Telephonic communications inventions 09/08

20080232556 - Keyword alerting in conference calls: A conferencing system is disclosed in which a participant to a conference call can program the embodiment to listen for one or more “keywords” in the conference call. The keywords might be a participant's name or words associated with him or her or words associated with his or her area... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232557 - Attachment of rich content to a unified message left as a voicemail: A method in one embodiment includes storing a voicemail message in a mailbox of a recipient, the voicemail message being left by a sender, and then electronically receiving one or more attachments from the sender. The one or more attachments are stored as content associated with the voicemail message. Upon... Agent: The Law Offices Of Bradley J. Bereznak

20080232558 - Dynamic voice file creation and organization for leaving messages in the event of a catastrophe: A system for message storage and retrieval that includes a first data repository, and a first communication manager configured to obtain an identifier and a message from a first user, create a first message mailbox associated with the identifier in the first data repository after receiving the message, store the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080232559 - Method for voice response and voice server: A voice response method and a voice server. The method comprises: obtaining a voice service request and transforming the voice service request to a text service request; obtaining corresponding voice response data and visual response data according to the text service request; and transmitting the voice response data and visual... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080232560 - Method and system to control ivr-ivr dialogue sessions: The present invention relates to controlling progress of a dialogue session. The dialogue session is initiated by a calling Interactive Voice Response (IVR) either with a called IVR or with a called Voice Mail System (VMS). Various progress detectors are provided at the calling IVR to detect the progress at... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080232561 - Advertising funded data access services: Techniques for using advertising to fund the use of client-side or network-side data access services by a user of a personal electronic device are discussed. Digital advertising content is associated with data items accessible via a particular data access service at a variety of processing locations, using a variety of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080232562 - Telephone device: A telephone device comprises an input unit through which a telephone number is inputted, main storage configured to store the telephone number inputted through the input unit, a processor configured to identify a first number string corresponding to an area code, a second number string corresponding to a local number,... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080232563 - Account administration system and method with security function: An account administration system and method with security function are provided. The system comprises an identification unit, an issue unit, a portable communication device, and a identification device, wherein after the issue unit receiving the request massage from the portable communication device, a user password will be generated from the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080232564 - Call hunt and ringback on the phone through messenger: Techniques that enable a user to make VOIP phone calls using a traditional telephone by directing a communications module to connect the caller to another user are provided. The caller first dials a DID and identifies a receiver to be reached. Once the caller has identified the receiver, the caller... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080232565 - Communications system: A method of providing services in a communication system. The method comprises: establishing a call instance from a caller terminal to a service provider terminal in the communication system; transmitting from the service provider terminal a service proposal in the form of an electronic document via the established call instance... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080232566 - Adaptive, context-driven telephone number dialing: A technique is disclosed that enables a context-driven, adaptive technique for generating a list of telephone numbers. The technique of the illustrative embodiment of the present invention seeks to dynamically anticipate what telephone numbers a user might want to dial—even before the user knows—and presents the names of the parties... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232567 - Abstract application dispatcher: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing one or more services in a communication session such as a call or other media exchange independent of supporting network technologies. According to one embodiment, a system for providing one or more services in a communication session can comprise a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080232568 - Adaptive, multi-channel teleconferencing system: A method is disclosed to determine the presence of one or more cellular phones in the same sound field as an endpoint that is dedicated for teleconferencing, such as a speakerphone. The teleconference bridge of the illustrative embodiment continually receives geo-location information about the cell phone. Based on the geo-location... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232569 - Teleconferencing system with multi-channel imaging: A method is disclosed that breaks the “one line, one location” paradigm of teleconferencing in the prior art. The teleconference bridge in the illustrative embodiment is able to utilize more than one audio channel from each location. By having access to more than one audio channel from a teleconference location's... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232570 - Automatic reconstitution of telecommunications sessions: A telecommunications feature is disclosed that enables a person to disconnect from a telecommunications session (e.g., a telephone call, a chat session, a video conference, etc.) and to be automatically reconnected at a later time. For example, Fred might be required to participate in his project group's weekly conference call,... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232571 - System and method for providing location information: A system and method for providing location information is provided. The system may include a communication device. The communication device may include a communication interface to receive a notice of an incoming communication. The communication device may also include a display to display a representation of a present location of... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080232572 - Automatic provisioning of abbreviated dialing codes: A system, method and a computer program product for automatically provisioning an abbreviated dialing code are disclosed. The system includes a provisioning manager designed to process a request to provision an abbreviated dialing code. The provisioning manager includes a provisioning server that receives the request and a database of rules,... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080232573 - User-programmable call progress tone detection: A telecommunications system is disclosed that enables a telecommunications switch to be “user” programmable in the “field”—in contrast to only programmable by the manufacturer or third-party software company—with audio samples. Each audio sample is exemplar of a sound that might be encountered during or after the establishment of a telecommunications... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080232574 - Flexible communication systems and methods: A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving from at least one of the one or more of telecommunication carriers a bid to carry the telecommunications session, and automatically selecting one of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080232575 - Context recovery for call center agents: A call center processes calls in such a way that a caller's matter is first handled by a first agent and is subsequently handled by a second agent. The call center creates a voice recording of at least part of that portion of the caller's matter handled by the first... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080232576 - Contact bank: A contact bank, which can be terminated, or is terminated, at least one terminal module serving for signal communication and being adapted to allow telecommunications lines to be connected therewith, or at least one supplementary module, of a telecommunications distribution point, which is connected to a terminal module, whereby the... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080232577 - Echo cancellation: A method of determining if an echo canceller comprised in a communication channel that is used to transmit at least one tonal signal and characterized by a model echo path of the channel, is acceptably adapted to cancel echoes in the channel, the method comprising: determining a performance measure how... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP

20080232578 - Ethernet voltage source apparatus and method: An Ethernet voltage source apparatus and method. The apparatus includes an electrical connector, a receiving circuit electrically connected to the Ethernet cable connector, a voltage regulator/power conditioning circuit electrically connected to the receiving circuit, and a first interface output connector electrically connected to the voltage regulator/power conditioning circuit. The receiving... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080232579 - Telephone communication system over a single telephone line: A network for coupling at least one telephone service signal to at least one telephone device over a wiring. The network includes: a wiring having at least two conductors for carrying multiple time-domain multiplexed digitized voice channels; an exchange side device coupled to the wiring and operative to couple at... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080226039 - Emergency call service with automatic third party notification and/or bridging: A system for processing emergency calls in a telecommunications network includes: receiving a first call at a node (30) of the telecommunications network from a calling party that originated the first call; detecting that the received first call is an emergency call; establishing a conference bridge in response to the... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20080226040 - Saving information from information retrieval systems: A method and system for allowing a calling party to save information obtained from an information retrieval system. The caller may select options to save the information to a memory location, e.g., the caller's own network-based voice mail system or a temporary voice mailbox provided for the caller by the... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080226041 - Phone number extraction system for voice mail messages: Methods, apparatuses, and media for extracting phone numbers from voice mail messages are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for determining a phone number in a voice mail message that includes analyzing a message and determining phone number(s) associated with the message based on the analysis. Embodiments of the method... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080226042 - Systems and methods for enabling a user to more easily navigate an interactive voice response (ivr) menu: In one aspect, the present invention provides a system and method for enabling a user to more easily navigate an IVR menu by, for example, displaying to the user a visual representation of the IVR menu.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080226043 - Failover voice messaging: An improved approach to failover voice messaging services is provided. In one example, a method includes detecting a network communication interruption between a branch office and a main office, provisioning a mailbox of a failover voice messaging system of the branch office, and receiving an incoming call at the branch... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080226044 - System and method for managing a telecommunications network: A system and method for managing a telecommunications network and which may let a user monitor and control the user's network telephone services is disclosed. The system may include a CEO Dashboard, a Migration Module, and a Trouble Ticket Wizard. Additionally, the system may include backend processes that periodically run,... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080226045 - Method for the remote request of information which is stored in a telecommunication entity and a telecommunication entity having remote request functionality for stored information: An apparatus and method for the remote request of information stored in telecommunication devices. In operation, an initialization message is transmitted to a telecommunication device, which initiates the remote request of stored information. The initialization message can also be used to notify the telecommunication device of an authorization code authorizing... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080226046 - Integrated alerting: In a wide-area communication system, users or numbers in the system to be alerted are ranked so to improve the efficiency of the alert calls. Rankings are based on various factors, including whether two or more users are on the same active call, whether a user is on an active... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080226047 - System and method for spam detection: A caller verification system and method include generating a challenge to be sent to a caller which requires a response from the caller prior to accepting a call. A response or lack thereof is determined from the caller, and the response is analyzed relative to an acceptable response to determine... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080226048 - Method and system for temporarily provisioning a telephone service feature for a subscriber: The invention provides a method and system for temporarily provisioning a telephone service feature. At the request of a calling or called party, a telephone service feature to be temporarily provisioned can be identified. Once identified, the telephone service feature can be provisioned and activated to handle the telephone service... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080226049 - Location based mixer priorities in conferences: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a plurality of locations associated with a conference system that has a conference server and a mixer, and prioritizing the locations by assigning a first priority to at least a first location and assigning a second priority to a second location. The second... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20080226050 - System and method for establishing conference events: A system and method for providing additional information to conference participants with regard to a predefined conference event such as scheduled conference. In various embodiments, outgoing conference indications include an identifier that indicates to a recipient that the conference invitation is being sent due to the occurrence of a scheduled... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080226051 - Techniques for managing a multimedia conference call: Techniques for managing a multimedia conference call are described. An apparatus may comprise a wireless device having at least one wireless transceiver and a conference call manager module. The conference call manager module may establish a voice connection and a data connection for a multimedia conference call using the wireless... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080226052 - Method and system for adding a background tone to a call: A method for adding a background tone to a call includes: triggering a background tone service, according to a preset triggering mechanism, upon receipt of a call from a calling subscriber to a called subscriber; establishing a three-party call among the calling subscriber, the called subscriber, and the background tone... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080226053 - Voice communication terminal: When an outgoing call is to be requested on a terminal, the terminal transmits a first outgoing call request containing the priority of outgoing call operation. When the terminal transmits the first outgoing call request, and then receives a second outgoing call request addressed to the terminal before it receives... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080226054 - Efficient communication through networks: A method and device that interrogates the availability of a called party before placing a communication from the calling party to the called party. A callback may be initiated so that both communications are completed simultaneously. The routing of communication may take place through any one of a number of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080226055 - Systems, methods, and devices for a callback/callback reminder feature: A telecommunications device. The device includes a receiver for receiving an incoming call and a processor in communication with the receiver. The processor has a callback/callback reminder module for automatically calling back a calling party of an incoming call or for sending a user a reminder to callback the calling... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080226056 - Methods, systems, and products for providing telephony services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing telephony services to customers. A metaservice is associated with a directory number. The metaservice is provisioned as a pseudo-service for advanced telephony services for the directory number. When a request is received for an advanced telephony service for the directory number, then... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080226057 - Method and apparatus for placing a long distance call based on a virtual phone number: A method and apparatus for reducing the cost of long distance phone calls is disclosed. Accordingly, an originating phone network is operatively connected to a first intermediate point, and a receiving phone network is operatively connected to a second intermediate point. Each intermediate point is operatively connected to communicate via... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080226058 - System and method for expedited resolution of inquiries for an automated agent: An automated agent system and method includes an action classifier which scores a representation of a portion of a user inquiry based on a knowledge bank. A comparing device compares a running score of the representation to a threshold to determine if enough information has been collected to respond early... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080226059 - Method and system for managing calls: A method for managing calls includes allocating a plurality of agents among a plurality of queues, receiving a plurality of calls each for connection with at least one of the plurality of agents, and assigning each of the plurality of calls to a queue of the plurality of queues. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080226060 - Outlet add-on module: A method and an apparatus for upgrading an existing service outlet (e.g. LAN, telephone, power or CATV outlet) in a house by adding functionality thereto. The functionality is added by an add-on module, connected electrically and secured mechanically to the existing outlet. Several attachment devices are exampled, including surface attachment,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080226061 - Universal speakerphone with adaptable interface: An adaptable or universal communication interface module is linked to a main speakerphone module having audio pickup and playback capabilities, resides between the telephone and the communications line and allows users to utilize a non-manufacturer-specific speakerphone, i.e., that that can be used with any telephone communication system. When the user... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080219413 - Systems and methods for loop gauge detection based on per-port calibration: Systems and methods for performing loop gauge detection are described. One embodiment is a method that comprises receiving a calibrated per-port echo signal of a loop under test, receiving a loop length estimation for the loop under test, and estimating the loop gauge of the loop under test if the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20080219414 - Voice recognition dialing for alphabetic phone numbers: Systems, methods and media for determining a phone number from a spoken alphabetic phone number are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for determining a phone number that includes receiving spoken alphanumeric content from a user, the spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters, such as letters, numbers... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080219415 - Apparatus and method for providing a voice message in a communication system: A method and apparatus for providing a voice message in a communication system are provided. Upon receiving a request message for providing a voice message to a calling terminal, a caller information detector determines whether the request message includes language select information indicating a language of a voice message to... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080219416 - Method and system for obtaining feedback from at least one recipient via a telecommunication network: A system for obtaining feedback from at least one recipient via a telecommunication network, includes a communication device having a messaging client in bi-directional communication with a messaging serve for receiving one or more events relating to a recipient receiving or responding to a media message sent by a communication... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080219417 - Evaluating performance of a voice mail sub-system in an inter-messaging network: One preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for evaluating the performance of a network interface sub-system of an inter-messaging network of voice mail systems. This preferred embodiment includes a network query device that connects to the inter-messaging network and requests a test data file to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080219418 - Inter-switch voicemail analysis tool: A method for analyzing ISVM signaling messages that includes copying, to a message file, messages being transmitted through a signaling link, extracting ISVM messages from the message file that meet at least one trouble criterion, storing the extracted messages in an error report file, and generating an error report from... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080219419 - Method and device for forwarding telephone data: A device is disclosed in the field of user network access using xDSL processes. ADSL and VDSL processes have long been known. However, the object of the invention is to improve the known devices and processes, in particular the range of the subscriber line, the voltage supply and/or the migration... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080219420 - Method for billing for a data transmission by selecting accounts: At least two billing accounts that can be accessed by a selection message of a communications terminal are used to bill for a data transmission in a telecommunication network. After the data transmission directed to the communications terminal of a communications subscriber or originating from the communications terminal has begun,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080219421 - System and method for transferring credit between subscribers of differing telecommunications carriers: A system for transferring credit between subscribers (12) of differing telecommunications carriers (14). The system involves a first subscriber (12a) sending a communication message (26), via a first communication device (16a), to a destination address (24) associated with a payment facilitator (22a) possessed by a first telecommunication carrier (14a). The... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080219422 - System and method for independently authorizing auxiliary communication services: Systems and methods which determines the likelihood that a calling (or in some cases the called) user will pay for a particular auxiliary service are described. A system of an embodiment considers the user's credit risk and his/her propensity to pay, when deciding if the user is eligible for a... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.l.p.

20080219423 - System and method for centralized presence management of local and remote users: Systems and methods for centralized presence management of local and remote users are provided. In exemplary embodiments, presence management information for the local and remote users are determined. Permissions established for at least one presence management user are reviewed to determine an amount of access to the presence management information... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080219424 - Access code enhancement for caller preview service: By manipulating parameters of call setup messages, calls made with a caller's access code in a caller preview service may be completed to the called party of voice mail box with caller identification information displayed.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080219425 - Presence system and method for the telephone status information: A system for presenting telephone state information includes a presence server 10; a presence client end 20 and a presence contact end 30 which are respectively connected with the presence server 10 and communicate with each other through the presence server 10; a user telephone line monitoring device 40, used... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080219426 - Conference call access: A method for facilitating access to a conference call is disclosed. The method can comprise allowing a prospective participant to join the conference call after the prospective participant provides a personal ID rather than a conference ID. The method can comprise using at least one of a prospective participant's personal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080219427 - Information terminal, server and communication method and method for selecting a communication service: An information terminal includes a microprocessor for gathering a plurality of information sets of a user, with the user being a communication partner, and the information set including an identification tag for specifying the communication partner, communication service information corresponding to a specific communication service among a plurality of communication... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080219428 - System and method for voice-activated dialing over implicit and explicit nfa trunks: A system for voice-activated dialing including means for initiating a call through a first connection between a user's phone and a switch at a central office; responsive to the first connection, means for initiating a second connection over the implicit trunk between the switch and a voice over internet protocol... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080219429 - Implementing a contact center using open standards and non-proprietary components: The present invention discloses an open contact center formed from multiple contact center components that conform to open standards and that intercommunicate utilizing open standards. The open contact center can provide automated interactive communications with callers, can provide queue management for callers waiting to communicate with live agents, can provide... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080219430 - Outlet add-on module: A method and an apparatus for upgrading an existing service outlet (e.g. LAN, telephone, power or CATV outlet) in a house by adding functionality thereto. The functionality is added by an add-on module, connected electrically and secured mechanically to the existing outlet. Several attachment devices are exampled, including surface attachment,... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080219431 - Method and apparatus for echo cancellation: A telephony system equipped with an echo cancellation module is disclosed. A hybrid interface circuit outputs an outbound signal to a wall jack while receiving an inbound signal from the wall jack. The inbound signal may contain a line echo of the outbound signal caused by the impedance mismatches in... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080219432 - Echo delay detector: An echo detector has a correlator for correlating between an incoming signal and an echo signal, the correlator being arranged to operate recursively, the detector being arranged to detect the echo and the length of its delay from peaks in the correlation. Recursive operation means the computational load can drop... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080219433 - Full duplex hands-free telephone system: A telephone system comprising an analog telephone and a full-duplex speakerphone adapter is disclosed. The analog telephone comprises an ordinary analog telephone subscriber circuit for transmitting and receiving analog signals and a handset for users. The full-duplex speakerphone adapter is coupled between the analog telephone and a central office, uses... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080219434 - Method and apparatus for voice communication: A voice communication device with an integrated framework structure for echo cancellation and noise reduction is disclosed. A microphone receives a local input signal while a speaker is outputting a local output signal. The local input signal and output signal are all decomposed into a plurality of subband signals by... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080212745 - Method and device for checking the connection of a positive supply voltage to a subscriber access line comprising a plurality of wires: According to the invention, a user connection cable (TAL) that is to be associated with a user connection circuit (SLIC) and is used for connecting at least one user (TN) to at least one communication network is verified regarding switching on of a positive distribution voltage in the strands (a,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080212744 - Method, system, apparatus, and program for verifying media service features: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for verifying a service provided to at least one subscriber terminal in a communication network. The method includes connecting a communication device to the network, logging into a test unit communicatively coupled to the network using the communication device, entering into the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080212746 - System and method for communicating medical alerts: A system and method for communication based on a condition of a user. A VoIP telephone is linked with a device for monitoring one or more health metrics of a user. The one or more health metrics of the user are received from the device. A speaker of the VoIP... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080212747 - Method and apparatus for serializing an asynchronous communication: A method and apparatus for scalable handling of communications with varying numbers of participants over a telephone interface is described. The approach treats the different participants recorded communications as part of a larger asynchronous communication and provides a serializing (voice) user interface for participating in the conversation. This can be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080212748 - Voice communications menu: Methods and systems are described for providing a telecommunications services menu accessible via a voice interactive system, such as a voice services node. A subscriber accesses a voice communications menu by accessing a voice services node. The voice services node queries a customer profile database to obtain a list of... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080212749 - Method and system for implementing downloading the media resources by terminal and a ring-back tone platform: A method for implementing downloading the media resources by terminal is applied in the mobile communication network, which comprises: the calling terminal calls the called user subscribing the ring-back tone service through the Mobile Switching Center MSC of the calling side, according to the ring-back tone registering information of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080212750 - System for providing network information service using cid-type messages: A network-based announcement and message delivery service for providing a landline customer with information of interest such as weather, financial market data, time/temperature, sporting event results, etc. In a first embodiment, information is provided to a subscriber who simply lifts the handset of the telephone. The subscriber instead of hearing... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080212751 - Telephone background screensaver with live internet content: Discloses a system and method for display of live content on a telephone handset with an input keypad and a graphical display. The live content is gathered from a one source of live content information and a configuration agent receives user live content selection input from a computer or the... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080212752 - Systems, methods and apparatus for receipt printing and information display in a personal identification number delivery system: Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a personal identification number (PIN) in the form of a receipt displayed and/or printed by a client terminal are disclosed. A method includes storing, at the client terminal, receipt templates, received from a server, for plural prepaid services from a plurality of prepaid service... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080212753 - Terminal apparatus, call switching method, and recording medium having stored therein call switching program: A terminal apparatus capable of performing a normal call and a hand-free call comprising an imaging unit that images an image; a detecting unit that detects a position of the terminal apparatus using the image imaged by the imaging unit; and a call switching unit that switches the normal call... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080212754 - Method and system for providing enhanced call waiting: A system and method for providing information about a calling party to a called party is disclosed. Generally, a network element obtains information about a calling party when a telephone line of a called party is busy. The network element notifies the called party that the calling party is attempting... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080212755 - Graphical user interface for telephony device: For use with a telephony application executed within a computer having a screen display, the improvement comprising displaying a tool bar having at least one context sensitive button within a task bar on the screen display, wherein the tool bar is located so as not to overlap any application windows... Agent: Inter-tel (delaware), Inc. A Mitel Company

20080212757 - Method of and system for providing services in a communications network: A system for providing services in a communications network includes a service processing function, a universal directory function, and a nodal resource manager. The service processing function receives service requests, formulates requests for interworking functions based upon service requests, and formulates resource requests based upon service requests and interworking functions.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080212756 - Systems and methods for arranging a call: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of arranging a call with a service provider is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether the service provider accepts arranged calls; if it is determined that the service provider does not accept arranged calls, contacting the service provider to request... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv2)

20080212758 - Telecommunication and advertising business model and method of utilizing same: A telecommunication and advertising business model and method of utilizing same that permits users to make telephone calls for a predetermined amount of time according to the destination of the call. The telecommunication and advertising business model is controlled by an on-line database system and comprises customers, and companies that... Agent: Albert Bordas, P.A.

20080212759 - Anonymity engine for online advertising, sales and information distribution: Systems and methods for providing online sales and advertising are disclosed. A system may be configured to provide an online advertisement and, responsive to a received request for information regarding the advertisement from a potential buyer, provide information related to the advertisement to a seller to facilitate a sales transaction.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080212761 - Method and system for verification of remote party identification: A method for processing a transaction includes receiving validation requests, automatically initiating one or more callbacks to an authorized transactor, and validating one or responses from the authorized transactor. The automatic initiation is in response to the validation requests, and according to pre-selected authorized transactor information. The responses from the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080212760 - Method of scheduling calls: An apparatus and method are provided for scheduling calls. The method includes the steps of providing a calling period with a plurality of sub-periods and determining a set of historical call completion ratios associated with the plurality of sub-periods. The method further includes the steps of exponentially scaling the respective... Agent: Jon P. Christensen Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080212763 - Network-based methods and systems for responding to customer requests based on provider presence information: An “always-on” network and associated systems enable customers to compare and select products and services offered by one or more providers faster than previously thought possible. In addition, communication connections may be established between customers and providers in real-time.... Agent: Capitol Patent & Trademark Law Firm, PLLC

20080212762 - System and method for call initiation using availability information: A system and method are provided for initiating a call to an intended called party on one or more alternate numbers based on availability of the called party as determined by the called party's presence server or other database. If the called party is determined to be ‘not available’ and... Agent: Inter-tel (delaware), Inc. A Mitel Company

20080212764 - Communication relay apparatus, communication relay method, and computer product: As a result of a power saving technique for a portable dual terminal equipped with both WLAN unit and PHS unit, a call is usually relayed from an S-P gateway to a call receiver terminal via the PSTN, thereby incurring a call charge to the caller. According to the present... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080212765 - Directory assistance with advertisement from category related to request category: The current invention is a system for providing telephone directory assistance service in which a telephone user calls to the system and the system will, based on the requested number or type of service, hear a recorded advertisement selected from a category related to the requested service. The advertisements are... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080212766 - Stateless gateways having remote dialog store: Gateway apparatus for facilitating communications using a stateful protocol (e.g., SIP or SIP/SIMPLE protocol). The gateway apparatus includes a plurality of gateway devices and a remote dialog store, wherein each of the plurality of gateway devices comprises export logic for causing dialog information associated with a first received message (e.g.,... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080212767 - Method of routing prospective or current customer information requests to find the best currently available staff member: A method of routing customer inquires for an organization using an inbound or outbound caller or online echatter, typically in a call center, including steps of engaging in a communication with a customer wherein the customer provides an information inquiry, determining a number of staff members of the organization that... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080212768 - Method and apparatus for adaptive power adjustment based on reduction of cross-talk between dsls: An adaptive power adjustment method and means based on reducing crosstalk among DSL lines includes: calculating the crosstalk power spectrum density and the crosstalk function from the neighboring line in current line; calculating the transmission power spectrum density of the current terminal device according to the obtained crosstalk power spectrum... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd