Telephonic communications inventions 05/09

20090136006 - Automatic emergency profile: A system and method are disclosed that automatically provide a user profile to an emergency call center. The system includes a network having a user profile manager configured to manage communication between a telecommunications device and the emergency call center, wherein the user profile manager is configured to automatically transmit... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20090136007 - Emergency call system between a telecommunication device and an emergency call center: For implementing an emergency call system between a telecommunication device and an emergency call center, the telecommunication device includes a log-in and log-out state via a switchable log-in function at a VoIP telecommunication service provider via an IP infrastructure consisting of at least one router. The emergency call center has... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20090136008 - Downloadable ringtones for usage in emergency situations: The invention relates to the usage of downloadable ringtones for communication devices in emergency situations. Emergency Alert systems such as air raid sirens inform the population that an emergency has occurred, however, they do not provide any information about the type of emergency and the actions to be taken. By... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090136009 - Knowledge management, capture and modeling tool for multi-modal communications: Systems and method of capturing multi-modal communications are provided. A particular method includes detecting a first communication made using a first communication device in a group of communication devices of a user, where the group of communication devices is defined by the user. The method also includes generating a first... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090136010 - Method and apparatus for telecommunications advertising: A telecommunications advertising means is disclosed. The telecommunication advertising means includes an advertisement database coupled to a processing means. The advertisement database stores subscriber specific or third party advertisements that are selectively associated with communications in a telecommunications network. The selective association is carried out by the processing means. In... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090136011 - Telephone number-based advertising: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which a first telephone number is associated with a second telephone number, and a web-based advertisement is served for an advertiser that includes the first telephone number. A call placed to the first telephone number is received, and the call is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090136012 - Telecommunications calls: A user accesses a destination such as a call centre 6; the call centre generates a record for insertion into the user's personal address book (e.g. at server 3) with a telephone number of the centre 6 and metadata concerning a transaction. To place a later call on the same... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090136013 - System for obtaining information regarding telephone calls: A system and method for gathering and presenting relevant information about another party to a telephone call are provided to a user who is making or receiving a telephone call. The information is sufficient to assist the user in deciding whether or not to accept a call, or to provide... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20090136014 - Method for determining the on-hold status in a call: A system and method is provided for detecting a hold status in a transaction between a waiting party and a queuing party. The system is adapted to use a preexisting cue profile database containing cue profile for a queuing party. A preexisting cue profile may be used for detecting a... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090136015 - Incoming call challenger: In one embodiment, a method of challenging an incoming call to a called party based on predetermined call challenge rules. The call challenge rules may include challenging a calling party when an incoming call falls within a call challenge time window of the local time of the called party. A... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Department

20090136016 - Transferring a communication event: A method of transferring a communication event from a calling user to at least one destination user is provided. The method comprises a communication client of the calling user establishing a connection with a communication client of an intermediate user over a packet-based communication network, the intermediate user selecting to... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090136017 - System and method for processing telecommunication calls: A system and method are disclosed for processing calls in a telecommunication network. The system may comprise a plurality of terminals, wherein each of the plurality of terminals has an input for receiving a call request including a set of keywords, and wherein the plurality of terminals comprises a calling... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090136018 - Method of and system for automatically switching between free directory assistance service and chargeable directory assistance service: A method of redirecting a directory-assistance call includes receiving a directory-assistance request from a caller, determining via a free directory-assistance service whether information corresponding to the directory-assistance request is available, responsive to a determination that the information is available, presenting, to the caller, the information free of charge to the... Agent: Winstead PC

20090136019 - Method and apparatus for communicating information about a called party to a calling party: A method and apparatus is provided for automatically retrieving and displaying supplemental information about a called party on the CPE of a calling party. When a caller places a call, the number called is used to look up and return to the caller the Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090136020 - Method and apparatus for echo cancellation: A method and apparatus for echo cancellation is disclosed. The apparatus includes an echo compensator and a double talk detector. The echo compensator compensates for associated feedback echo by filtering an echo component from a receiver input signal. The double talk detector provides a control signal based on comparisons of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090136021 - Device providing phone services to phones plugged to a residential phone wiring that is not coupled to a central office telephone exchange: The present invention concerns a device comprising a first interfacing means for linking to a residential phone wiring and a second interfacing means for accessing a network, the residential phone wiring being connected to a first phone subscriber line interface means located in a central office, the residential phone wiring... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090129557 - Method and system for performing sip loopback in communication devices: A system operator provisions, or loads, a user's communication device, such as a cable modem, with multiple sets of loopback mode parameters that each facilitate a loopback test, and associates each set with multiple loopback numbers, or variable values. The loopback variables may be MIBs assigned to the device's manufacturer... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20090129558 - Communication circuit, computer readable medium, communication apparatus and communication method: A communication circuit is provided with: a transmission and reception unit that transmits and receives communication signals through a telephone line; a connection unit that connects the transmission and reception unit to the telephone line; a detection unit that detects a line voltage value supplied from the telephone line; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090129559 - Communication apparatus, communication method and computer readable medium: A communication apparatus is provided with: plural transmission units that respectively transmit communication signals through a telephone line; a detection unit that detects a value of a line voltage supplied from the telephone line to each of the plural transmission units; and a controller that controls transmission from each of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090129560 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing traffic congestion in a network through detection of a source of excessive call volume: A communication network that includes a signaling system seven (SS7) network is operated by associating call release messages, which are indicative of call failures in the communication network, with an originating point code (OPC) and/or a calling number. The rate at which calls originating from the originating point code and/or... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090129561 - Devices, systems, and/or methods regarding telecommunications addressing: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise automatically causing a call to be connected. The call can be connected via a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) user identity provided by a calling device that requests the call. The SIP public user identity can be associated with one or more... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Haynes Attn: Patent Docketing

20090129562 - Method, system and device for dispatching calls: The present disclosure discloses a call dispatch method which can hold a plurality of calls concurrently for a flexible dispatch and which includes allocating a received call to a dispatch terminal, receiving a call processing request returned from the dispatch terminal, and executing the processing of storing the received call... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090129563 - Methods, systems, and products for processing emergency communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for processing an emergency communication. A communication is received from a sender's communications address that is destined to an emergency response communications address. The sender's communications address and the emergency response communications address are associated to an emergency alert profile that stores emergency information.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090129564 - Method and system for publishing presence information and presence agent: Provided are a method and system for publishing presence information and a presence agent. The method includes receiving a voice message input through a terminal by a user, parsing the received voice message and extracting presence information, and publishing the extracted presence information. According to the method, a user can... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090129565 - Method and apparatus for overlaying whispered audio onto a telephone call: Information may be provided to a telephony customer from an overlay service by causing a second stream of audio information to be overlayed on a primary stream of audio information. The overlayed information may be whispered to the user by causing the overlayed information to be compressed into a limited... Agent: Anderson Gorecki & Manaras, LLP Attn: John C. Gorecki

20090129566 - Providing real-time voice communication between devices connected to an internet protocol network and devices connected to a public switched telephone network: Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing real-time voice communication between devices connected to an Internet Protocol (IP) network and devices connected to a public switched telephone network (PSTN). In one implementation, the system includes a computer-controlled switch for connection to a local PSTN, for receiving calls from the IP network... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090129567 - Call processing in a voicemail system: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method that involves receiving an indication that communications with a subscriber have been interrupted while engaged in voicemail processing, and recording a pointer to a last state of voicemail processing. Additional embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090129569 - Communication base system and method of using the same: In order to enable several wearable devices to communicate with several communication devices over a range of types of networks simultaneously, the illustrative embodiments provide a communication base system and method of using that communication base system. The communication base system includes several network-side transceivers in which each transceiver is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090129568 - Distribution device in a subscriber connection area: The invention relates to a distribution device (1) in the subscriber access area, comprising two changeover devices (2, 3), two switching matrices (4, 5), a DSLAM (6) having associated splitter modules (7), and at least one controller (14), in which the first changeover device (2) comprises m inputs (8), m... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090129570 - Information device: A device for obtaining, storing and displaying information from a remote server, the device has a modem for establishing communication sessions with the remote server. A memory coupled to the modem stores the obtained information, and a display is coupled to the memory for displaying the stored information. The device... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090129571 - Methods and apparatuses to initiate telephone connections: Methods and apparatuses to initiate real time communications via capturing an image of a communication reference using a mobile device. One embodiment includes: an input device; a communication module; an image sensor; and a processor coupled with the input device, the image sensor and the communication module. In response to... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Gt Attn: Patent Docketing

20090129572 - Billing data interface for conferencing customers: A billing data interface provides billing data to customers in an accurate and efficient manner. Billing data is processed to preserve client billing information and to meet a customer's individual data requirements. The billing data may be presented in such a way that the customer may input the billing data... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090129573 - System and method for detecting and managing fraud: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines,... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090129574 - Method of configuring telephone softkeys: A method and system are described for configuring and presenting softkeys on a device. Softkey profiles are created for assigning a feature to a softkey on a device for each of a plurality of device states; and each such softkey is presented on the device for each of device state.... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090129575 - System and computer program product for creating a telecommunications application: Techniques for using a proxy model to encapsulate one or more telecommunications (telecom) functionalities are provided. The techniques include generating a proxy model, wherein the proxy model comprises at least one of a representation module, an implementation module, a metadata module, one or more utility snippet modules, one or more... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090129576 - Relay device, communication terminal, signal decoder, signal processing method, and signal processing program: It is an object of the present invention to provide a relay device, a communication terminal, a signal decoder, a method for processing a signal, and a program for processing a signal, which make it possible to achieve a multi-party communication system capable of preventing a significant deterioration of the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090129578 - Method and apparatus for implementing the cnap service: The present invention discloses a method for realizing the CNAP service, including: receiving a service request sent by the switching system, where the service request carries the identifier of the calling party and the identifier of the called party; querying the calling information set by the calling party according to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090129577 - Telecommunications: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a telecommunications network, of controlling the way in which calls to a telephone number are handled, comprising creating a call handling package comprising one or more conditions, and one or more call handling actions, and associating... Agent: Hewlett- Packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090129579 - Subscriber accommodating apparatus, transfer control method, communication system, and program product: A subscriber accommodating apparatus which receives a call connection request from at least one subscriber terminal includes a control unit. The control unit compares a number of sessions under connection with a predetermined threshold value and controls a transfer of the call connection request according to the comparison result, when... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090129580 - Geographic trunk groups: Embodiments of the invention include a method for routing an Internet Protocol (IP)-based call through a first IP-based network to a second IP-based network. The method includes receiving an IP-based call request in the first network; identifying one or more geographic trunk groups that can be used to route the... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090129581 - Method and apparatus for provisioning contact handling resources in a contact center: A method and apparatus are provided for provisioning call handling resources in a contact handling system. The method includes the steps of identifying a call handling resource within a first contact center, copying call handling data associated with the identified contact handling resource and writing the call handling data into... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090129582 - Communication system tonal component maintenance techniques: An apparatus and method for suppressing noise is presented. The apparatus may utilize a filter bank of bandpass filters to split the input noisy speech-containing signal into separate frequency bands. To determine whether the input signal contains speech, DTMF tones or silence, a joint voice activity & DTMF activity detector... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090129583 - Unpowered twisted pair loopback circuit for differential mode signaling: A method and apparatus provide an IP telephone or similar device with a mechanism to receive and at least briefly loop back discovery signals received from a telecommunications device such as an Ethernet switch while not permitting the loop back of data packet signals. No mechanical relays are required and... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090129584 - Echo canceller: An echo canceller which can respond to a sudden change in echo characteristics in real time and does not require an alteration outside the echo canceller, includes a smoothed sending-speech signal calculation means for calculating a smoothed sending-speech signal from the sending-speech signal, the smoothed sending-speech signal being obtained by... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090122964 - System and method for providing recorded messages on a communications network: A system and method is provided for providing, maintaining and accessing recording announcements in a telecommunications system. In the preferred embodiment, the system comprises at least one central office coupled to a telecommunication network. An announcement service node comprising a data schema and an application for accessing the data schema... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Wk Attn: Patent Docketing

20090122965 - Method and system for routing calls based on a language preference: Systems and methods for processing a call are disclosed. Generally a stored indication of a user's language preference is accessed in response to receipt of a call initiated by the user. The call is then routed to a location based on the stored indication of the user's language preference.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090122966 - Controlling voice mail systems from instant messaging clients: A method of controlling a voice mail system with an instant messaging client is disclosed. For example, the illustrative embodiment enables a user of a instant messaging client to forward a voice mail message to one or more people listed in the instant messaging client's buddy list. Furthermore, the instant... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090122967 - Telephone communication system and method for transmitting reply messages: A telephone communication system and method for transmitting reply messages are provided. The telephone communication system includes a plurality of telephone devices, wherein at least a first telephone device has hardware circuitry, a display, and a processor. The hardware circuitry receives a signal from a second telephone device. The display... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090122968 - Authentication system and method: A method of authorising a user of a first packet-based communication network to access a second packet-based communication network. The method comprises: receiving an authorisation request from a user terminal of the user at a first network element of the first packet-based communication network, the authorisation request comprising a first... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090122969 - Method and apparatus for performing call correlation across network elements: Method and apparatus for performing call correlation across network elements are disclosed. For example, the method receives by a first correlation engine one or more Call Detail Records (CDRs) from one or more network elements at a completion of a call wherein each of said one or more CDRs contains... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090122970 - Authentication apparatus: An authentication device for fitting at the entrance to a property includes an externally facing interface including a speaker and a microphone; an internally facing interface comprising a speaker, a microphone and a keypad; and a processing unit including electrical interfaces to both the internally and externally facing interfaces and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090122971 - Device and method allowing to successively use several terminal devices in a same voice communication: The present invention concerns an interconnect device and process for connecting a first network to a second network, comprising first connecting means for connecting the interconnect device to the first network, second connecting means for connecting the interconnect device to the second network, the second connecting means being connected to... Agent: Robert D. Shedd Thomson Licensing LLC

20090122972 - Independent customer service agents: Aspects of systems and methods for maintaining and operating agent nodes are provided. In some embodiments, calls, contacts, and other work units may be routed to individual customer service agents via a centralized queue based on a variety of factors. Some embodiments may provide market-based call pricing and customer service... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090122973 - System and method for automated call distribution: Aspects of systems and methods for maintaining and operating agent nodes are provided. In some embodiments, calls, contacts, and other work units may be routed to individual customer service agents via a centralized queue based on a variety of factors. Some embodiments may provide market-based call pricing and customer service... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090122974 - Sound pick-up method and device, in particular for handsfree telephone terminals: The invention relates to processing signal for improving a sound pick-up in telephone and/or videophone units. The inventive method consists in comparing (13) a signal transmitted by a unit microphone (Mic) with a threshold low value (THR_LOW) and in amplifying (14,15) said microphone-transmitted signal when it is less than the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20090122975 - Method, system and apparatus for controlling an echo canceller during faxing: A method, an apparatus and a system for controlling an echo canceller in faxing are provided. The method includes: after detecting a triggering signal, the signal detecting apparatus enables the echo canceller to be in the initial state if the echo canceller is in the disabled state. In the apparatus... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090122976 - Wire guide plate and assembly as well as a telecommunications module comprising at least one wire guide plate: A wire guide plate (10) for guiding at least one wire (12, 14) to a front side thereof comprises at least one first wire guide (16) formed on a first surface (18) of the wire guide plate (10), and at least one through opening (20) is formed in the vicinity... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090122977 - Systems and methods for a multicarrier transceiver with radio frequency interference reduction: A multi-carrier information transceiver that exhibits robustness against radio frequency interference (RFI) signals present in the communications channel. The transceiver includes a RFI mitigation technique that operates not only during the steady state operation of the transceiver but also during the training stage of the transceiver. That requires dynamically modifying... Agent: Jason H. Vick Sheridan Ross, PC

20090116622 - Device, system and method of telecommunications wire pair qualification: A portable testing device for testing a telecommunications line comprises a control circuit, a test module coupled to the control circuit, the test module including a DSLAM modem, and a relay matrix that includes a series of relays configured to connect with a plurality of wire pairs of the telecommunications... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090116623 - Method and system to provision emergency contact services in a communication network: A method includes receiving a query at a telephone number mapping (ENUM) server, the query identifying an emergency telephone number associated with a subscriber to an emergency contact service. The method also includes retrieving from the ENUM server, in response to the query, one or more emergency contact Uniform Resource... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090116624 - Method, apparatus and system for playing ring back tone: A method, apparatus and system for playing a Ring Back Tone are provided, and the method includes: determining, according to a call request initiated by a calling party, whether a called party has customized a called-party Ring Back Tone service; further determining, if the called party has customized a called-party... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090116625 - Method and system for providing power and data over a voice grade/pots infrastructure for use in communicating with and/or controlling multiple remote network and non-network devices: A system and method for providing data services and controllable power to each one of a plurality of end points in a structure. The system comprises a network, a source of power, a concentrator connected to the network and remote network devices/controllers connected to the network with a remote network... Agent: John L. Deangelis Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090116626 - Dynamic order fulfillment for communications, information and entertainment services: A system and method to enable dynamic partner selection and subsequent order fulfillment by a service provider is presented. The system and method has an order entry device for obtaining an order, a service specification corresponding to the order, a flow execution engine, a partner selector mechanism, at least one... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090116627 - Charging split negotiation in ims sessions: A method and apparatus for implementation of split charging in an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem, allowing subsystem users to negotiate at setup and at a modification of a session initiation protocol session which user will be charged for each multimedia component of the subsystem. A method includes transmitting a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090116628 - Charging split negotiation in ims sessions: A method and apparatus for implementation of split charging in an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem, allowing subsystem users to negotiate at setup and at a modification of a session initiation protocol session which user will be charged for each multimedia component of the subsystem. A method includes transmitting a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090116629 - Subscriber calling method (variants) and a communications device system for carrying out said method: The invention can be used for designing a multi-purpose telephone unit for accessing to any communications and data transmission systems without limiting the system numbering capacity and with a free selection of a user's identification. In both variants, the inventive method consists in forming a message about a called subscriber... Agent: Speckman Law Group PLLC

20090116630 - Inhibition of telephony based phishing: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to telephonic phishing and provide a method, system and computer program product for preventing telephonic phishing. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for preventing telephonic phishing can be provided. The method can include receiving in a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090116631 - Universal call control systems and methods: Methods and systems for providing a user with control over telecommunications services provided by a service provider. Using almost any type of communications device, a user may gain access to, view, and make changes or modifications to profile information related to the services. The changes may be made quickly and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090116632 - Method and system for replicating ring back tones: The present invention, in one aspect, relates to a method for replicating ring back tone (RBT). In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of sending a Play and Collect request to a media resource server (MRS) by an application server (AS), playing an RBT subscribed by the called party... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090116633 - Method for displaying dialing information and mobile communication device using the method: A method for displaying dialing information is disclosed. A trigger signal generated by pressing a virtual button of a virtual keypad of a mobile communication device is received. It is determined whether the trigger signal corresponds to a dialing operation. If the trigger signal corresponds to the dialing operation, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090116634 - Accommodation of two independent telephony systems: Independent telephony systems are integrated by using symmetric forking from both systems. Calls received by either system are forked to the other system. Thus, a call can be accepted by one of the systems, using its external interfaces, and presented to all devices in both systems. Each system is enabled... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090116635 - Handling of a session initiation protocol-capable telecommunications terminal that is put on hold: A method is disclosed that enables the proper treatment of a queued call by a call center, or other data-processing system capable of queuing calls, in which the calling terminal of the queued call has been put on hold by its user. The call center is able to detect the... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090116636 - Method and apparatus for handling a telephone call: One embodiment of the invention provides a method of handling a telephone call. The method includes providing a multi-tenanted computer-telephony integration (CTI) server. The different tenants correspond to various outlets for one or more product or service offerings. The CTI server is located outside the customer premises for the various... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090116637 - Method for seamless noise suppression on wideband to narrowband cell switching: A method for seamless noise suppression on wideband to narrowband cell switching is described. In one embodiment the method includes applying noise suppression to a telephone signal using a first noise suppressor while operating a telephone in a first operating mode, the first noise suppressor generating an estimate of a... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20090116638 - Systems and methods for adaptive echo cancellation: An echo canceller comprises foreground and background filters. The background filter locates and confirms peaks, defines active regions centered about the confirmed peaks and updates coefficients of the foreground filter when the background filter is more effective than the foreground filter A method for improved adaptive echo cancellation comprises configuring... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20090116639 - Method and apparatus for crosstalk mitigation: A method and apparatus for noise cancellation in a multi-channel communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment this system is configured to cancel FEXT on a victim channel utilizing the signals received on the other channels. The processing benefits gained by a receiver's other filters, such as for example, the... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.