Telephonic communications inventions 11/08

20080292064 - Methods and apparatus to characterize a digital subscriber line (dsl) subscriber loop: Methods and apparatus to characterize a digital subscriber line (DSL) subscriber loop are disclosed. An example method comprises selecting a portion of a search space based on a measured transfer function response, the search space defining a plurality of combinations of transmission line parameters, and identifying a characterizing parameter of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080292065 - Single point of contact personal communication system: A computer/telephony integrated single-point-of-contact system (CISS) enabling a user to contact another using multiple devices with a single contact attempt is disclosed. A plurality of computer programs residing in a computer use a subscriber database, authorization database, priority list database, and device attributes database to determine how to respond to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080292066 - Telephone handset coupling system: A telephone handset that includes both a speaker and a secondary flux coil is provided. The secondary flux coil provides improved inductive coupling between the handset and a hearing aid. Due to the wiring configuration of the handset, the speaker and the secondary flux coil can be independently filtered, thus... Agent: Patent Law Office Of David G. Beck

20080292067 - Terminal equipment and method thereof: The present invention relates to a terminal for hard of-hearing and speech-disabled people and a character transmitting and receiving method using the same, in a mobile communication system that provides voice communication services using a mobile terminal, such as CDMA, and a system that provides voice communication services through a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080292068 - Device and method of machine management via a telecommunication network: configuring the ring-back tone server in such a way that a piece of equipment requesting the establishment of a communication link with said machine via said network receives in return in a ring-back tone a sound signal representative of the state indicated by means of said information signal.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080292069 - Ip handset-based voice mail notification: A system and method that notifies the receipt of a voicemail message at an IP telephone using one or more of instant messaging and short message service. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides an IP telephone that prepares a notification regarding the receipt of a voicemail message. In one... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080292070 - Call monitoring system: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of monitoring consumer calls placed to a business and conducted between a consumer and a business representative can comprise receiving a telephone call placed to a business from a consumer; directing the telephone call to a business representative for the business;... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080292071 - Method and system for non-traditional directory assistance: A directory assistance service includes a database and an interface module. The database stores a set of audio advertisements, and the audio advertisements are priced based on a tiered pricing model. The interface module is in communication with the database and receives a directory assistance request from a caller, plays... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080292073 - Network for telephony and data communication: A service outlet for coupling a data unit to a wired digital data signal and for coupling a service unit to an analog service signal, for use with a service wire pair installed in walls of a building, the service wire pair concurrently carrying a wired bi-directional digital data signal... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080292072 - Telecommunications data processing system and terminal and a method of operating it: A telecommunications data processing system comprising a terminal (T) adapted to send a telecommunications service request to a telecommunications infrastructure (IT1) associated with a data-storage infrastructure (IT2) for storing data (DE) about the utilization of the telecommunications service. The telecommunications terminal (T) includes means for producing service utilization data (DE),... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080292074 - Automatic routing of communications to user endpoints: A system may receive configuration information relating to forwarding of communications in a network from a first endpoint to other endpoints. Presence information may also be received for the endpoints. The presence information may include proximity information indicating whether pairs of the endpoints are in physical proximity to one another.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080292075 - Method and system for quoting, pricing and ordering telecommunications services: A method and system for quoting, pricing, configuring, and ordering telecommunications services is disclosed. The method includes the steps of allowing a purchaser of services to custom-configure the services through an interface with several relevant service characteristics and options. A purchaser may then input service configurations into a database-driven pricing... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080292076 - System and method for call hibernation: A call hibernation method may include releasing resources allocated to a first call between a calling party and a called party in response to a hibernate message from the called party. The hibernate message may indicate to hibernate the first call, and/or the hibernate message may include reestablishment information for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080292077 - Detection of spam/telemarketing phone campaigns with impersonated caller identities in converged networks: A method of detecting a campaign of unwanted telephone calls in a converged telephone network, including populating a first set of caller identifications where no call has been initiated to the caller identification during a predetermined period of time, populating a second set of caller identifications where a call has... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080292078 - Phone number identification apparatus and method of using the same: A phone number identification apparatus (100) includes a controlling module (10), a storage module (12), a calculating module (13) and a displaying module (14). The controlling module controls the receiving module, the storage module, the calculating module and the displaying module. The storage module is connected to the controlling module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080292079 - System and a method for processing presence status information with improved reliability: A method of processing the presence status of a user at at least one terminal connected to a telecommunications network on the basis of presence status information provided by at least one status source of said terminal. The presence status is weighted as a function of a pertinence value that... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080292080 - System and method for adding and associating users on contact addressbook: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow a service user to add other service users and non-users into the service user's address book based on contact telephone numbers. This method allows a first service user to be associated either automatically or through an invitation process with a second service user... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080292081 - Conference bridge with improved handling of control signaling during an ongoing conference: In an exemplary method audible signals from participants of a conference call during the ongoing conference call are processed by a conference bridge. An incoming audible signal on a first line from a first participant is detected during the conference call with a plurality of other conference call participants coupled... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080292082 - Communication terminal: An object of the present invention is to properly reflect user's intention changing in accordance with the watching condition so as to improve the convenience. A communication terminal according to the present invention includes a broadcast processing portion 200 that reproduces contents; a call processing portion 100, an answering machine... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080292084 - Apparatus for changing the behavior of an electronic device: A novel apparatus and method for changing the behavior of an electronic device is provided. In an embodiment, an electronic device includes the functionality of a cellular phone, a voice mail system and a calendar application. The device is configured to use the calendar application to determine whether to direct... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080292083 - Call interceptor: An apparatus for selectively allowing calls to a device, especially a facsimile machine, that may receive calls on a signal line. The apparatus detects an incoming call on the signal line and allows the incoming call to reach the device if received during an enabled time period but prevents the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080292085 - Method and apparatus for automatically rejecting unauthorized telephone calls: A data processing apparatus and method for determining whether an incoming telephone call originated from a number on a blacklist, and either hanging up on the call, or allowing the connected phone to ring through. A means of adding or deleting numbers simply with one touch of a button is... Agent: Thomas Pappas

20080292086 - Call programming apparatus and method: A method of routing incoming telephone calls and programming routing options and apparatus that allows incoming calls to be routed according to various criteria programmed by a subscriber.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080292087 - 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)

20080292088 - System and method for routing calls across call managers using a route plan: A call manager includes a first device process that controls a first telephony device and that receives a call request from the first telephony device. The call request includes a telephone number associated with a second telephony device. The call manager also includes a call control module that receives the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080292089 - Provision of telecommunication services: A device (1200) for concentration of unused subscriber lines in a telecommunications or data network comprising a first distribution matrix (104) connected to a crossover matrix (108) and a second distribution matrix (106) connected to said crossover matrix (108), wherein the crossover matrix (108) is adapted to be connected to... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080292090 - Provision of telecommunication services: A device (500) for switching-in and switching-off telecommunications or data services in a telecommunications or data network to a plurality of subscribers the device comprising a plurality of apparatuses (100, 504, 506, 508), wherein each of which comprises a first distribution matrix (104) connected to a crossover matrix (108) and... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080292091 - Method and system for establishing communications: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for establishing a communication between a first party and a second party, comprising: a data receiving subsystem for receiving from a third party details of the first and second party; and control logic for establishing a communication... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080292092 - System and method for telephone number normalization and denormalization: A method is disclosed that normalizes a telephone number from a number of input sources into standardized E.164 “+” format so that the telephone number can be represented in a consistent format relative to the user's own mobile number MSISDN and used uniformly across different functional components in a communications... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080292093 - Method and apparatus for echo cancellation: A technique of echo cancellation in a communication system. A method and/or apparatus of echo cancellation that may be suitable for performing echo cancellation under single talk and double talk conditions. A method and/or apparatus of echo cancellation that may significantly reduce a residual echo in a single talk environment... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20080292094 - Business telephone system voicemail circuit card with integrated audio output: A voicemail circuit card for use in a business telephone system is provided that includes internal memory and integrated audio outputs built into the card. Prerecorded audio files can be stored in the memory and output directly from the card to the business telephone system through the integrated audio outputs.... Agent: Mcnair Law Firm, P.A.

20080285726 - Ip voice call surveillance through use of non-dedicated ip phone with signal alert provided to indicate content of incoming call prior to an answer as being a monitored call: Surveillance of IP telephony may be performed through the use of conventional telephone equipment, according to principles of the invention while preventing giving indication to the monitored phone by alerting the user of the monitoring phone to such surveillance use prior to pick up by an agent for engagement of... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080285727 - Communications controller and protocol: A communications controller and protocol are provided for empowering the user of a communications device, such as a telephone or other device, to assume intelligent control of communications. The communications controller provides conditional processing of incoming communication from a plurality of conditions comprising at least an emergency condition and a... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080285728 - dynamically reconfigurable distributed interactive voice response system: The present invention is a computer system and method that manages connections between one or more data network interfaces and one or more phone interfaces. A manager process, running on a computer system having both data and phone network interfaces, receives one or more telephone calls from one or more... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080285729 - Communication modalities management: Apparatus, systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide for the management of communication modes to facilitate network communications. According to various embodiments described herein, any number of communication methods are categorized into communication modes and communication types. A party sending a communication may choose a method of communicating with a receiving... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080285730 - Mobile telephony: Data messages originally formatted for transmission over the cellular telecommunications network for generation of a display on a display unit of a cellular telephone, can instead be transmitted over the satellite network for display on the information and entertainment system of the aircraft by replacing the address information in the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080285731 - System and method for near-real-time voice messaging: A system and method for near-real-time messaging is provided. Users may transmit and receive recorded audio inputs in near-real-time using communications devices that are connectible to a network. The system and method also provides for optional speech-to-text translations and transmission of such text translations between communications devices.... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20080285733 - Systems and methods for analyzing telecommunications invoices for payment: A system and method for management and processing a plurality of types of telecommunication invoices at a user's site involving importing the plurality of types of telecommunication invoices to provide comparable telecommunication invoices and auditing the comparable telecommunication invoices by performing an automated reasonability test on the comparable telecommunication invoices.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080285732 - Prepaid telephony system and method of activating a prepaid telephony account: A prepaid telephony system and a method of activating a prepaid telephony account are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method of activating the prepaid telephony account includes providing a message to a caller including an offer to associate a prepaid account corresponding to a prepaid calling card with an... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080285734 - Arrangement for indicating presence of individual: When an entity (such as a customer using a communication device 131, 141, 151 . . . ) attempts to communicate with a target (such as an employee), an arrangement indicates to the customer, “status” information describing at least the employee's present and future ability to communicate with the entity... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080285735 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a call attempt triggered messaging service in a communications network: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a call attempt triggered messaging service in a communications network is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises intercepting a call signaling message including a calling party subscriber identifier and a called party subscriber identifier. A call attempt triggered message generation (CATMG)... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080285736 - Systems and methods for providing unified collaboration systems with conditional communication handling: A communication system provides integrated email, telephone and instant messenger communication including a common address book, a common log of communication history and shared presence information. A user can respond to a communication according to any format, email, telephone or instant messenger, with a response using the same format or... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080285737 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for point code proxying between signaling points: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for point code proxying. According to one method, a direct linkset interconnection between first and second signaling points is migrated to an interconnection including signaling message routing node. At the signaling message routing node, a point code of... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080285739 - Method and apparatus for multimedia interaction routing according to agent capacity sets: at least one instance of an information gathering routine for gathering and compiling information about the considered destinations; at least one reporting module for organizing and reporting the gathered information; and a processing module for computing values from the gathered information and selecting the best routing destination based on isolation... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080285738 - Method for intelligent and automated transmission of local context in converged signaling: Methods and systems are provided for associating contextual data with communication sessions, in particular in technical help desk scenarios. A context logger service running on a central server or on an individual computing device is used to create a log of application specific, often ephemeral, contextual data for a plurality... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080285740 - Method and apparatus for crosstalk estimation: A line card including: a co-channel estimator and a code selector. The line card is configured to couple to digital subscriber lines to support multi-tone modulation of communications channels thereon. The co-channel estimator is configured to estimate co-channel crosstalk coupling coefficients among selected pairs of the subscriber lines at levels... Agent: Ip Creators

20080285741 - Telephone interface circuit: A telephone interface circuit has a first transistor for opening and closing a connection between a speech circuit and a pair of subscriber lines, a second transistor for controlling ON/OFF states of the first transistor, and a positive feedback circuit for positively feeding back, to a base terminal of the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20080285742 - Foot-actuated call answer-end apparatus: A telephone headset system having a network interface device, a head set including a headphone and a microphone, and a foot operated, hands free call answering and call ending element. The network interface device, headset, and call answering and call ending element are electronically in communication with each other.... Agent: Plantronics, Inc.IPDepartment/legal

20080279343 - Telephone with emergency lighting feature: A telephone of the corded or portable type includes a light source. The light source may or may not have an ability to be pivoted or swiveled to illuminate a desired portion of a room. In the case of a corded telephone, the light source may be detachable from the... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080279344 - Emergency telephone system and method: An emergency telephone system has a dual mode, hybrid emergency telephone station connected with a central station through both a digital ethernet connection for digital VOIP communication and through a wire line for analog communication. Circuitry at the dual mode emergency station connects a user terminal with the digital ethernet... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080279345 - System and method for controlling devices at a location: A system and method for controlling, by an outside entity, one or more devices associated with a location. A representative embodiment of the system architecture comprises an internal computer system through which a device may be remotely controlled by the outside entity during a communication session between the outside entity... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080279346 - Communication apparatus and control method thereof: In a communication apparatus including a base unit provided with an answering machine function and a cordless handset wirelessly connected to the base unit, a wireless unit that communications with a setting unit that sets the answering machine function and the cordless handset requests the setting unit to set the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080279347 - Destination device billing according to call recipient: A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080279348 - System for providing telephonic voice response information related to items marked on physical documents: A system to telephonically access information related with items printed on a physical document. Items marked on the physical document or on any other physical surface is touched with a finger. The system includes a touch foil placed over (or under) the document, for reading the coordinates of selected marked... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080279349 - Media with embedded network services: A system and method for providing network services to a user of a computer capable of displaying Internet based media, such as sequential media, played by a media player in a display. The method includes the steps of providing a media object, wherein the media object contains sequential media and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080279351 - Systems and methods for providing real-time conversation using disparate communication devices: Systems and methods for providing real-time conversation among a plurality of disparate communication devices include receiving a first communication from a first communication device operating in a first communication mode, translating the first communication into a second communication that is suitable for processing by a second communication device operating in... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080279350 - Unified messenging system and method: Systems and methods for unified messaging are described herein. In an embodiment, a repository server includes a message store. According to one method implemented by the repository server, a voice message is sent as part of an email message. In an embodiment, preprocessing is performed before sending the email, including... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080279352 - Apparatus and method for a web programmable telephone: A web programmable telephone and a method for operating a web programmable telephone are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a voice module of a wireless household telephone is controlled by an internal web module that can retrieve and execute data operations from a remote portal or server... Agent: Michele Baillie

20080279353 - Method and system for profiling multi-channel consumers in a call center environment: A method of providing information related to a user's web browser session to an agent, while the agent is processing a call from the user, includes creating an association between a telephone number and the user's web browser session. The user employs the telephone number to place a telephone call.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080279354 - Routing outbound toll-free calls through a voip network: A method for routing a toll-free call through a network includes receiving a toll-free call from a call origination endpoint, determining an identifier associated with the call origination endpoint, determining a meet point trunk based on at least a portion of the identifier if a DAL is not available, and... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080279355 - Payment system and method for telephone services: The invention relates to a payment system for services provided by means of a telephone call, which uses payment means that differ from those associated with the call charge imposed by the telecommunications operator. The invention comprises means for validating the user's payment means and means for fixing rates and... Agent: Eagertech 21 S.l.

20080279356 - Systems for providing anonymous calling: A system of providing anonymous calling, the system comprising: a computer based system accepts a call request from the first user, having a first user ID and a first user plan, containing the second user ID, associated with a second user and destination phone number, and determines the registration status... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080279357 - Network and method for call management: A communications network for accessing a call management profile. The network includes a database storing the call management profile, a server in communication with the database for generating an interface document including the call management profile, and an AIN in communication with the server.... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080279358 - Apparatus and method for performing call connection in a communication system: A call connection method and apparatus in a communication system are provided, in which a call connection request message is received from each of first and second terminals, it is determined whether the first and second terminals are requesting a call connection to each other, one of the first and... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080279359 - System and method for restricting and monitoring telephone calls: Communications from a first communications address identified by a service user are controlled. Data of a communication from the first communications address to a third party communications address is received. The communication is disallowed when an identification number received from a party requesting the communication is not a personal identification... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080279360 - Method for migrating a network subscriber telephone connection, and a telephone network system: connecting the telephone connection to the second network system (N2), the method being characterized by setting a call forwarding function (CF) of the first network (N1) to forward incoming calls, calling the subscriber telephone number, to the telephone connection via the second network system (N2).... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080279361 - Communication apparatus and controlling method of the same: A communication apparatus having an abbreviated dialing function allowing input of a destination number with fewer key input operations and a method of controlling the communication apparatus capable of reducing the operations of inputting a destination number is disclosed. The communication apparatus includes an abbreviated dialing input unit for inputting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080279362 - Methods and systems for protecting a telecommunication service: A client of a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server is used to protect the ENUM server from a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The DoS attack may comprise a plurality of attempts to place exception calls from one or more end user devices that are unregistered. The one or more... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080279363 - Adaptive, self-learning optimization module for rule-based customer interaction systems: The invention relates to a call center system having automatic means for optimizing those rules that are enforced over interactions with customers, said system comprises: (a) an infrastructure which comprises a CRM module for at least handling the interactions with customers, and hardware means for at least maintaining the communication... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080279364 - Communication apparatus and remote control method used in communication system: According to one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a receiver which receives a Dual Tone Multi Frequency (DTMF) signal for specifying a control request is transmitted from a management apparatus, the control request including connection destination information for specifying a management apparatus, the management apparatus is connected to the public... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080279365 - Telecommunications interface: In order to provide unbalanced ringing when an exchange line card provides a balanced ringing output the interface provides a ringing detector in circuit with a customer pair. On detecting balanced ringing signals from the line card, the interface takes over the customer line pair and provides unbalanced ringing signals... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080279366 - Method and apparatus for automatically suppressing computer keyboard noises in audio telecommunication session: A communication system automatically mutes a microphone in response to a key event detected from a coupled keyboard to prevent delivery of noise generated by the keyboard to a far end of the communication session. A timer is initiated for a time period when the key event occurs, and the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080273669 - Emergency number integrated information assimilation device: An information transponding device in communication with an emergency number answering point, an ALI database and a remote storage device. The information transponding device receives ANI information from the emergency number answering point and accesses corresponding information in the ALI database and the remote storage device and assimilates the information... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080273670 - Video e911: E911 call routing technology that employs pseudo Automatic Number Indicators (pANI) is enhanced to provide video E911 services. Digital photos or video from a camera-equipped phone are associated with a pseudo Automatic Number Identification (pANI), e.g., an emergency service routing key (ESRK), or an emergency service query key (ESQK) in... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080273671 - Method, system and application server for preventing crosstalk of color ring back tone: A method and a system for preventing a crosstalk of color ring back tone are provided. When a plurality of entities in the network provide a color ring back tone service for a call simultaneously, an Application Server determines whether a ring back tone or prompt tone of a called... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080273672 - Automated attendant grammar tuning: A system provides speech-enabled automated attendant call processing. A database comprises words that are anticipated to be received in a voice input. Stored in relation to the words are actions to be taken upon receipt of a call comprising to particular words. A server receives a call, and after playing... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080273673 - Handling of telephone calls: A method of handling an incoming call from a first communication device addressed to a second communication device, the first and second communication devices being operative in a communication network, wherein the second communication device or the communication network comprises an answering unit. The answering unit includes a privacy data... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080273674 - Computer generated prompting: A method and apparatus for generating appropriate confirmatory prompts in a speech-enabled, interactive computer system. The method can be incorporated in an interactive voice response system that includes receiving an input audio stream over a voice channel from a users, performing keyword recognition on received input audio as subsequent input... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080273675 - Systems and methods for displaying voicemail transcriptions: A System, method and software product manages voicemail messages and associated voicemail transcription text on a communication device. A voicemail message notification for a voicemail message is received from a voicemail transcription service and stored in a voicemail list. A transcription text of the voicemail message is received from the... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080273676 - Method and system for providing interactive telephony sessions: A system and method are provided for an intermediate party to facilitate an interactive telephony session between a customer and a sender of a request for the session. The sender can provide the request to the intermediate party via electronic mail. The request includes the information to initiate the interactive... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080273677 - Method and system for communicating and displaying data with a voice call: A method of communicating information describing a voice call from a caller to a recipient comprises steps of obtaining call subject information describing the call and communicating the call subject information to the recipient to inform the recipient about the call. The call subject information can be presented as a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080273678 - Systems and methods for phone call management: A communication system includes client software operating on a PC, or similar platform, and a client telephone that is connected to a call routing server. A user manages telephone communication, including incoming and outgoing calls, conference calls and call forwarding, through the client software. The client software commands the call... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080273679 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing billing and usage data to downstream applications: It is an object of the presently disclosed subject matter to provide billing and usage data to downstream applications. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for acquiring billing and usage data in an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) environment. The method includes copying at least... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080273681 - Method and system for implementing ring back tone: A method for implementing a ring back tone, including: receiving, by a first Service Control Point, an intelligent service request triggered by a Service Switching Point, based on a call of a calling party; obtaining personal ring back tone information of a called party and/or group ring back tone information... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080273680 - System and method for network communication using alternative identifiers: A system for retrieving communication sequence of a destination such as, for example a phone number and executing a call from a user to the destination, said system comprises: a user's network device, a device-application that is installed within the network device, an operation center and a database. The operation... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080273682 - System and method for facilitating integration and management of service capabilities in a network environment: In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for facilitating discovery and integration of service capabilities available in a network environment via disparate service platforms. A query may be generated by a subscriber party towards a service integration node having functionality to integrate service features from a plurality of service platforms.... Agent: Danamraj & Emanuelson, P.C.

20080273683 - Device method and system for teleconferencing: Disclosed is a device, system and method for teleconferencing. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a teleconferencing system including a communication module adapted to transmit a digital data stream including data correlated to (e.g. representative of) a sound signal received by one or more microphones... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20080273684 - Systems and methods for rfid-based access management of electronic devices: Disclosed are systems and methods for preventing unauthorized persons from using an electronic device within a facility. In such an embodiment, the system may include a plurality of RFID tags each having unique identification information associated with a wearer of one of the RFID tags. This system may also include... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080273685 - Method and apparatus for searching phone number using figure recognition in portable terminal: A method and apparatus for searching a phone number using a figure recognition in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes mapping a specific figure to each phone number and storing the mapping result, receiving a specific figure from a user, searching a same figure as the received specific... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080273686 - Systems and methods for scalable hunt-group management: The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for semi-stateless scalable and distributed management of telephone hunt group features in a PBX. In particular, the invention conducts an auction-like phone call handling process in which phone handling decisions are partially delegated from a central resource to the individual client agents.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080273687 - System and method for providing customer activities while in queue: A system and method for providing customer activities while in queue allows for one or more customers to interact with one or more customer activities while waiting to speak with a live agent. The customers engage the customer activities while holding in a queue where the customer activities reduce the... Agent: Raman N. Dewan Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20080273688 - Phone computing machine (pcm): The present invention PCM (phone computing machine) uses general purpose programmable device (101) as its core. Line-end interface (201), includes RJ11 jack (210), DAA (212) and CODEC (214), connects to telephone line. User-end interface (301), in one embodiment includes RJ11 jack (310), SLIC (312) and CODEC (314) connects to user... Agent: Wei Lu

20080273689 - Tone advisor, a tone assisting system and a method of associating tones with callers: A tone advisor, a tone assisting system and a method of associating tones with callers. In one embodiment the method includes: (1) monitoring calls to and from a user, (2) obtaining information based on the calls and (3) categorizing a caller associated with at least one of the calls into... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20080273690 - Telecommunications module and an assembly including at least one telecommunications module: A telecommunications module (10) has at least two sides (12, 14), a first group of contacts (16) adapted to connect with POTS wires, a second group of contacts (18) adapted to connect with line wires, a third group of contacts (20) adapted to connect with DSLAM wires. The first group... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080273691 - Communication line interface: A communication cable interface having a plurality of interface input jacks, each interface input jack capable of receiving an input connector of a service provider communication cable. The interface has an interface output jack for outputting a plurality of service provider signals onto another communication cable and into a distribution... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080273692 - Telephone having multiple headset connection capability: A telephone including a base having a plurality of telephone headset connections, each of the headset connections for connecting a telephone headset to the telephone.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Princeton