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Telephonic communications August inventions list 08/09

20090213998 - Method and device for estimating properties of a telecommunication transmission line: A method and device for estimating one or more transmission properties of a telecommunication transmission line. At least one signal is sent on the line, the at least one signal including at least two frequencies for which the absolute value of the line propagation constant times the line length is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090214001 - Customer premises equipment configured to place emergency calls using data networks: Customer premises equipment may include a memory, a modem/router, and a communications device at a customer premises. The memory may be configured to store an address for a public safety answering point corresponding to the customer premises. The modem/router may be configured to provide a data connection between the customer... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090214000 - System and method for providing medical and contact information during an emergency call: A system and method for providing medical and contact information of a subscriber initiating an emergency 911 call, directly to a response center at the time of the receipt of the emergency 911 call. Upon the initiation of an emergency 911 call, the existing infrastructure equipment of a communication service... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090213999 - System and method for providing personalized reverse 911 service: Systems and methods for providing personalized reversed 911 services are provided. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a 911 call indication is received. This 911 call indication triggers a review of at least one reverse 911 profile associated with media gateway device initiating the 911 call. One or more call treatments... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090214002 - Device and method for implementing a coloring ring back tone service and device for acquiring a coloring ring back tone file: Embodiments of the invention provide a device and method for implementing a Coloring Ring Back Tone (CRBT) service and a device for acquiring a CRBT file. The device for implementing a CRBT service includes a first receiving module adapted to receive CRBT access information, a channel management module adapted to... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090214003 - Method and system for providing a ring back tone in a communication network: A method and system for implementing an interactive Ring Back Tone service are disclosed, and the method includes: obtaining (S101), when connecting a call, subscription information of an interactive Ring Back Tone service subscribed by a user; issuing (S102), when a called terminal is idle, to the called terminal a... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090214004 - Tracking individuals using voice verification: A method for tracking the location of an individual can include selecting a first audio clip from a plurality of audio clips, wherein each audio clip comprises a different question for the individual and wherein a correct answer corresponds to each audio clip. The method can further include initiating a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090214005 - Personalized telephone directory and calling system: An embodiment of this invention provides a secure, integrated and hierarchical database to store phone numbers of services, along with personal protected information required by the service. This hierarchical data is stored for an individual or a group of individuals and will be made available when they place a call... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting Llc

20090214006 - System and method for providing enhanced voice messaging services: A system and method for providing enhanced audio messaging services. The system comprises a voice gateway for interfacing with a plurality of telephone devices, a voice messaging server (VMS) and a content server that together enable the execution of the enhanced messaging services. The system further includes a metadata database... Agent: Myers Wolin, Llc

20090214007 - System and method for providing telephone call notification and management in a network environment: Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to receive an incoming call message via a data interface upon activation of a trigger established with a voice communication network and activated when the voice communication network receives an incoming call to a destination identified by a pre-determined... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Slwip Attn: Patent Docketing

20090214008 - Method and system for location based ring back tones: A method and system of providing ring back tone (RBT) content to a calling party, based on obtaining location based data related to a terminal, correlating the location based data to RBT content and providing the correlated RBT content to the calling party. The method and system is further adapted... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090214009 - Indicator apparatus for healthcare communication system: An indicator apparatus is configurable for use in a healthcare communication system, such as a nurse call system. The indicator apparatus includes a visual indicator. The visual indicator is operable to selectively display one or more colors in response to calls received by the healthcare communication system.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090214010 - Selectively-expandable speakerphone system and method: According to one embodiment, a selectively-expandable speakerphone system allows one or more portable computers to automatically, wirelessly interface with a speakerphone console via an audio access point. A scheduling module initiates the conference call at a scheduled time, whereupon the wireless network interface of each portable computer is automatically switched... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090214011 - System and method for providing emergency wireline telephone services to residences: A system and method for providing wireline telephone services may include providing wireline telephone services to a residence to enable a user to place telephone calls. In response to receiving an access code, the user may be enabled to place telephone calls. The user may be billed for placing the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090214012 - Advanced payment for telephone services: A method of providing telephone services includes receiving an advanced payment. The advanced payment corresponds to a fixed time interval of telephone service spanning at least one day. The method also includes activating service to a mobile device for the fixed time interval and collecting a plurality of call data.... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter Secrest & Emery LLP

20090214013 - Systems, methods and computer products for caller identification from call to wireless/wireline cellular to internet protocol television: Systems, methods and computer products for providing caller identification from a call to a wireless/wireline cellular phone to Internet Protocol Television. Exemplary embodiments include a method for providing caller identification services to an Internet Protocol-enabled device, including receiving a communication request from a caller device over a voice network, the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090214014 - Enhanced telephony computer user interface allowing user interaction and control of a telephone using a personal computer: An enhanced telephony (ET) computer user interface that seamlessly integrates features of a personal computer (PC) and a telephone into a coherent user interface. The user is provided with a rich variety of functionality that leverages the fact that the PC has considerably more processing power and greater access to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090214015 - Addressee information notification system, addressee information notification method, application server and communication terminal: An addressee information notification system includes an application server which, based on an addressee number requested by an incoming call connection request, selects one transfer destination terminal from plural alternative transfer destination terminals associated with the addressee number, and transfers the call connection request to the selected terminal, and plural... Agent: Moss & Burke, Pllc

20090214016 - Hierarchal control of teleconferences: A teleconference between at least two participants is evaluated by monitoring the teleconference and detecting a triggering event if more than one participant desires to speak at the same time. Upon detecting a triggering event, e.g., detecting an attempt of one or more participants to interrupt another participant, or detecting... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.l.p.

20090214017 - Methods, systems, & products for customized alerts: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for presenting a custom alert to a recipient of an incoming data communication. A data message is received that specifies the custom alert associated with the data communication. The customer alert is then visually and/or audibly presented to provide notice of the data communication.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090214018 - Distributed identifier management: An overlay network of volatile nodes, without centralized servers, using DHT-like search algorithms, is programmed to perform One-Number or One-ID services. A user's public number is either the PSTN or PLMN line that is connected to an overlay node, or a voice (or video) over IP number, which is serviced... Agent: Wei Kang Tsai

20090214019 - Communication server with paralell telopnone dialing capability: A System for communicating between Remote Sentry Devices (conveniently called Enabled Cell-Phones or Enabled Wireless Devices) and members of a community (End-Users) or with other Remote Sentry Devices through a Central Point Server in order to provide a multiplicity of communication paths and access to Applications Program content by means... Agent: Phil Brooks

20090214020 - Category based organization and monitoring of customer service help sessions: A method and computer readable medium are provided for monitoring customer support sessions based on at least one category associated with the customer support sessions. A request from an administrator for information associated with unresolved support sessions is received. A set of support categories is presented to the administrator. A... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090214021 - Method and system for improved routing of repair calls to a call center: Processing a communication received at a communications center over a communications network includes determining whether a sender of the communication sent previous communications to a communications center based on identification information obtained from the communication. Communication is routed to an agent, from a first group of agents, when it is... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Gb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090214022 - System and method for dialing prompt: A dialing prompt system and method may include a monitoring unit, and a dialing prompt information processing unit. The monitoring unit is adapted to monitor whether it is necessary to send dialing prompt information to a user, and if necessary, trigger the dialing prompt information processing unit. The dialing prompt... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090207978 - Method and apparatus for emergency services number alerting in an internet protocol network: A method and apparatus for identification of emergency conditions present at a given geographic location of an Internet Protocol (IP) based device and the subsequent appropriate alerting of an Emergency Services Notification (ESN) telephone number. The method and apparatus serve to monitor an IP packet flow from an IP telephony... Agent: Eaton Peabody Patent Group, LLC

20090207979 - System and method for recording and evaluating communication: A system and method for recording and evaluating communication including a computer program product operable to allow users to search for and locate one or more selected target user(s) and operable to provide access to feedback from one or more verified user(s) having recorded one or more communication with the... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090207980 - System and method for externally mapping an interactive voice response menu: An interactive voice response mapping system (IVRMS) is used in a transaction between a waiting party and a queuing party, with the queuing party having a queuing calling system (QCS), and the IVRMS adapted to communicate with the QCS and to build an IVR map of the QCS.... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090207981 - Method of and a communications system for providing, to a calling party, information concerning a message played to the calling party: A method of and a communications system for providing a calling party (1) information (27) of a message (18) that is played to the calling party (1) in a communications system, when the calling party (1) calls (10) a called party (2) and the called party (2) is being alerted... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207983 - Method and a system for delivering messages to calling parties: A method for delivering a message to a calling party. The method comprises receiving a destination number of a destination party via a network. The destination number is dialed by a calling party. The method further comprises identifying data that characterizes the destination party, selecting one or more messages from... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090207982 - Method and system for voice mail pausing: A method and system for automatically pausing a remote voicemail recording to answer an incoming call and to notify an incoming caller of a user voicemail interaction. A command to pause the voicemail recording can be determined by the user prior to establishing the voicemail recording. Upon receiving an incoming... Agent: Ibm Corporation (endicott) C/o Ortiz & Lopez

20090207984 - System and method for visual voicemail utilizing a set-top box: A system and method for managing voicemail locally through a set-top box. A call is received from a caller. The call is intercepted utilizing a set-top box. An indicator is displayed to a television in communication with the set-top box. The indicator being indicative of the message being recorded. One... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090207985 - Dsl system: An apparatus comprises at least one vectoring engine and a cross-connect coupled to the vectoring engine. The cross-connect is to couple with each of a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices via a respective DSL loop. An interface is to receive instructions for the cross-connect to couple the vectoring... Agent: Lester J Vincent Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20090207986 - Telecommunications system: A telecommunications system simplifies programming of telephone systems and expands such programming to include possibilities in addition to the required functionality for producing communications between subscribers. A user interface is provided for simple programming of functions and modules according to the modular principle. The most varied terminals can be controlled... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090207987 - Method and apparatus for treating potentially unauthorized calls: The present invention seeks to avoid origination or continuation of unauthorized calls, while also avoiding the inconvenience, expense and uncertainty for call parties resulting from premature termination of calls because of erroneous or ill-founded suspicions that unauthorized activities are occurring. By permitting one or more parties to a call that... Agent: William Ryan Law Offices Of William Ryan

20090207988 - Method and system for telecommunication sessions using only initial signal messages: A telecommunications system includes a telecommunications network. The system includes n nodes, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 3, in communication with the network. The system includes a host node that creates a session through the network between the n nodes. The system includes an additional... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090207989 - Methods, systems, and products for timed ring suppression: Systems and methods for timed ring suppression are disclosed. After a communications device receives an incoming call and the ringer is activated to produce an initial audible alert, the ringer of the communications device may be silenced for subsequent audible alerts until the calling party hangs up or until the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090207991 - Enhanced telephony computer user interface allowing user interaction and control of a telephone using a personal computer: An enhanced telephony (ET) computer user interface that seamlessly integrates features of a personal computer (PC) and a telephone into a coherent user interface. The user is provided with a rich variety of functionality that leverages the fact that the PC has considerably more processing power and greater access to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090207990 - Telephone communication control apparatus, telephone communication system and telephone communication control method used for the same:

20090207992 - Call hold signaling: One or more elements in a telecommunications network (10, 10′ and 10″) receive a call hold-initiating message when a first party places a second party to the call on hold, and in doing so, triggers a call hold event in the network. In response to the call hold-initiating message, the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090207993 - Temporally defined contact default number for telephone: When a contact in an electronically-stored phone book has more than one telephone number associated with the contact's name, a user is permitted to define times (and if desired day/dates) for which each number is to serve as the default number for the contact, so if the user selects the... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090207994 - Telematics unit number provisioning: Examples of the invention are used to provide a system and method for provisioning a telematics unit number based on a phone number already used by a customer. In examples, the telematics unit is provisioned with a number that aligns with a rate center plan, which is likely to result... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

20090207995 - Method for managing communication events in a communication system: a

20090207996 - System and method for eliminating hold-time in phone calls: An independent calling system (ICS) used in a transaction between a waiting party and a queuing party includes the queuing party having a queuing calling system (QCS) with the ICS adapted to communicate with the QCS and determine a hold status of the transaction.... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090202047 - Implicit emergency registration set: A method for providing an implicit emergency registration set is disclosed. The method can include initiating an identifier selection procedure. The method can also include identifying whether a user has a dedicated emergency telephone uniform resource identifier (tel URI), and, if so, selecting it. The method can further include identifying,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090202048 - System and method for communication: The present invention is a system and method for providing a connection to an entity from a request made to a general database, the system having a central contact and a list or database of word sequences purchased by entities; wherein the list or database has an associated telephone number... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090202049 - Voice user interfaces based on sample call descriptions: A design interface is described for maintaining call information for creating a voice user interface. An initial set of sample call paths is defined for a dialog application. Each sample call path has associated call information including a sequence of system prompts and caller responses that model a user interaction... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090202050 - System and method for deep dialing phone systems: An independent communications system (ICS) is used in a transaction between a waiting party and a queuing party, with the queuing party having a interactive voice response (IVR). The IVR includes multiple nodes and the ICS is adapted to connect to a particular node in the IVR.... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090202051 - Custom voicemail greeting message based on caller: A method and apparatus for providing customized voicemail greeting messages. A user device is constructed with a memory unit storing a plurality of customized voicemail greeting messages in association with respective contact information. When the user device receives an incoming call from a caller and the call has not been... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090202052 - Method, system and article of manufacture for bookmarking voicemail messages: A voicemail system includes a voicemail bookmarking procedure that permits users to bookmark voicemail messages during message playback. Upon receiving a bookmark request from a user, the procedure generates a bookmark pointer defining a starting point for subsequent playback of the message. The bookmark pointer can be based, in part,... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090202053 - Method and device for preventing misuse of personal information: The invention disclosed comprises a method and device for receiving an order request from a first party along with contact information for the first party, routing at least some communication made using, or to, second contact information, such as may be provided to the first party, and providing at least... Agent: Law Office Of Michael J. Feigin

20090202054 - Automated distribution and indexing of prepaid calling card information: In certain embodiments, a system for automated distribution and indexing of prepaid calling card information comprises a central terminal operable to receive a request to purchase prepaid telephone services from an initiating terminal. The request comprises an identifier of a financial account to be used to purchase the prepaid telephone... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090202055 - System and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services. More particularly, prepaid telephone calls can be made by users without entering any access code, if such calls are made from telephone numbers previously registered in the telecommunication system in connection with valid access codes. Prepaid... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090202057 - Method for identifying undesired telephone calls: A method for identifying undesired telephone calls (Spit/Spam over IP), preferably in a VoIP network, in which the telephone calls coming in for a telephone subscriber, the callee, from at least one calling telephone subscriber, the caller, are subjected to a test or more precisely to a statistical analysis. The... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090202056 - Techniques for transfer error recovery: Techniques for transfer error recovery are described. A system may comprise a context generator module operative to record context information for a first call session between a first call terminal and a call system resource, and store the context information with a context identifier in a context table. The system... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090202058 - Telephonic automated action system: The disclosed system and methods enable meticulous communication between two parties initiated by an unanswered telephone call. Particularly, complex actions may be taken based on a called telephone number and calling line identification (CLI). A selected action may be any action performable by a computer, and may include multiple actions... Agent: Clock Tower Law Group

20090202059 - Memo service for telecommunications network: A method is provided in a telecommunications network (30) for supplying a first party (10) personal information about a second party (40) prior to completing establishment of a call between the parties over the network (30). The method includes: storing a number of records for the first party (10) in... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090202060 - Telephonic voice authentication and display: An improved solution for telephonic voice authentication and display is provided. A method of identifying conference call participants includes detecting a sound made by one of conference call participants; identifying this conference call participant based on the sound; and then displaying an attribute of the conference call participant to one... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090202061 - Method for identifying spit or spam for voip: The invention relates to a method for the computer-assisted identification of a class of VoIP calls of a first type (spam) in a communication network (internet). Said communication network has a plurality (N) of first subscribers (Tn1-1, . . . , Tn1-5) and a plurality (M) of second subscribers (Tn2-1,... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090202062 - System and method for communication: The present invention is a system and method for providing a connection to an entity from a request made to a general database, the system having a central contact and a list or database of word sequences purchased by entities; wherein the list or database has an associated telephone number... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090202063 - Controlling echo during double-talk in a voice conference: An echo canceller apparatus comprises a receive side attenuator coupled in a receive side signal path that is configured to couple from a conference call bridge to a caller; a convolution processor coupled to the receive side signal path at a convolution processor pick-off point; a double-talk detector coupled to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090202064 - Voice absorber for portable telephonic devices: The voice absorber of the present invention includes an absorption member and an attachment member and is adapted for use with portable telephonic devices to enable a user to engage in a more private conversation and limit the disruption to individuals nearby the user during the conversation. The shape of... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090202047 - Implicit emergency registration set: A method for providing an implicit emergency registration set is disclosed. The method can include initiating an identifier selection procedure. The method can also include identifying whether a user has a dedicated emergency telephone uniform resource identifier (tel URI), and, if so, selecting it. The method can further include identifying,... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090202048 - System and method for communication: The present invention is a system and method for providing a connection to an entity from a request made to a general database, the system having a central contact and a list or database of word sequences purchased by entities; wherein the list or database has an associated telephone number... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090202049 - Voice user interfaces based on sample call descriptions: A design interface is described for maintaining call information for creating a voice user interface. An initial set of sample call paths is defined for a dialog application. Each sample call path has associated call information including a sequence of system prompts and caller responses that model a user interaction... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090202050 - System and method for deep dialing phone systems: An independent communications system (ICS) is used in a transaction between a waiting party and a queuing party, with the queuing party having a interactive voice response (IVR). The IVR includes multiple nodes and the ICS is adapted to connect to a particular node in the IVR.... Agent: Carl M. Napolitano, Ph.d. Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20090202051 - Custom voicemail greeting message based on caller: A method and apparatus for providing customized voicemail greeting messages. A user device is constructed with a memory unit storing a plurality of customized voicemail greeting messages in association with respective contact information. When the user device receives an incoming call from a caller and the call has not been... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell & Law Firm

20090202052 - Method, system and article of manufacture for bookmarking voicemail messages: A voicemail system includes a voicemail bookmarking procedure that permits users to bookmark voicemail messages during message playback. Upon receiving a bookmark request from a user, the procedure generates a bookmark pointer defining a starting point for subsequent playback of the message. The bookmark pointer can be based, in part,... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090202053 - Method and device for preventing misuse of personal information: The invention disclosed comprises a method and device for receiving an order request from a first party along with contact information for the first party, routing at least some communication made using, or to, second contact information, such as may be provided to the first party, and providing at least... Agent: Law Office Of Michael J. Feigin

20090202054 - Automated distribution and indexing of prepaid calling card information: In certain embodiments, a system for automated distribution and indexing of prepaid calling card information comprises a central terminal operable to receive a request to purchase prepaid telephone services from an initiating terminal. The request comprises an identifier of a financial account to be used to purchase the prepaid telephone... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090202055 - System and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services: The present invention relates to a system and method for providing prepaid telecommunication services. More particularly, prepaid telephone calls can be made by users without entering any access code, if such calls are made from telephone numbers previously registered in the telecommunication system in connection with valid access codes. Prepaid... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090202057 - Method for identifying undesired telephone calls: A method for identifying undesired telephone calls (Spit/Spam over IP), preferably in a VoIP network, in which the telephone calls coming in for a telephone subscriber, the callee, from at least one calling telephone subscriber, the caller, are subjected to a test or more precisely to a statistical analysis. The... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090202056 - Techniques for transfer error recovery: Techniques for transfer error recovery are described. A system may comprise a context generator module operative to record context information for a first call session between a first call terminal and a call system resource, and store the context information with a context identifier in a context table. The system... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090202058 - Telephonic automated action system: The disclosed system and methods enable meticulous communication between two parties initiated by an unanswered telephone call. Particularly, complex actions may be taken based on a called telephone number and calling line identification (CLI). A selected action may be any action performable by a computer, and may include multiple actions... Agent: Clock Tower Law Group

20090202059 - Memo service for telecommunications network: A method is provided in a telecommunications network (30) for supplying a first party (10) personal information about a second party (40) prior to completing establishment of a call between the parties over the network (30). The method includes: storing a number of records for the first party (10) in... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090202060 - Telephonic voice authentication and display: An improved solution for telephonic voice authentication and display is provided. A method of identifying conference call participants includes detecting a sound made by one of conference call participants; identifying this conference call participant based on the sound; and then displaying an attribute of the conference call participant to one... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090202061 - Method for identifying spit or spam for voip: The invention relates to a method for the computer-assisted identification of a class of VoIP calls of a first type (spam) in a communication network (internet). Said communication network has a plurality (N) of first subscribers (Tn1-1, . . . , Tn1-5) and a plurality (M) of second subscribers (Tn2-1,... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090202062 - System and method for communication: The present invention is a system and method for providing a connection to an entity from a request made to a general database, the system having a central contact and a list or database of word sequences purchased by entities; wherein the list or database has an associated telephone number... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20090202063 - Controlling echo during double-talk in a voice conference: An echo canceller apparatus comprises a receive side attenuator coupled in a receive side signal path that is configured to couple from a conference call bridge to a caller; a convolution processor coupled to the receive side signal path at a convolution processor pick-off point; a double-talk detector coupled to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090202064 - Voice absorber for portable telephonic devices: The voice absorber of the present invention includes an absorption member and an attachment member and is adapted for use with portable telephonic devices to enable a user to engage in a more private conversation and limit the disruption to individuals nearby the user during the conversation. The shape of... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090196402 - Monitoring arrangements, having communication establishment information changed from initial communication establishment information: This present invention simplifies the installation work, the initialization, the operation confirmation, and the test run work of a monitor terminal in a field site that monitors a monitor object. Communication information and management information, such as a telephone number used to communicate with a communication terminal in a field... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090196403 - Method, system and apparatus for providing alternative multimedia ring back tone substitute service by using intelligent network: Disclosed is a method, a system, and an apparatus for providing a sound source, which has been encoded by using an audio codec, as a ringback tone alternative having an improved quality by adaptively applying various audio codecs according to the service type so that, when a mobile communication terminal... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090196404 - Method for setting voice tag: A method for setting a voice tag is provided, which comprises the following steps. First, counting a number of phone calls performed between a user and a contact person. If the number of phone calls exceeds a predetermined times or the user fails to perform a voice dialing before calling... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090196405 - Ivr to sms text messenger: A method is disclosed that includes receiving a selection of an interactive voice response (IVR) option. The method also includes receiving, at an IVR system, a first spoken message. The first spoken message is translated, at a translator, into a short message service (SMS) text message.... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20090196406 - System and method for remote screen monitoring: A computer system and method is disclosed for automatically establishing a screen sharing session between a first party and a second party based upon device associations. A computer telephony system establishes a telecommunication session between at least a first and second party. The computer telephony system receives a request for... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20090196407 - Telecommunications: According to one aim of the present invention there is provided a method, in a telecommunications network, of creating user-definable call handling functionality accessible by way of telephone call to a voice application, comprising: generating a call handling package comprising one or more conditions, and one or more call handling... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090196408 - Tune master caller identification device: Systems for providing a tune master caller identification (ID) device include a telecommunications network and a caller device configured to provide caller identification information for an incoming telephone call, and a tune master caller ID device that is coupled to a telephone device. The tune master caller ID device receives... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Tkhr Attn: Patent Docketing

20090196409 - Method for establishing a call: The present invention relates to a method for establishing a call from a calling party to an extension of a PBX. By providing the calling party with a graphical display of information of extension of the PBX the user may easy and fast select a desired extension.... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20090196410 - Method and system of call treatment based on a called party calendar: A method and system for coupling, e.g., via the Internet or via other data channel, calendar and scheduling information or data from a calendar and scheduling software application to a functional node of a telecommunications system such as a service platform, an application server or service control point. Alternatively, the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090196411 - System and method for a personal phone extension: A system and method for implementing extensions for a cordless telephone system. A menu configured to receive user input is displayed to a user for setting a configuration for routing incoming communications of the cordless telephone system to one or more of a plurality of handsets. An identifier of a... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090196412 - System and method for orders and troubles metric attribution identification and aggregation: A system and method for identifying, marking, retaining and aggregating attribute metrics for service order and trouble tickets (ticket data) may be performed as the service order and trouble tickets are loaded into a central data repository to allow user summary reports to be created. Ticket data may be received... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090196413 - Analog trunk and method for optimizing voice quality in analog trunk: A method for optimizing voice quality in an analog trunk is provided. The method includes setting a loop parameter to optimize an Echo Return Loss (ERL) property for a loop distance, generating a tone according to a value of the loop parameter and measuring ERL values from the tone, and... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP