request to re-establish the terminated conference call, and re-establishing the conference call in response to the request to re-establish the conference call. Re-establishing the conference call... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080165946 - Direct route isdn primary route interface: A method of operating a telecommunications network includes, in one embodiment, detecting a call at an originating switch of the telecommunications network and, when a destination for the call matches a predetermined destination, routing the call on designated data trunks. When traffic on the designated data trunks exceeds a capacity... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080165947 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a dynamic and flexible media gateway termination identifier: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a dynamic and flexible media gateway termination identifier are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for flexibly identifying terminations within a media gateway. The method includes receiving a syntax for representing terminations of a media... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080165948 - Adaptive incoming call processing: Methods of processing incoming telephone calls include receiving an incoming telephone call from a caller, identifying the caller associated with the incoming telephone call, and processing the incoming call in response to a call handling rule generated in response to a menu selection made in a previous incoming call from... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080165949 - Multi-mode, multi-channel psychoacoustic processing for emergency communications: An emergency radio communication system utilizes radios with headset, headphones, earphones and/or custom audio interfaces for a minimum of two audio channels. Each radio receives multiple channel/frequency communications and spatially locates the received communications at predetermined “ear” locations comprising left earphone, right earphone, and both earphones (right and left) according... Agent: Gordon & Rees LLP

20080165950 - Switchable transmission device for vdsl co/cpe circuit: A switchable transmission device for the VDSL CO/CPE circuit is disclosed. A new hybrid filtering means is used to integrate a CO transmission set and a CPE transmission set into a single device. A switching unit is in charge of switching the functions. A VDSL controlling unit of the preferred... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080159487 - Methods and apparatus for low voltage control of a subscriber line interface circuit: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a device having a low voltage SLIC to perform SLIC functions at a low voltage and to provide metallic and longitudinal currents to a high voltage SLIC. The low voltage SLIC may be designed based on an operational amplifier cell architecture, and the... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080159488 - Voice based caller identification and screening: Verification of Caller identification, used independently of caller ID or as an adjunct to caller ID for caller verification by matching caller voice samples to voice samples previously stored. Verification algorithms can be implemented as a stand alone device connected to the telephone line or the interne, in software which... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159489 - System and method for providing an announcement indicating the status of a called party: One embodiment of the method includes the steps of receiving a call destined for a called party from a calling party, determining if a status announcement service has been activated for the called party, and delivering a status announcement to the calling party if the determining step determines that the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080159490 - System and method for controlling access to conference calls: A conferencing system enables conference participants to control external party access to an ongoing conference call by providing a conference server that includes a conference client operable to manage a conference call between conference participants, an interface operable to receive an instruction during the conference call that defines a policy... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080159491 - System for the management and use of information from voice input: A voice based information system configurable to serve and facilitate efficient voice messaging, voice based parameters, voice based reporting, voice based calendaring, and voice retailing includes systems that use some voice capable device (1) that provides information to an interface (2) for additional processing by some or all of various... Agent: Santangelo Law Offices, P.c.

20080159493 - Coalescence of voice mail systems: A coalescence voice mail service provider enables a user to access all of the user's voice mail systems implemented within the various telecommunications systems the user has accounts with. Using any one of the telecommunications devices of the user, the user accesses voice mail from any one or more of... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.c.

20080159492 - Methods, systems, and products for responding to communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for responding to a communication. The communication is received from a sender's address and is destined for a recipient's address. An audible message associated with the sender's address is retrieved. The audible message is sent to a server that stores messages associated with the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080159494 - Service and maintenance guide for appliance: A household appliance such as a refrigerator includes a housing and a user interface operatively connected to the housing. The user interface includes a display and user inputs. The user interface is adapted for showing on the display a part number for a component part, contact information for use in... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080159495 - System and method of use for indexing automated phone systems: A telephone subnet crawler is used to access automated telephone response systems and index the information, contents and structure contained therein. A database of the information, contents and structure of a plurality of automated telephone response systems is created by the telephone subnet crawler. A user interface provides callers with... Agent: The Jansson Firm

20080159496 - Method and system for detecting a transfer of an end point device: A method and system for detecting a transfer of an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method receives an indication of a transfer of an endpoint device to a new user by a service provider. The method then notifies a subscriber associated with the endpoint device that the indication... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080159497 - Server control apparatus: A server control apparatus includes an MCU, a DTMF receiver, and a voice chip. The voice chip saves a plurality of voice elements, and the MCU saves a plurality of voice messages each including a plurality of voice elements and play time of the voice elements, corresponding to status information... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080159498 - Simultaneous voice and data systems for secure catalog orders: Systems and methods for providing a simultaneous voice and data user interface for secure catalog orders and in particular for providing a system and method for providing a distributed voice user interface for a remote device having a limited visual user interface simultaneously with a data stream for facilitating secure... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080159499 - User equipment timestamps for offline charging in ims networks: Communication networks and associated methods are disclosed that provide offline charging in IMS networks. One of the methods includes receiving call signaling for a call from an access network serving user equipment for the call. The call signaling includes an access network identifier for the access network. The method further... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080159500 - Method for controlling process of establishing call: The present invention discloses a method for controlling a process of establishing a call, comprising: setting group codes in a called terminal; sending a calling number and a corresponding group code to the called terminal; the called terminal determining whether the received group code is one of the group codes... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080159501 - Validating caller id information to protect against caller id spoofing: Caller ID validation system and methods are provided. When a call is placed over a communication network, a validation system receives the call signaling, and processes the call signaling to identify originating node information in the call signaling. The originating node information is inserted by the communication network when handling... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080159502 - Method and apparatus for providing caller identification information: l

20080159503 - Methods and systems for configuring and providing conference calls with customized caller id information: Methods and systems for automatically providing conference calls are disclosed. In one aspect, methods and systems detect a conference call event that was previously configured by a subscriber user and identify participant users associated with the conference call event. In another aspect, when configuring a conference call event, a subscriber... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159504 - Method and apparatus for improved analog line migration to accommodate customer premise equipment changes: A method and apparatus for improved analog line migration to accommodate customer premise equipment (CPE) changes are provided. For example, this development relates to a method and apparatus that controls per line migration of analog lines on the public switched telephone network (PSTN) where the telephone set change must be... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080159505 - System and method for providing configuration information to a fixed communication device: A gateway includes a transceiver operable to transmit and receive communications to a fixed communication device; and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor is configured to facilitate establishing an FXS/FXO connection to the fixed communication device; detecting a configuration query received via the transceiver from the fixed... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159506 - Network element provisioning and event simulation in a communications network: In a network management system, an application program simulates provisioning operations and other network events in a communications network. The network management system may receive a selection of live network elements to be utilized in a simulated provisioning operation and provisioning instructions. The network management system may then flag the... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080159508 - Communication system: A communication system comprises a bridge device being configured to manage multi-channel communications, a host terminal coupled to the bridge device through a first network, a participant terminal coupled to the bridge device through a second network, and a broadcasting device coupled to at least one of the host terminal... Agent: Akin Gump LLP - Silicon Valley

20080159511 - Conference call initialization: An approach for using a centralized conference call manager is provided for initiating conference calls. Users register with the centralized conference call manager to set up a conference call at a future date and time. When the designated time/date arrive, the centralized conference call manager contacts the various intended attendees... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080159507 - Distributed teleconference multichannel architecture, system, method, and computer program product: Provided are multichannel architectures, systems, methods, and computer program products for distributed teleconferencing using one or more master devices and/or a centralized conferencing switch. Multichannels enhance functionality of a master device in distributed teleconferencing and allow for compatibility with 3D capable teleconferencing. Multichannel distributed teleconferencing involves multichannel, monophonic, and/or a... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080159510 - Method and system for supplying information to participants in a telephone conversation: A method of supplying information to participants in a telephone conference call carried out using a telecommunication network, a plurality of terminals, and a conference server. A data transmission link is established between at least two terminals and a data server that accesses the network, the data transmission link being... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159509 - Methods, systems, and products for monitoring conferences: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for monitoring a conference. A first bridging function is established that bridges together signals received from all conference participants. A second bridging function is established that bridges together signals received from i) a subset of the conference participants, ii) an output of the first... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080159512 - Method and system for inserting user defined comfort signal: During communication over the network, periods of silence may exist. During these periods, the system may enable a user at a user terminal to define characteristics of a comfort signal. The system may monitor transmission to detect periods of silence. The system may adapt the monitored transmission by adding the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159513 - System and method for providing automatic alerts of network availability to a fixed communication device: A gateway includes a transceiver operable to transmit and receive communications to a fixed communication device, and a processor cooperatively operable with the transceiver. The processor is configured to facilitate during a non-alerting mode: detecting when a fixed communication device attempts to connect via the transceiver to a voice over... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080159514 - Telecommunication device: An electronic device and a method are for responding to an incoming call. The response is performed by receiving the incoming call, analyzing features within the incoming call to determine a stress level, presenting an intervention alert when the stress level meets a defined criterion, and holding the incoming call... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080159515 - Communication system for remotely updating a registered user's status: A communication system for remotely updating a registered user's status allows the user to make status updates using a uniquely dialed number to a feature server of the system. The unique number corresponds to a particular status state that the user desires to be shared with others.... Agent: Inter-tel (delaware), Inc. A Mitel Company

20080159516 - Method and system of providing on-network communication services: An approach is provided for using on-network communication services for wireless calls. Dialed digits associated with a call originated from a wireless network are received. It is then determined whether the dialed digits include either a steering digit or a pre-determined prefix. The call is routed according to an abbreviated... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159517 - System, method and apparatus for placing a telephone call: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect an identity of a caller; receive an assigned incoming telephone number; identify a recipient associated with the assigned incoming telephone number and the identity; and connect the caller and the recipient.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080159518 - Method, system and device for implementing interconnection between ip domains: The present invention relates to a method, a system and a device for implementing interconnection between IP domains. The method mainly includes: first, the Media Gateway Controller (MGC) sends the IP domain information of the IP domain to which the media stream to be created pertains to the Media Gateway... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080159519 - Method and an associated system for instantaneously obtaining costumer consent in relation to the purchase of a good or service: A method and an associated system for obtaining a consent from a customer (U) by means of an interactive voice server (3) following a telephone conversation between the customer (U) and a telesales advisor (A) of a call center to confirm a purchase by the customer. To this end, an... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080159520 - Adaptive communication application programming interface: An apparatus and method for maintaining data for multi-channel communication queuing associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A list of agent data includes information related to types of communication media an agent can access. The data can further include information related to an agent's skills,... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080159521 - System for establishing outbound communications with contacts from a call center: A method for determining a statistical probability that a contact will answer a pending outbound call includes steps for (a) performing a lookup in a data repository to determine presence status of the contact relative to a network server, (b) equating the presence status found to a value, and (c)... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080159522 - Method and apparatus for providing ringtone scheduling: An approach is provided for scheduling of ringtones. A ringtone schedule is stored for specifying information for invoking a plurality of ringtones, wherein one of the ringtones is selected for playout by a mobile device according to the ringtone schedule.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080159523 - Method and system for identifying and removing stale connections on a user device: A device containing an MTA, executing a connection deletion method, determines that a connection at one of its endpoints may be abandoned after a predetermined amount of time after an on-hook event following a first call. If the MTA determines that the CMS it is coupled to has begun managing... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080159524 - Intelligent provisioning of dsp channels for codec changes: A communication system in which a profile of codecs is loaded at the originating end. The originating end sends the profile of codecs to the terminating end and receives in return an indication of which codec to use. The originating end and the terminating end create a reduced profile that... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.c.

20080159525 - Tracking voltage regulator for a subscriber line interface circuit: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a first pair of low voltage operational amplifiers to generate an output representative of an absolute value difference of first and second line voltages of a subscriber loop, and a third low voltage operational amplifier having an input coupled to... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc