Telephonic communications inventions 03/09

20090080622 - Voicemail notification: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for voicemail notification. In one embodiment, a method includes submitting an extension call request to a telephony system, wherein the extension call request identifies a recipient extension. The method also includes receiving a return message from the telephony system in... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090080623 - Service for providing speaker voice metrics: A method of providing voice metrics over an established telephone call between a user and a subscriber can include receiving voice information from the user over the call and determining biometric information from the voice information for the user. The method further can include encoding the biometric metric information and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090080624 - System and method for rules-based caller id notification: A method for caller identification notification, including determining caller identification information associated with a telephone call to a first device. The method further includes sending a notification to a second device when the caller identification information matches a user defined list of caller identification information.... Agent: At&t Legal Department, Attn: Patent Docketing

20090080625 - Communication terminal apparatus: A communication terminal apparatus is provided capable of preventing a misunderstanding that the external attachment telephone is hooked up, so that the external attachment telephone can be correctly shifted to a receiving mode. In the apparatus, a ring signal detecting section detects a ring signal sent by a line exchange... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090080626 - Enhanced telecommunication signal insertion systems and methods: An enhanced telecommunication signal insertion system includes a first connection block field including a plurality of switches configured to be coupled to an enhanced signal source and a second connection block field including a plurality of normally closed switches configured to connect respective pairs of tip and ring lines from... Agent: Marguerite E. Gerstner Tyco Electronics Corporation/ip Law Dept.

20090080627 - Billing method and system, and billing server: This invention relates to the field of communication technology, and provides a billing method and system, and a billing server. The method includes: generating, by a PBX, billing ticket information and reporting the billing ticket information to a billing server when an incoming call from an external user to an... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090080628 - Methods, systems, and products for alerting of calls: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for alerting of a call. A message is received that notifies of a call to a called number having an established connection to a data network. A customer-selected style and a customer-selected location of a control is retrieved that responds to the customer's action.... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090080629 - System and method for controlling free phone calls through an institutional phone system: A method of controlling free phone calls placed from within a secured premises through an institutional phone system generally includes assigning a unique access identifier to an individual caller upon entry into the secured premises; receiving a destination number from the individual caller within the secured premises, the destination number... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20090080630 - Local routing management in a telecommunications network: An embodiment of a method includes determining a customer service plan identifier from information associated with a received call, determining a route plan associated with the identified customer service plan, and routing the call on a trunk group identified in the determined route plan. The method may further include determining... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090080631 - Method, apparatus and communication system for renting telephone number: A method for renting a telephone number includes: receiving the request for renting a telephone number sent by the request user through the host number; selecting at least one telephone number as the rented number of the request user according to the request; binding the rented number with the host... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090080633 - Method, apparatus and system for implementing conference service: The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus and a system for implementing the conference service. The method includes: a conference initiator sends a conference operation message that carries conference information which includes conference initiator information and information of at least one conference participant, or includes information of more than... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090080632 - Spatial audio conferencing: Audio in an audio conference is spatialized using either virtual sound-source positioning or sound-field capture. A spatial audio conference is provided between a local and remote parties using audio conferencing devices (ACDs) interconnected by a network. Each ACD captures spatial audio information from the local party, generates either one, or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090080634 - Telephone and incoming call notification method for telephone: A telephone and an incoming call notification method for the telephone in which telephone book data can be used to sound an incoming call sound of a specified date such as a birthday for a specific caller. When an incoming call to the mobile telephone of the present invention arrives... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090080635 - Systems and methods to connect members of a social network for real time communication: Methods and apparatuses to provide telephonic connections to members of a social network. One embodiment includes: identifying a first member connected to a second member in a social network; determining whether profile data of the first member of the social network includes a telephonic reference of the first member; presenting... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090080636 - System and method for facilitating privacy in directory assistance communications: A method for providing directory assistance, including receiving at least one request from a requester for an un-listed contact information, where the un-listed contact information is stored in one of a plurality of carrier databases. A request is generated to a third party for the un-listed contact information, where the... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090080637 - Dialing plan removal: A request to delete a dialing plan is received. A list is generated of switching modules that are connected to a central processor of a telephone switch. Each switching module is queried to determine if the switching module includes a copy of the dialing plan. It is determined whether the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090080638 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing message flow control between applications in a telecommunications signaling message routing platform having a distributed internal processing architecture: Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing message flow control in a signal transfer point are described. One method includes receiving, at a source card in a signaling message routing platform having a distributed internal processing architecture, a message requiring a service. The method also includes maintaining, on the... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090080639 - Call volume based ivr call duration and port adjustment: A method, system and computer-readable medium are disclosed for adjusting port usage and call duration in an interactive voice response (IVR) system based on changes in call volume. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring usage of one or more ports within an IVR system. A determination is made whether... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090080640 - System and method for retaining calls into a call center: A system and method for retaining calls info a call center is provided. A multiplicity of calls is received into a call center. The nature of each call is determined and the calls are temporarily saved. One or more of the saved calls is retained by performing a plurality of... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090080641 - Method and system for automatically generating flow charts of call flow programs: A method and system automatically generates flow charts of call flow programs used in a call center based on information about the call flow program and other telephone system resources collected from the call center. Such collected information includes automatic call distributor (ACD) programming. The method and system generate the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090080642 - Enterprise-distributed noise management: A method is disclosed that enables the managing of the overall sound level in an enterprise environment where telephones are used. A data-processing system such as a private branch exchange monitors whether one or more telephones are in use. Based on detecting when a first endpoint is in use and,... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090080643 - Telephone system having reduced sensitivity to rf interference and related methods: A telephone to be connected to a wireline having reduced sensitivity to RE interference over a predetermined frequency range from an adjacent mobile wireless communications device may include a transmit amplifier, a receive amplifier, an audio input transducer connected to the transmit amplifier, and an audio output transducer connected to... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090080644 - Signal processing: The present invention relates to detection of echo in telecommunications networks. The invention provides a method of echo detection comprising the steps of: generating a series of inbound vectors for an inbound signal; generating a series of outbound vectors for an outbound signal; repeating a predetermined number of comparison steps... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090074153 - Digital subscriber line (dsl) diagnostic tools and methods to use the same: Digital subscriber line (DSL) diagnostic tools and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example DSL diagnostic tool comprises a data collector to automatically collect real-time performance data associated with a subscriber, a database interface module to automatically collect historical data associated with the subscriber and to collect performance... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090074154 - Measuring system and method: A measuring system comprises a pulse generator, an under test device, a variable resistor and a detecting control system. The pulse generator provides pulse signals with different voltage peaks to the under test device and the variable resistor. The variable resistor adjusts its resistance value according to a control signal.... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090074155 - Methods and apparatus to test a subscriber line for a broadband access service: Methods and apparatus to test a subscriber line for a broadband access service are disclosed. An example network interface device (NID) comprises a tone generator to transmit a tone on a subscriber line to characterize the subscriber line while a DSL modem is providing a DSL service via the subscriber... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090074156 - Methods and apparatus for call surveillance in internet protocol communication networks: Methods and apparatus for call surveillance in Internet protocol communication networks are disclosed. An example method to perform call surveillance in a communication network disclosed herein comprises determining an overall path delay measurement associated with using a first media server to perform surveillance of a call between a first user... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Attn. Patent Docketing

20090074157 - Speech recognition system for electronic switches in a non-wireline communications network: Voice activated dialing is described for use in a mobile telecommunications system. A voice input is received from a wireless network user. A telephone number to be dialed is determined by using speaker independent speech recognition to interpret a string of spoken digits in the voice input to determine the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090074158 - Method for designing an automated speech recognition (asr) interface for a customer call center: A method of designing a customer interface for a service center, such as an automated speech recognition (ASR) self-service center. Customer activity to an existing service center is monitored, providing customer model, which includes a collection of customer tasks. These tasks are assigned to action-object pairs, which are further assigned... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090074159 - Messaging and application system integration: A system includes receiving a voicemail data object at a business application system. The voicemail data object is associated with a voicemail originated from a caller, and includes a caller identifier identifying the caller that originated the voicemail. The voicemail data object is automatically associated with an entity data object... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090074160 - Private branch exchange: A private branch exchange (PBX) capable of transmitting and receiving an E-mail over a network is provided. The PBX includes an interface for communicating with the network, an E-mail server for receiving and storing the E-mail; an extension interface for exchanging a communication signal including an audio signal and control... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090074161 - Telephone device: In a telephone device including telephone operation section (5a) on panel surface (5) at an upper part of a housing forming main body (4), the housing is constructed so that receiver section (1) can be placed thereon and is also constructed in the form of a desktop telephone device that... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090074162 - Method for integrating marketing with a communications system: A method is provided for integrating marketing with a communications system. Initially, the method may create an electronic directory with a plurality of directory records and group records. The method may include distributing a communication platform which interfaces with the electronic directory to a plurality of users. In addition, the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090074163 - One number, intelligent call processing system: A one number, multi-application, intelligent call processing system provides service benefits to a caller, a servicing location and/or a vanity number advertiser during a call, parallel to the call and/or post call in an integrated common architecture. The system utilizes VRU technology in conjunction with the national telecommunications network connected... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090074165 - Method, communication terminal and communication system for displaying a name assigned to a telephone number when a connection is established: A displayed name is assigned to a telephone number on a first communication terminal of a communication system, the telephone number of a second communication being detected on the first terminal or the communication system during a connection between the first and second terminals. The displayed name is transmitted to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090074164 - System for identifying a calling party: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to establish communications with a voicemail system, receive a caller identification (ID) associated with a voicemail message stored in the voicemail system, detect a match between the caller ID... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090074166 - Expected wait time system with dynamic array: An expected wait time calculation system generates an expected wait time value representing a time duration expected to elapse before a subject client is connected to a resource for servicing. The expected wait time calculation system comprises an interface to a work force management system for obtaining an indicator of... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090074167 - Prepaid services with security provisions to protect against unauthorized use: A method and apparatus for providing a telecommunication service is disclosed wherein a call associated with a first prepaid services account identifier is received from a user. An offer is provided to the user to initiate a replacement service for the first prepaid services account identifier and, upon receiving an... Agent: At & T Legal Department- Attn Patent Docketing

20090074168 - Technique for providing information assistance including a concierge-type service: A user may access information assistance for a concierge-type service, whereby the user may make restaurant reservations, purchase goods and services, obtain movie listings, etc. with an agent's (or operator's) assistance. In accordance with the invention, the agent may suggest a vendor for providing the goods or services requested by... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090074169 - Multi-line communication system: A method and apparatus are provided that allowing a user to simultaneously participate in two separate conversations. The method includes the steps of the user independently adjusting a volume of an audio signal for each of the two separate conversations, presenting the adjusted volume of the audio signals from the... Agent: Jon P. Christensen Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

20090074170 - Method, system, and article for audibly identifying a called party: A dialed number of a called party is received from a calling party. Based on the dialed number, a name of the called party is retrieved from a database. An audio message which includes the name of the called party is generated and communicated to the calling party. A call... Agent: At & T Legal Department/bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090074171 - Methods for searching phone book, and portable devices and information processing apparatuses having phone-book search function: Method of searching a phone book in an information processing apparatus, such as a portable device, may provide intelligent search of information associated with user-selected information. The method includes selecting a desired item of a plurality of item included in a phone book list, searching at least one item associated... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090074172 - Information processing apparatus, telephone exchange apparatus and information writing control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a recorder which temporarily holds the processed information of the file in a buffer including a storage capacity smaller than storage capacity of the storage device during file processing, and a controller which transfers the processed information of the file recorded... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090074173 - Local routing management in a telecommunications network: An embodiment of a method includes generating one or more route plans, each route plan being associated with a service plan, and provisioning the one or more route plans on a core routing engine accessible by a softswitch for routing calls according to the one or more route plans. The... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090074174 - International origin dependent customized routing of calls to toll-free numbers: A customized routing service platform for routing international communications includes a receiver that receives, from an international gateway via a network node, international communication origination data for an international communication to a customer's communication address. A database server receives customer routing instructions from the customer via a web server. The... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090074175 - Methods, systems, and products for exchanging health care communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for exchanging healthcare communications. An electronic healthcare communication is received and categorized. The electronic healthcare communication is processed according to the categorization of the electronic healthcare communication. A transaction reply is selected when the categorization applies a sender rule. The transaction reply is routed... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090074176 - Telephone system: The telephone system includes a server apparatus storing telephone directory data distinguished by extension numbers, and telephone terminals individually corresponded to the extension numbers by login operation. The telephone terminal has a user interface section which receives a request operation for requesting a reference to the telephone directory data which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090074177 - Echo canceler and echo canceling program: An echo canceler uses an adaptive filter to remove an echo of an incoming far-end signal from an outgoing near-end signal. Filter coefficients are calculated and updated while the far-end signal is active so as to minimize the residual echo. In addition, the far-end signal and near-end signal are sampled... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090067585 - 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

20090067584 - Processing and reporting situational information to emergency service providers: A system and method for processing and reporting situational information to emergency service providers in an emergency service communications network is disclosed. An emergency situation is monitored. Responsive to detecting the emergency situation, information relating to the emergency situation is collected. Then, the information is processed and stored in a... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20090067586 - Remote media call center: The call center processing system disclosed enhances the capabilities of traditional call centers. In particular, the processing system allows a call center to receive, aggregate, and index many different types of media obtained from a wide variety of sources and that relate to many different types of incidents. Thus, for... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090067587 - System and method for the automatic distribution of inmate phone recordings: A method of automatically distributing phone call recordings to interested parties generally includes associating one or more forwarding criteria with each of one or more interested parties, establishing a phone call from a calling party to a destination number through an institutional phone system, recording the phone call, and, if... Agent: Wiley Rein LLP

20090067588 - Saving and forwarding customized messages: Methods and computer-readable media provide presenting a customized message to an incoming calling party and for allowing the calling party to save or forward the customized message. A called party desiring to leave a customized message for certain incoming calling parties submits a customized message to an intelligent network component... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090067589 - Creating automated voice response menus for telecommunications services: A method for changing configuration settings of a telephony system comprises initiating a telephony configuration service, establishing service rights associated with a telephone number. a step for presenting one or more selectable options consistent with the service rights, at least one of which corresponds to a configuration setting change for... Agent: Ulmer & Berne LLP/ Oin

20090067590 - System and method of utilizing a hybrid semantic model for speech recognition: A system includes a network interface, a speech input conversion component, and a routing module. Speech input is received in connection with a call. At least a segment of the speech input is transformed into a first textual format. A first list of entries is generated based, at least partially,... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090067591 - Apparatus and method for managing a network: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network element having a controller to obtain network information associated with establishing a network among a group of communication devices, and provide the network information to a plurality of network set-up devices removably connected to the... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090067592 - Method and system for associating related messages of different types: Associating related messages of different types at a client device includes receiving user input via a user interface of a client device. The user input is for associating a first message of a first type with at least one other message of a different type. A common session ID is... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090067593 - Method for dynamically assembling voice messages at a wireless communication device: A wireless communication device has a call-answering module that answers incoming calls automatically before alerting a user. The wireless communication device also includes a calendar application that maintains scheduled event information for the user. Upon receiving an incoming call from a remote party, the call-answering module retrieves the scheduled event... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090067594 - Digital telephone systems: A digital telephone system provides visual displays of live events to a digital telephone device. An animation script is generated according to real time actions which make up the live event. The digital telephone system transmits the animation script to the digital telephone which is preloaded with a smart client... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20090067595 - 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

20090067597 - Computer telephony system, method and server: A controller in a computer telephony system records a mapping linking a key and the identifier of a communications terminal previously associated with a user. The key selected by the controller is a parameter associated with the user in a second system external to the computer telephony system. The controller... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090067596 - Multimedia playing device for instant inquiry: A multimedia playing device for instant inquiry is provided. The multimedia playing device includes a display, an image display unit, a calling module, and an auto-dialing module. The image display unit is adapted for displaying a multimedia program, such as an advertisement, on the display. The calling module is adapted... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090067598 - Method and arrangement for providing a communication in a communication system: First information and second information is stored in the communication system for a callback after a first communication terminal attempts a call to a second communication terminal in which the connection is not established. The first information allows the second communication terminal to display the attempted call so that a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090067599 - Methods and apparatuses for pay-per-call advertising in mobile/wireless applications: Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls resulting from advertisements on mobile/wireless media channels. In one embodiment, a method includes: assigning a telephone number to an advertiser, one of the telephone number and a reference to the telephone number to be included in... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090067600 - Method and arrangement for services running on service execution platform: The present invention discloses an arrangement for providing high availability and high robustness for services running on service execution platforms, comprising service components categorized according to different service types, such as weather and/or position. Where the arrangement further comprises: a one or more handheld communication device, a service platform and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090067601 - Transaction sets for automated electronic ordering of telecommunications products and services: A system and method for electronically exchanging information related to telecommunication services includes separating data representing the information to be exchanged into predefined segments corresponding to telecommunication services, associating a segment identification code with each segment, and grouping each segment identification code with corresponding data. The system and method also... Agent: At & T Legal Department/bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090067602 - Apparatus, systems and methods for presenting information pertaining to a user query: An embodiment for presenting information pertaining to a user query on a presentation device receives a user query via a user interface, the user query corresponding to a request for information of interest; accesses information associated with a receiving device; identifies at least one party based upon the receiving device... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090067603 - Pre-arranged, mutually agreed to, voip or voim call: Presented is a method for pre-arranging a VoIP or VoIM phone call. A first date and time for the VoIP or VoIM phone call and participants for the VoIP or VoIM phone call is selected. The availability of the participants during the first date and time is determined. If any... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20090067604 - Method and apparatus for evaluating possible 3-way call events: The likelihood that a called party to a telephone call has forwarded the call to another party, or has conferenced the call to include another party is estimated by requiring that the called party supply a first signal, illustratively a first DTMF signal, later requiring that the called party provide... Agent: William Ryan Attornety At Law

20090067605 - Video sequence for a musical alert: A method of creating a video sequence for display in synchronization with a musical alert including selecting one or more images; modifying the one or more selected images in dependence upon musical metadata for the musical alert to create a video sequence, wherein the extent and/or type of modification is... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090067606 - Method and phone terminal for diverting call: The present invention provides two methods for diverting call. The key point is that call diverting information including a number to be called is transmitted when there is an incoming call or a conversation is being conducted and then a party receiving the call diverting information initiates a call to... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090067607 - Method of providing an improved call forwarding service: The invention concerns a method of providing an improved call forwarding service in a telecommunications network, and a network unit and a computer program product to execute this method. A call initiated by a caller (10) to a first callee (21) is consecutively forwarded, starting from the first callee (21),... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090067608 - Method and apparatus for monitoring telephonic members and providing directory assistance: Telephone users desiring directory assistance services are connected via standard telephone procedures to a directory assistance provider, such as an operator. An operator provides the destination number and initiates a connection to that number. Once that connection is initiated, the connection is monitored for the occurrence of a predetermined condition,... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090067609 - Private branch exchange system and method for control thereof: A private branch exchange according to this invention comprises: a caller information detector for, when a call is received, obtaining caller information; a group incoming call table in which two or more extension numbers are correlated with an extension incoming call group number; and an incoming call group controller for,... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC James E. Ledbetter, Esq.

20090067610 - Method and system for computer processing information on a telephone communication: A method for computer processing information on a telephone communication between a first processing site (SI) and a second subscriber site (S2) consists in generating an URL data item from information items dependent on telephone communication and including the iteration of steps consisting in transmitting a request dependent on the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090067611 - Unified command and control of a multiplicity of heterogeneous systems supporting call center functionality: A method and apparatus are provided for operating a plurality of call center products. The method includes the steps of providing an enterprise administration server and disposing a respective terminal adapter between the enterprise administration server and each of the plurality of call center products. The method further includes the... Agent: Jon P. Christensen Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

20090067612 - System and method for incorporating customer hang-ups and web submissions into a phonecall-based support workflow: A method for managing calls and web-submissions includes receiving a web-submission at a first time; generating a first ticket associated with the web-submission; generating a first digital file indicating both the first ticket and that the web-submission was received from a system; storing the first ticket and the first digital... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Boca Raton

20090067613 - Method and apparatus for routing calls based on the identification of the calling party or calling line: A method and apparatus for routing calls for a subscriber based on the identification of the calling party or the originating line. Generally, the present invention operates to identify a calling party or originating line and then select a routing list based on this identification. Once a routing list has... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090067614 - Common mode transmission line termination: The present invention provides termination for transmission line structures propagating common mode signals. Common mode signals typically represent noise in systems wherein information is transmitted as differential mode signals. The present invention terminates the common mode signals in a dynamically matched termination that prevents or significantly reduces reflection of said... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20090067615 - Echo cancellation using gain control: A device for reducing echo by controlling microphone and/speaker gain in a telecommunications system is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the device may have an echo detector, echo level detector, and a gain controller. The echo detector detects an echo in a transmitted audio communication signal. The echo level detector... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20090067616 - Can echo cancellation level shifter: An echo cancellation system for use with a controller area network having at least two physical layers is disclosed. The system includes a flip flop circuit and a first resistor capacitor tank circuit and a second resistor capacitor tank circuit. The echo cancellation system uses a transition dependent delay in... Agent: Michael T. Raggio

20090060146 - Splitter system with test access: A splitter unit including a chassis containing splitter cards. The splitter unit includes a central processing unit mounting location. The splitter unit also includes test access devices that are inactive when the central processing unit mounting location is vacant. The splitter unit is configured such that the splitter cards provide... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090060147 - Achieving hearing aid compatibility on handsets with low acoustic impedance receivers: In one embodiment, an equalizer outputs a compensated received signal that flattens the acoustic frequency response characteristic of a handset having a leak tolerant ear piece. A hardware based filter is implemented within the handset having a response matched to the response of the equalizer so that the acoustic and... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090060148 - Methods and systems to connect consumers to information: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for specifying and obtaining services through audio commands, resulting in a live conversation between a user and a selected service provider using an audio-transmission medium (the telephone). A service seeker locates a service provider by entering a keypad code corresponding to a... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090060149 - Automated telephone notification system using voice over internet protocol (voip): A system or method for automatic telephone notification using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) includes a data portal having a web interface or portal software to connect to a master server. The data portal accesses a client's database and generates a customer list that includes customer records. A master server... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090060150 - Extending originating capabilities of a subscriber to devices in any telephony network: An exemplary method provides access to call origination features contained in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) for a subscriber of the IMS who originates a call request from customer premises equipment (CPE) outside of the IMS. The call request is received at a public service identity (PSI) server in... Agent: Patti , Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20090060151 - 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

20090060152 - System and method for controlling a digital video recorder on a cable network: A system and method for controlling a digital video recorder on a cable network. Signaling associated with the answering or initiation of a digital telephone call by a digital telephone subscriber is used to issue commands to a digital video recorder (DVR). A signal is generated by an MTA when... Agent: Roberts, Mardula & Wertheim, LLC

20090060153 - Method for maintaining a customer account: A customer is provided a telephone number to which a calling party incurs a charge to be connected. An account balance, which reflects funds deposited into the customer's account but not yet used by the customer, is increased in proportion to the incurred charge. Other embodiments are also described and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090060154 - Per-session dynamic charging caps in communication networks: Communication networks and associated methods and systems are disclosed that provide per-session dynamic charging caps. For a session, the communication network includes a network element adapted to serve the session, a charging system, and a subscriber server adapted to store charging criteria defined for a party to the session. In... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20090060155 - Methods and systems for call management with user intervention: Methods and systems for managing a call in real-time are disclosed. Methods and systems consistent with the present invention manage a call in real-time based on input from a user. A service center receives information pertaining to a call to the user from a service control point and sends a... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090060156 - System for recording spoken phone numbers during a voice call: A method, system and computer program product for employing speech recognition technology to recognize a number spoken during a telephone call and a voicemail message. A speech recognition and transcription (SRT) utility within a communication device (e.g., a telephone) detects spoken numbers (and spoken phrases which may be associated with... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090060157 - Conference call prioritization: An improved solution for prioritizing conference call participants is provided. In an embodiment of the invention, a method includes detecting a sound of a first conference call participant; disabling a distribution of a sound of a second conference call participant upon the detecting; and enabling the distribution of the sound... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090060158 - Method and system to detect a multi-party telephone call: A computer-implemented system to detect a multi-party telephone call, in one example embodiment, comprises a communication module to establish a telephone call to a requested telephone number, a detection module to detect an indication of a multi-party telephone call in progress, the indication being based on observing a period of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090060160 - Switch having notification system: Telecommunications switches for connecting circuits across a network and having an emergency notification system that allows access to customer premise equipment, such as a telephone, mobile telephone, VOIP telephone, or any other type of customer premise equipment, and delivers to that CPE an alarm or another message. The telecommunication switch... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090060159 - System and method for providing a customized dialtone: A system and method for customizing telephone communications is presented. The system and method may include a network node configured to communicate pre-dial content to the user of a communications device, rather than a dial tone.... Agent: Ip Department Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090060161 - Method and system to automatically block a telephone number: A system to automatically block a telephone number is provided. The system, in one example embodiment, comprises a detecting module to detect a refused telephone call; a counter to be adjusted (e.g., incremented) in response to the refused telephone call; a processing module to determine a value of the counter;... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090060162 - Method and system for providing secretary services through a communications infrastructure: A method and a system for providing secretarial services through an intelligent system, which is composed of computers and human operators, in conjunction with a communication infrastructure. The system provides call-handling service to a user as a value added service where an incoming call can be routed to various destinations... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20090060163 - Call establishment in call centers having heterogeneous terminals: A method of establishing calls with call centers that have heterogeneous hardware and software is disclosed. In particular, the data processing system for establishing a call selects one or more terminals for call based on the set of capabilities of the respective terminals and on the quality-of-service parameters that characterize... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090060164 - Communication method and apparatus: A router of a first network and a router of a second network are connected to a third network. A connection request including information relating to the direction of communication performed by a first service provider that exists on the first network is transmitted from the first network to the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090060165 - Method and system for customer transaction request routing: A system (100) and method (900) for routing customer transaction requests, such as electronic installment loan applications (101) is provided. The routing facilitates efficient workflow between a plurality of customer service centers (103, 104, 105) by generating a number within a predetermined range and associating it with the incoming customer... Agent: Philip H. Burrus, Iv

20090060166 - Calibrating a telephone handsfree system: A calibration device automatically calibrates a telephone hands free system. The device includes a signal processor that processes a received telephone signal that may be converted into audible sound through the hands free system. A first telephone and a second telephone communicate with the signal processor. The first telephone is... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Chicago Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090060167 - Adaptive filter for use in echo reduction: Methods and corresponding systems in an adaptive filter include calculating a signal estimator output using filter coefficients, and calculating an error signal. Next, a coefficient threshold is determined. Thereafter, for each filter coefficient, a first step size is assigned to filter coefficients with a magnitude less than the coefficient threshold,... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20090060168 - Network interface: A network interface device (NID) and associated printed circuit board is provided that includes metallic die cast housing and doors configured so that one of the doors, when closed, physically separates service provider circuitry from the customer premise equipment (CPE) side connections on a circuit card within the NID so... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20090060169 - Communication privacy mask: The communication privacy mask has a housing having an opening coupled with a mouth piece and a hollow sound tube mounted in the housing. A microphone is positioned in the sound tube with a space in front of the front end of the microphone.... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090060170 - Method and apparatus for call control using motion and position information: A method and apparatus perform call control by obtaining initial biometric information of ears of a user of a handheld audio device; detecting a change in the biometric information of the ears of the user; determining a position and motion of the handheld audio device by analyzing the detected change... Agent: John C. Moran, Attorney, P.C.

20090060171 - Letter pattern on the dial key buttons of a mobile telephone: A sticker includes a “number” and “letters” that are larger than the “number” on a dial key button of a mobile telephone, wherein the sticker is to be put on a part of a dial key button of a mobile telephone.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090060172 - Letter pattern on the dial key buttons of a mobile telephone: A sticker includes a “number” and “letters” that are larger than the “number” on a dial key button of a mobile telephone, wherein the sticker is to be put on a part of a dial key button of a mobile telephone.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090060173 - Germ protector system for telephone: Germ protector system provides covers for both the receiver and transmitter portions of a telephone device along a connecting element that connects the receiver and transmitter covers. The covers provide a protective barrier to prevent germs from contacting the surfaces of the end pieces of a telephone device. The connecting... Agent: Darcell Walker