Telephonic communications inventions 12/08

20080317217 - System and method for determining and optimizing resources of a data processing system utilized by a service request: A computer-implemented method for determining resources utilized by a service request in a data processing system. The method includes determining monitored relationship types from monitoring data, determining relationship domains, determining intra-domain relationships from relationships that are internal to the relationship domains and determining cross-domain relationships from the intra-domain relationships that... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080317218 - Emergency responder credentialing system and method: A system for collecting, verifying, and managing identity data, skill data, qualification data, certification data, and licensure data of emergency responders. The system trusted verification of identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure, and disseminates information specific or related to identity, skills, qualifications, certifications, and licensure at the scene of an... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20080317219 - Method and apparatus for context based voice dialing: A telecommunications device including an address book including a plurality of entries of party names and addresses, the entries including user-defined party contexts; a voice recognition unit configured to receive user input, the user input including names, numbers, and contexts of address book entries; a user context control agent configured... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080317220 - System and method for encrypting interactive voice response application information: Encrypting sensitive information sent using an interactive voice response (IVR) system. The systems and methods may include an HSM that provides a secure platform to encrypt the sensitive information. They may also include interfaces with IVR systems and transaction processing hosts. The systems and methods may interact directly with a... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080317221 - Apparatus, system and method for monitoring a call forwarded to a network-based voice mail system: An apparatus, system and method for monitoring calls that have been forwarded to a network-based voice mail system (VMS). The VMS receives the forwarded call and sends a start of greeting signal at the beginning and an end of greeting signal at the completion of the voice message greeting to... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080317222 - Cross-media voice mail notification and delivery: The subject mater herein relates to voice mail systems and, more particularly, cross-media voice mail notification and delivery. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures that operate to, or facilitate, dispatching of voice mail notification messages to voice mailbox owners. In some embodiments, the notifications are... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080317223 - Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receives a communication from an originating party, with the communication intended for a receiving party. A database of pre-created messages is accessed, with the database storing a pre-created message having a common association between the receiving party and... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080317224 - Method and system for the mass sending of messages: The present publication discloses a method and system for sending messages in a telecommunications network (1, 2, 6, 11, 12), in which method digital messages (40) which contain information on the desired reply address (32) are mass sent (3), and messages, which are sent on the basis of the reply-address... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080317225 - Communicating modem or multimedia terminal adapter status to a handset for a cordless telephone: A cordless telephone system provides indication of event information for customer premises equipment. The cordless telephone system includes a base station and handsets. The base station receives event information from the CPE. The base station transmits the event information to a handset, and the handset provides an indication of the... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080317226 - Handheld device for transmitting a visual format message: A handset has a receiver that receives a voice message from an operator of the handset. An identification circuit identifies a portion of the voice message that occurs between a first point in time and a second point in time during the voice message. An audio processing circuit converts the... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080317228 - Message recall using digital rights management: Email messages are recalled in accordance with restrictions attached to the message. Use of the message is limited per the restrictions. Example restrictions include printing restrictions, forwarding restrictions, exporting restrictions, copying restrictions, reading restrictions, and a expiration time of the message.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080317227 - Method and apparatus for registering multiple phone numbers associated with a frequently called party: The present invention enables the calling party to register multiple addresses of frequently called parties with a packet-switched network service provider, e.g., a VoIP network service provider, and have the network dials through the numbers on behalf of the calling party until the called party is reached or the list... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080317229 - Method of and system for adaptive call filtering: A method of and system for filtering telephone calls receives a call to a called party from a caller and determines if the called party has an event scheduled. If the called party has an event scheduled, the system determines if the caller is associated with the event. The system... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080317231 - Managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles: Methods are provided for managing hierarchically organized subscriber profiles. According to one embodiment, subscriber services are modified without requiring a change to the subscriber's first-level profile identifier and without requiring the subscriber to reestablish a connection with the service provider. A database of hierarchically organized profile identifiers, including multiple lower-level... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080317230 - Method and system to use feature profiles call-by-call in telecommunication call handling: A method allowing a subscriber to use call handling features on a call by call basis defines a plurality of feature profiles, each including a number of call handling features. The method stores the feature profiles either in a customer premises equipment or in a related switch, and activates one... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080317233 - Method of setting up a call-back: The invention concerns a method of setting up a call-back (305, 315) to a caller (32) in a packet-based telecommunications network, and a terminal and a media server (31) to execute this method. The call-back (305, 315) is initiated by a user (30) receiving a media stream (311, 312, 316).... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080317232 - System and method for automatic call back using availability information: A system and method are provided for controlling execution of a call back to a called party, comprising determining availability status of the called party, evaluating compatibility of the availability status with initiating call back to the called party, and in the event the availability status is compatible with call... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20080317234 - System and method for avoiding hold times on a telephone call: A method and system including receiving a communication from a source, the communication including a request to connect to a destination, connecting, via a communication link, to the destination, detecting an event on the communication link to the destination, and connecting the source to the destination after detecting the event.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080317236 - Method and apparatus for selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number: A system for (and a method of) selectively establishing communication with one of plural devices associated with a single telephone number is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the system includes a wireless connect unit connected between an enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) network and a public switched telephone network. The... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080317235 - Telephone system: A telephone and voice mail (voice processing) system is implemented using only a single processing means for controlling operations of both the telephone system and the voice mail system. The single processing means communicates with a hard disk, which stores programs for running the various operations of the system, voice... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080317238 - Distributed media resources in voip networks for providing services: VoIP networks and methods are disclosed for distributing media resources in a VoIP network for providing services. VoIP endpoints, media gateways, and/or other network nodes in the VoIP network report available media resources (i.e., available processing capacity) that are able to provide services, such as providing announcements, DTMF digit collection,... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20080317237 - Network configuration and routing: A system may install a trunk between a first switch and an end office, where the trunk is a trunk home for the end office. The system may further identify Numeric Numbering exchanges (NXXs) that home to the end office. Traffic for at least one of the identified NXXs is... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080317239 - Systems and arrangements for communicating with an automated interactive telecommunications service system: In one embodiment a method for accessing and interacting with an interactive telecommunications service system is disclosed. The method can include activating a programming mode, entering a plurality of keystrokes to create a keyed sequence where the keyed sequence can include a telephone number and a menu response sequence. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080317240 - Alpha character support and translation in dialer: The innovation supports the ability to map alpha characters entered directly into the dialer application of a smartphone. These alpha characters can be entered via a smartphone keyboard (e.g., QWERTY keyboard) and converted to the appropriate digits as mapped to a conventional telephone keypad. The resultant numerical digits can be... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080317241 - Code-based echo cancellation: An apparatus for canceling a signal is disclosed. The apparatus may include an identification code (ID code) generator configured to generate an ID code. The apparatus may also include an ID code injector configured to inject the ID code into at least one of the signal and a processed signal... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20080310599 - System and method for indicating emergency call back to user equipment: A method is provided for indicating an IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) emergency call back to a user equipment and an access network. The method comprises including in a message from a PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) to the user equipment and the access network an indication that the emergency... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080310600 - Diagnostic and intervention tools for emergency medical dispatch: A system and method assists an emergency medical dispatcher in responding to emergency calls. A computer implemented emergency medical dispatch protocol includes interrogatories for a dispatcher to ask a caller to generate an appropriate response. A diagnostic tool is provided to determine a vital sign of a patient based on... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080310601 - Voice barge-in in telephony speech recognition: An interactive voice response system is described that supports full duplex data transfer to enable the playing of a voice prompt to a user of telephony system while the system listens for voice barge-in from the user. The system includes a speech detection module that may utilize various criteria such... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080310602 - Messaging with a locked communication device: A communication device supports leaving a message using a communication device input interface when the device is in a locked state. The communication device may be a network telephone having a display interface and a user input interface. The communication device may be configured to transition to a locked state,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080310603 - System and method for management of call data using a vector based model and relational data structure: A system and method for representing call content in a searchable database includes transcribing call content to text. The call content is projected to vector space, by creating a vector by indexing the call based on the content and determining a similarity of the call to an atomic-class dictionary. The... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080310604 - Systems and methods to selectively provide telephonic connections: Methods and apparatuses to selectively provide communication connections based on an automated procedure to test whether a caller is a human or a machine. One embodiment includes: receiving at a connection server a telephone call from a caller; presenting a message to the caller in response to the telephone call;... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080310605 - Call connection system & method: A method for establishing a communication connection between a first communication device and a second communication device, the method comprising requesting contact information for a second communication device, during a first communication connection established between a first communication device and a third communication device; receiving the contact information from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080310606 - Communication assistance system and method: A communication assistance system provides access to information corresponding to a plurality of subscribers. The system includes a means for receiving incoming communications from a plurality of requesters desiring to access the information corresponding to subscribers and a database directory listing storing information corresponding to each one of the subscribers.... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080310607 - Presence based dtmf signaling enablement of voice communication controller and method: A voice communication controller (e.g., private branch exchange (PBX)) is described herein which can automatically enable an outbound dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) feature for one of it's extensions that is attached to a phone which belongs to a user while that user is or is likely to be participating in... Agent: Alcatel Lucent Intellectual Property & Standards

20080310608 - Credit based management of telecommunication activity: An apparatus for allowing a telecommunication service provider to manage the risk that a subscriber will not pay their bill for use of the provider's telecommunication system comprising interface means, operating within a digital computer, for communicating information relating to a particular subscriber, said interface means includes a first portion... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080310609 - Distributed cabin interphone system for a vehicle: In one aspect, cabin interphone handsets and passenger announcement speakers in the cabin of a vehicle communicate over an internet protocol data network. Each handset of the system has an internet protocol presence and each passenger announcement speaker of the system has an internet protocol presence. Each handset includes announcement... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080310610 - Method of remotely changing operating characteristics of a communications device: The present invention relates to a method of remotely changing operating characteristics of a communications device selected for signalling an incoming message or call to a user. To allow signalling an urgent incoming message or call to a user even if the device to be called is in a mute... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080310611 - Control system of communication network: A call control means for setting and managing a physical and logical transmission path between communication terminals, a session management means for managing establishment of data communication between the communication terminals, and a switching request processing means for controlling interruption and resumption of a session are provided, wherein the switching... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080310612 - System, method and device supporting delivery of device-specific data objects: A technique for supporting delivery of a data object used to alert a called party to a call from a calling party is described. The technique comprises receiving a call setup request from a calling communication device associated with the calling party. Next, a call setup is initiated with one... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20080310613 - Advanced intelligent single telephone number routing: Communications are routed in a communications network based on a location of a requesting party. A communication from the requesting party is received. A location of the requesting party is determined using a geographic address which defines the smallest of two of a set of multiple geographic areas defined by... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080310614 - Methods, systems, and products for billing calls: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for routing a communication. An identifier of an origination point of the communication is received. A destination point associated with a destination of the communication is determined. The origination point and the destination point are analyzed to determine whether the communication may be entirely... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080310615 - Voice caller id: An apparatus and method for audibly annunciating at a device information transmitted over a telephone network. The information is transmitted in the form of a modulated signal to the device wherein the modulated signal is representative of the information. The apparatus includes a receiver for capturing a ring signal and... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20080310616 - Method and system for subscriber line interface circuit: A subscriber line interface circuit apparatus includes a linefeed circuit and a subscriber line control circuit (SLCC). In an embodiment, the linefeed circuit includes a signal conversion circuit which provides a differential mode signal and a common mode signal in response to at least a tip signal and a ring... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080310617 - Transmission links: A device is provided for measuring properties of transmission links by an adaptive filter. The device comprises a first output terminal adapted to provide a first signal to the transmission link. Further, the device includes a first input terminal for receiving an echo signal of the first signal. An adaptive... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20080310618 - Telephone handset for a broadband telecommunication system: A telephone handset for a broadband telecommunication system, whose housing is composed of an upper shell and a lower shell forming a joining edge, shall guarantee a reliable coupling of the resonance volume to the free field with a particularly low sound leakage. For this purpose, the joining edge is... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080304627 - Communication terminal apparatus and signal processing method thereof: Communication terminal apparatuses and methods can detect and/or adjust a signal characteristic. The communication terminal may include a controller to compare a signal characteristic of a received test signal with a prescribed reference signal characteristic, and output a result of the comparison or adjust a signal characteristic for a subsequent... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080304628 - System and method for citizen requests for assistance: A method and system for initiating an incident-specific request for assistance from a citizen call station by touching a sequence of positions on a display screen. The citizen call station comprises a display having a touch-responsive mechanism for entering a call sequence of statements including initiating an alert, reporting a... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20080304630 - Automatic emergency call notification to pre-designated personal emergency contacts: Automatic notification is provided to pre-designated emergency contacts for a given wireless subscriber upon the occurrence of an emergency call from the subscriber. Triggering for the automatic notification may take place at an appropriate time in the emergency call, e.g., at a time the emergency call is received, at a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080304631 - Ip-based call answering point selection and routing: An apparatus and a method for IP-based call answering point selection and routing. When an IP-based call is placed to an answering point such as, for example, a Public Safety Answering Point a location for the caller can not be determined using traditional DNIS and ANI based techniques. In the... Agent: Vincent Patent Agency

20080304629 - Method and system for preventing emergency communication system notification congestion: The invention discloses a method and system for preventing emergency communication system notification congestion by automatically identifying the telecommunications site transmitting an emergency call or through reporting of an address from which the call is made.... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20080304632 - System and method for obtaining in-use statistics for voice applications in interactive voice response systems: Systems and methods are provided for obtaining statistics from the use of a voice application. More particularly, the invention may comprise an interception engine that is configured to receive a document from an IVR application server and inject a marker(s) into the document, and pass the document on to an... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080304633 - Method for operating a voice mail system: A method for operating a voice mail system connected to a telecommunication system, having a recorder with a message storage connected thereto, shall enable a particularly flexible use of a speech message stored in the voice mail system. For this purpose, according to the invention, a speech message collected by... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080304634 - Voice mail notification using instant messaging: A system and method that notifies a voice mailbox subscriber of the receipt of a message at a voicemail server using instant messaging. A preferred embodiment of the invention includes an enhanced notification server that receives a notification of the message from the voicemail server, queries the availability of an... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Intellecutal Property I, L.p.

20080304636 - System and method for providing telephonic access to an audio stream: System for providing telephonic access to an audio stream comprises an audio transmitting apparatus for transmitting the audio stream from its audio source output to a telephone network, and providing more and more control signals for operating more and more audio source controls. A system for providing telephonic access to... Agent: John F.a. Earley Iii Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey

20080304635 - User interface architecture and protocol for rich client controlled voicemail: Systems and methods that control a voice mail experience from a client side of a voice mail server system and enhance features thereof. A dynamic voice mail user interface can change based on what predetermined activity the user engages in. Moreover, a field component further enables a caller to identify... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080304637 - Method and system for providing intelligent call rejection and call rollover in a telephony network: A system and method may include receiving a call connection request associated with a calling device over a telephony network, the call connection request requesting establishment of a telephone call. The system and method may further include presenting a plurality of call rejection options, each of the plurality of call... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080304638 - System and method for delivering targeted promotional announcements over a telecommunications network based on financial instrument consumer data: A method for delivering an announcement in a telecommunications system comprising: receiving a message including an identity of a calling party; retrieving a customer profile associated with the calling party, wherein the customer profile includes information derived from a financial account associated with the calling party; receiving from the calling... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20080304639 - System and method for communicating with interactive service systems: An interaction system is described, which can reside on a cellular phone, a personal data assistant (PDA), a laptop computer, or any general purpose computing device. The interaction system provides a greatly simplified user interface for communication with interactive service systems. The interaction system builds the user interface by interpreting... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080304641 - Apparatus for citizen requests for assistance: A method and system for initiating an incident-specific request for assistance from a citizen call station by touching a sequence of positions on a display screen. The citizen call station comprises a display having a touch-responsive mechanism for entering a call sequence of statements including initiating an alert, reporting a... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20080304640 - Telephone with rfid monitoring and control: An RFID telephone system that includes an RFID reader that reads RFID tags contained on wristbands worn by inmates. The system uses the RFID reader to monitor and control telephone calls conducted over the inmate telephone, including the creation of records associating each telephone call with a particular inmate identifier... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20080304642 - Phone communication controlling method: According to an aspect of the embodiment provides a communication terminal for communicating in a network. The terminal receives from another communication terminal a request includes an obscured call information for obscuring an identification information. The communication terminal obscures the identification information after receiving the request.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080304643 - Telecommunication call management and monitoring system: A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080304644 - Telecommunications service management: A method of processing service information relating to a plurality of user services available in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The method includes storing entities defining service components in a service information database, where each service component entity represents a distinct aspect of service functionality which can be provided by... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080304646 - Conference call setup automation: The present invention automatically establishes a connection to each participant of a teleconference. Conference call set up and connect information may be provisioned in a variety of ways, including via a menu-based Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) mechanism and via a form or formatted file sent from a subscriber. Additionally,... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080304645 - Server based conference call volume management: A method for automatically adjusting the volume of individual conference call participants during a conference call. The present invention comprises a Configuration Program (CP) and a Volume Adjustment Program (VAP). The CP allows a user to configure the automatic volume adjustment options. The VAP continuously monitors the conference call and... Agent: Rudolf. O Siegesmund Gordon & Sees, LLP

20080304647 - Method and apparatus for identifier change notification: When receiving an incoming call to the previous phone number, adequacy of notification is determined on the basis of history data relating to a caller number and a previous phone number. The method includes: acquiring a caller number and a destination number upon receipt of a request for connecting to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080304648 - Context identifying aspects: One aspect relates to attempting to establish a communication with at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable communication device based at least in part on an at least one context designated destination relating at least partially to at least one context of the at least one identifiable person and/or identifiable... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080304649 - Customer relationship management for customer service requests: Information is shared between an agent and a user. Information for a communications service is provided to the user. Information for a related service that relates to the communications service is retrieved. The related service is described to the user. The related service is activated for the user when the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080304650 - System and method for automatic call flow detection: A method and exploration engine for automatically detecting a call flow path of a voice application having a plurality of dialog states, the method comprising the steps of: identifying, in an automated manner, the plurality of dialog states of the voice application through execution of the voice application; and identifying... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080304652 - System and method for amplifying attenuated dtmf signals in a packet based network: A network interface device may include an I/O unit configured to receive data packets from a packet network. A processing unit may be in communication with the I/O unit and be configured to identify data packets including data representative of DTMF signals, convert the data in the data packets into... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080304651 - System and method for overcoming dual tone multi frequency (dtmf) signal attenuation in analog and packet based networks: A telephone may include a transmitter configured to transmit signals over a network a receiver configured to receive signals from the network a DTMF signal generator configured to generate DTMF signals, a DTMF gain adjustment module, and an amplifier module in communication with the DTMF signal generator and the DTMF... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080304653 - Acoustic echo cancellation solution for video conferencing: Echo cancellation for audio/video conferencing uses an inaudible tone added at an originating conference site to the transmitted voice signal, for echo cancellation. The tone, upon receipt with the voice signal at a remote conferencing site and retransmission back to the originating site, is used to determine both the round... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080304654 - Method and system for clear signal capture: A method and system for clear signal capture comprehend several individual aspects that address specific problems in improved ways. In addition, the method and system also comprehend a hands-free implementation that is a practical solution to a very complex problem. Individual aspects comprehended related to echo and noise reduction, and... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080304655 - Interruption device for a data communication line: An interruption device arranged in a communication line including first and second cables in series, each including a first group of wires for the transmission of computer data and a second group of wires independent of the computer data, includes: a box provided with first and second input/output sockets with... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080304656 - Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (dsl) communication systems and methods to use the same: Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a splitter to separate a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal from a plain old telephone signal (POTS) signal, and a switch to selectively couple a VoIP signal received... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080298555 - Systems and methods for loop length estimation based on per-port calibration: Systems and methods for performing loop length estimation are described. One embodiment includes a method which comprises receiving an echo signal for a loop under test where the echo signal is a per-port calibrated echo response obtained using frequency domain reflectometry single-ended line testing (FDR-SELT). The method further comprises analyzing... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20080298556 - Hearing aid-compatible cordless telephone with corded handset: A cordless telephone for use with a hearing aid includes an induction coil in a handset. The handset is electrically and mechanically connected to a platform or base for the handset such that the handset platform and handset are not farther from each other than the length of the cord... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080298557 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing comprehensive facsimile information within a voice mail system: A method, system, and storage medium for providing comprehensive facsimile information within a voicemail system are disclosed. The method includes receiving a facsimile at a voicemail system, storing the facsimile in a recipient voice mailbox, and interpreting elements of the facsimile. The interpreting is performed by optical character recognition software.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080298559 - Calling party's language selection based on called party's phone number: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a geographic location of a called party based on a phone number of the called party, entered by a calling party, and prompting the calling party with at least one spoken language based on the geographic location of the called party.... Agent: Intellevate

20080298558 - System and method for caller identification voice announce: A system and method for a caller identification voice announce. The caller identification voice announce is associated with a calling party. An identifier of an incoming calls is translated to the associated caller identification voice announce. The caller identification voice announce associated with the calling party is played in response... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080298560 - Apparatus system and method for web-based phone services: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing web-based phone services. Phone calls are initiated by a user control on a web page. A calling module uniquely identifies the telephone call and initiates calling by a dialer. Once the telephone call is established, auxiliary functions such as call monitoring,... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080298561 - Web-call method:

20080298562 - Voice aware demographic personalization: A voice interaction system is configured to analyze an utterance and identify inherent attributes that are indicative of a demographic characteristic of the system user that spoke the utterance. The system then selects and presents a personalized response to the user, the response being selected based at least in part... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080298563 - System and method for pre-call messaging: A system and method for playing pre-call messages. User input is received to record a pre-call message for one or more intended recipients in anticipation of an incoming call from the one or more intended recipient. The pre-call message is associated with an identifier of the one or more intended... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080298564 - System and method for quick note messaging: A system and method for quick note messaging on a wireless device. A message prompt is issued indicating a caller may leave a quick note message during a ring back period. A recording alert is played in response to receiving a caller selection to record the quick note message. The... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080298566 - Integrated chat client with receiving party choice: Phone systems for an integrated chat client service are provided. A representative phone system includes a call processing system operable to check a chat server for accessibility of a calling party chat client associated with a calling party and coupled to the internet, the call processing system being further operable... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Intellecutal Property I, L.p.

20080298565 - Internet-based method for alerting an individual with an unlisted telephone number that an acquaintance wishes to contact that individual: An Internet-based method for alerting an individual with an unlisted telephone number that an acquaintance wishes to contact that individual, including the steps of: establishing, by a webmaster, a website having an administrator; registering, by the individual with the unlisted telephone number, the unlisted telephone number of the individual on... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080298567 - Web based telephone management system: Technology that implements an integrated and automated process for delivery of low cost web based telephone management services, as an outsourced solution in the arena of voice management. The services are provided via the internet, from a web site, after installation in the customer premises the service can be rendered... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080298568 - Hosted system monitoring service: A method and apparatus for providing a system monitoring service to customers. The method may include identifying a new customer based on data received from a reseller, storing data pertaining to this customer in a database, and registering the customer with a system monitoring service. The method may further include... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080298569 - Prepaid negative balance fee processing and fee diversion: Systems and methods are provided for a prepaid credit card processing system wherein components or entities such as the acquirer, issuer, or prepaid card processing network can dynamically determine, at the time of the transaction, whether a credit card transaction will be allowed—even where the fee associated with the transaction... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080298570 - Caller id information transmitting and receiving apparatus and method thereof: A caller ID information transmitting and receiving apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least the caller ID information generating module, a communication module and a caller ID information broadcasting module. The caller ID information generating module generates a caller ID information, and the communication module transmits... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080298571 - Residential video communication system: A video communication system and method for operating a video communication system are provided. The video communication system has a video communication device, having an image display device and at least one image capture device, wherein the at least one image capture device acquires video images of a local environment... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080298572 - System and method for remote home monitoring and intercom communication: A system and method for remote home monitoring and intercom communication. An indicator is received for activating an interactive feature of a telephone. A determination is made whether the indicator authorizes the interactive feature. The audio interface of the telephone is activated.... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080298573 - System, apparatus and methods for comparing fraud parameters for application during prepaid card enrollment and transactions: An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is for comparing a set of production fraud parameters with one or more sets of test or proposed fraud parameters run against prepaid card production data in a prepaid card analysis. The apparatus may include a system for uploading a set of production fraud... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20080298574 - System and method for real-time blocking of a telephone call: A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a call blocking service to which a user subscribes. The preferred call blocking service includes maintaining an updateable list of calling parties that the user wishes to block from being able to complete telephone calls to the user, maintaining a buffer for... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Intellecutal Property I, L.p.

20080298575 - System and method for incremental do-not-disturb: A system and method for incremental do-not-disturb. User input is received to activate the incremental do-not-disturb. The incremental do-not-disturb is activated for a time period in response to receiving the user input to activate the incremental do-not-disturb. The incoming calls are diverted during the time period in response to activating... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080298576 - Communication system, communication control unit, communication control method. communication control program and monitoring unit: A communication system 100 connects a plurality of terminals and the communication control unit 101 via a network 110. A group information table 203 of the communication control unit 101 has a that stores identification information of terminal belonging to a group capable of refusing receipts of information transmitted from... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080298577 - Method and system for processing communication signals in a communication system: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for processing communication signals in a telephony or communication system. In various embodiments, the method or the apparatus comprises identifying a first signal which comprises an incoming communication signal and a feedback signal, controlling a logic for cancelling or suppressing a feedback effect... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080298578 - Wireless headset apparatus and mehtods: A wireless headphone device has a first elongate portion having first and second opposite ends with an attachment interface at the first end, the first portion comprising an on-board power supply and a transceiver with functional circuitry, and a second elongate portion coupled pivotally to the first portion at the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc