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Telephonic communications October categorized by USPTO classification 10/09

20090257565 - Multi-channel quiet calls: A system and method for simultaneously conducting multiple telephone conversations is provided. In an embodiment, a user converses with one individual on a first channel while simultaneously transmitting audible utterances to a second individual or a second channel. The user can select the desired channel or channels and a desired... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090257566 - Systems and methods for accessing information content while holding on a telephone call: Systems and methods are introduced for accessing information content while holding on a telephone call. Instructions provide an automated message voice recognition menu selection system when a caller is placed on hold. A spoken voice recognition response unit associates a category context and, responsive to the user category selection, provides... Agent: Matlock Law Gfoup, PC

20090257568 - Shared knowledge in a telephone system: An information handling system comprises a IP network connecting a hub to a multimedia server and the hub to a data server, and the hub to an IP telephony device that is then coupled to a network device. When a telephone in one local area network within a wide area... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090257567 - System and method for distributing voice and data information over wireless and wireline networks: A method and device for distributing both high-speed data service, such as digital computer, video and multimedia data, and lower speed data service, such as POTS voice telephone signals, throughout a customer premises. High-speed digital data and lower speed POTS voice signals are separated by a POTS splitter and distributed... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090257569 - Method and system for providing goods or services to a subscriber of a communications network: A method for providing goods or services to a subscriber of a communications network, the method including the steps of: (a) verifying (40) a calling party number; (b) verifying (42) the identity of the subscriber associated with the calling party number; (c) verifying (44) the age of the subscriber; and,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090257570 - System and method for accessing a messaging service using a short dialing sequence: A system and method for providing easy access to messaging services in a telecommunications network having office switches that are used by different providers of telephone and messaging services. The system uses a supplementary services database to maintain customer records including whether the customer uses messaging services and whether the... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Bhgl Attn: Patent Docketing Room 2a-207

20090257571 - Interface module: An interface module for a telecommunications network service entity, the interface module being operable to communicate with an application provided on the telecommunications network service entity and a session layer of the telecommunications network service entity, the interface module comprising a generic container to communicate with the application and a... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090257572 - Method for performing a telephone call: The invention relates to a method for performing a telephone call between a first user (1) and a second user (2), comprising: connecting a first user equipment (1a) of the first user (1) to a second user equipment (2a) of the second user (2) for establishing a telephone call between... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090257574 - Interface for voice communications: There is provided an interface viewable on a display for a communications apparatus used during a session for voice communications between at least two parties. The interface includes at least one edge of the display having a row of objects, each object of the row being for representing each of... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20090257573 - Select ring: Select Ring allows users of communication devices, such as cellular telephones, to designate which incoming calls may transmit voice, video, and/or text data via the device's loudspeaker and display screen while the phone is ringing and before the incoming call is accepted. Select Ring also allows users of communication devices... Agent: Timothy Keith Eubank

20090257575 - Methods and systems for improved caller name identification on a telephone network: A phone network in a wireless environment that does not perform CNAM queries when a number is already stored in the receiving handsets' caller directory. CNAM query fees are charged only to obtain caller information on a new caller. The network does not make CNAM queries when the caller information... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090257576 - Method, system and apparatus for requesting confirmation of a communication handling rule change: A method, system and apparatus of requesting confirmation of a communication handling rule change is provided. A proposed change to a set of communication handling rules is determined. A time within a schedule for requesting confirmation of the proposed change is determined. The confirmation of the proposed change requested, at... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090257577 - Method for indicating charge status of backup power supply and communication device employing the same: A method for indicating the charge status of a backup power supply of a communication device includes detecting the charge status of the backup power supply. If the charge status of the backup power supply is lower than or equal to a predetermined charge status, the communication device alerts via... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090257579 - Echo canceller: An echo canceller is capable of reducing echo feeling in a conversation even if a tone signal is input. The echo canceller of this invention judges whether a far-end input signal is a calling control tone signal or not, and if that is the case, resets a coefficient of an... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090257578 - Network apparatus capable of canceling far-end-crosstalk and network signal processing method thereof: The present invention provides a network apparatus capable of canceling far-end crosstalk (FEXT). When the network apparatus is under a training mode, hard data is provided to a FEXT canceller for performing FEXT cancellation. When the network apparatus is under a data mode, soft data is provided to the FEXT... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090257580 - Function for controlling line powered network element: A network element comprises a power interface to receive power from a power communication medium; a service interface to provide a telecommunication service over a service communication medium; management interface to receive management data over one of the service communication medium and the power communication medium via at least one... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20090257581 - Cooperative mimo for alien noise cancellation (comac) for upstream vdsl systems: Included are embodiments for reducing alien crosstalk. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving noise data associated with a first user signal on a first tone, receiving noise data associated with a second user signal on the first tone, and receiving at least one alien crosstalk canceller coefficient... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.L.P.

20090252302 - Emergency telephone with integrated surveillance system connectivity: Embodiments provide an emergency telephone system including an emergency telephone, an interface connecting the emergency telephone to a network, a camera on the network, the camera being focused on the emergency telephone, a control system for activating the camera, and a monitoring station for displaying camera captured data.... Agent: Moore Landrey

20090252303 - Telephone apparatus and method of making and receiving calls with urgency tags: Based on the urgency, the caller ads a priority tag number while making telephone calls. The called party receives the calls with different alarm features based on the urgency of the call. The called party can set profiles rules so that calls with a lower urgency may be blocked if... Agent: Sanjiv Agarwal

20090252304 - Communications methods and systems using voiceprints: In communications systems where multiple users may be associated with the same account, the voiceprint of a user is used to identify a profile of the user, facilitating identification of the user's preferences without requesting additional information from the user. The system may also monitor messages played to individual users,... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20090252305 - User interface with voice message summary: In one embodiment, a graphics user interface is provided. The graphics user interface includes a plurality of graphical representations. Each of the plurality of graphical representations identifies a separate voice message. A summary of content of each of the separate voice messages is displayed for each of the plurality of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090252306 - Telemedicine system and method: The telemedicine system and method includes an ubiquitous telephone and interactive voice response (IVR) system configured to interface with a hub, and in some embodiments, with medical sensor devices directly. The system and method allows an interested party to interface with the hub using a telephone. The system and method... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20090252307 - Method and system for incorporating audio clips during a voice call: A method and a system for incorporating audio clips during a voice call between a calling subscriber A and at least one called subscriber B is provided. At least one of the subscribers A or B incorporates a desired audio clip into the voice call by a press of a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090252308 - Method, system and apparatus for handling establishment of a communication session: According to various embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method, system and apparatus for handling establishment of a communication session. A method of handling establishment of one or more communication sessions comprises receiving from a user an indication of user's desire to cause establishment of the one... Agent: Sean Murray

20090252309 - System and method for authenticating a communication device: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to transmit to a communication system a PKI certificate, and engage in encrypted communications responsive to receiving a public key from the communication system. The communication system can have a plurality... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090252310 - Dial up telephone conferencing system controlled by an online computer network: In a telephone conferencing system, a digital communication network such as the Internet is used to establish and control the telephone connections between multiple conferees with the telephone network being the means of exchanging verbal information. Each conferee may have a computer connected to the digital network, and each has... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP

20090252311 - Electronic device with motion controlled functions: An electronic device may be controlled with a remote control device. The remote control device may be moved in a first manner to cause the electronic device to scroll through an ordered sequence. The remote control device may be moved in a second manner to cause the electronic device to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090252312 - Service communication list: A method for displaying communication events is provided. The method includes collecting past, present, and future communication events from two or more communication services, where a communication device performs the collecting; combining the past, present, and future communication events into a communication events list, where the communication device performs the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090252313 - Communication terminal apparatus and transmission history control method: In a communication terminal apparatus having a telephone function, an information communication mode function and a transmission history display function, when transmission based on a telephone number described in an electronic information content such as an electronic mail, a website or the like is performed, the electronic information content is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090252314 - Establishing and recovering context related to an on-going sequence of communications: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that teach methods for establishing context of a subsequent electronic real-time communication. One method detects a connection attempt that is initiated by an instigator-identifiable for a subsequent electronic real-time communication that is directed to a target-identifiable. The instigator-identifiable is associated with a... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090252315 - Audio signal routing: A communication system that includes multiple conferencing devices connected in a daisy-chain configuration is communicably connected to far-end conference participants. Multiple conferencing devices provide improved sound quality to the far-end participants by reducing aural artifacts resulting from reverberation and echo. The daisy-chain communication system also reduces the processing and transmission... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090252316 - Distributed bridging: A communication system that includes multiple conferencing devices connected in a daisy-chain configuration is communicably connected to far-end conference participants. Multiple conferencing devices provide improved sound quality to the far-end participants by reducing aural artifacts resulting from reverberation and echo. The daisy-chain communication system also reduces the processing and transmission... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090252317 - Method of managing a telecommunications system for adaptive serial ringing and program product therefor: A method of managing communications in a communications network and a program product therefore. Users provide lists of expected future locations, e.g., Serial Ringing (SR) lists. As each call traverses a user's SR-list to contact a respective user, the user's current location (i.e., the endpoint at which a call is... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252319 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically displaying customized call center operating statistics based on user profile information: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically displaying customized call center operating statistics based on user profile information. According to one aspect, a method for automatically displaying customized call center operating statistics based on user profile information is provided. The method includes receiving... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090252320 - System and method for multi-channel communication queuing: An apparatus and method for coordinating communication between one or more agents and a plurality of communication channels associated with different media formats such as telephone, email, and fax. A first request in a first media format can be received via a first communication channel and a second request in... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090252318 - Service wait time notification: A system for communicating service information to a potential customer is provided. The system includes one or more potential customer devices, one or more session initiation protocol (SIP) client devices, and a SIP server. The SIP server is operable to determine an estimated service wait time based on information received... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090252321 - Method and device for creating a media signal: Embodiments relate to a method for rendering a media signal in a communication terminal, comprising the steps of, under control of a control unit in the communication terminal: receiving a transmission over a network, selecting media files stored in the communication terminal in a first order forming a media signal,... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090245475 - Method for identifying a device transmitting an echo signal, echo source identifying method for identifying echo source, measuring apparatus for identifying a source of an echo, and echo source identifying apparatus: A method for identifying among a plurality of devices, through which a voice communication path is connected, a device transmitting an echo signal onto the voice communication path, includes transmitting a predetermined signal to each of the devices from a predetermined portion on the voice communication path, receiving a response... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090245476 - Estimation of transmission line insertion loss: A method and arrangement for estimating line insertion loss of a customer transmission line at a frequency (f1) or a plurality of frequencies. Values of line insertion loss for at least two reference transmission lines are pre-measured at each frequency and stored in a memory. A calibration quantity representing an... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090245477 - Systems and methods for providing emergency contact services: An emergency contact platform provides emergency contact services where usual communications have been disrupted. The emergency contact platform may include a server to receive registration information including a phone number associated with a phone when communication using the phone is impracticable. The server may also be configured to receive an... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090245478 - Ip telephone set, ip telephone system, and dialing method in the ip telephone set: An IP telephone set 4 is provided with a power failure adapter 5. During power failure, a function of the power failure adapter 5 is enabled so that the IP telephone set 4 is connected to an analog network 3 via the power failure adapter 5. As a result, the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090245479 - Interactive voice advertisement exchange: An interactive voice advertisement exchange presents an interactive voice advertisement to a user of a voice network who is placed on hold. After the user sends a signal response from a user device to a receiving system and is placed on hold, the hold time and a parameter associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090245480 - Device, method and computer readable medium for recorded data management: There is provided a device for managing recorded data, comprising: a recording unit configured to record a telephone communication; a designation unit configured to designate a time delimiting point to be set to recorded data being recorded by the recording unit; a receiving unit configured to receive a signal indicating... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090245481 - Method, system and apparatus for implementing color ring service: A method, system, and apparatus for implementing a color ring service. The method includes the following steps: playing, by a Color Ring Back Tone platform, a whole ring tone according to a selection of a subscriber; and obtaining, by the Color Ring Back Tone platform, a ring tone section of... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090245482 - Accumulative decision point data analysis system for telephony and electronic communications operations: A system for generating usage statistics for a communications routing system from data generated at routing points and at end points of the system has a processor having access to the communications routing system for analyzing the data and generating the statistics, and a server having access to the processor... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090245483 - Information processing terminal device and method for notifying missed call or unread e-mail: An information processing terminal device includes a state monitoring unit that monitors whether or not there exits an unread e-mail or a missed call, a light order control unit that makes an emitting unit emit a color corresponding to each sender in a given order when the unread e-mail or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090245484 - Ordering telephone messages left for a user: A method that associates the first telephone number of a first user with a second telephone number of a second user that has a relationship with the first user; tracks incoming and outgoing telephone calls; and stores a plurality of telephone messages received by the first user. For each telephone... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.l.p. (ibm)

20090245485 - Push voicemail via \"always on\": Solutions which address a growing and compelling need recognized in connection with rendering VOIP systems on laptops, or even on other mobile devices, even more versatile and user-friendly so as to even better replicate the advantages of cell phones. Broadly contemplated herein two modes of network access and two modes... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20090245486 - Method and system for in-progress voicemail transfer based on identity: A method, system and computer-usable medium for terminating an in-progress voicemail and immediately connecting callers to each other based on identity. A telephone system can be enabled to detect that a calling party (e.g., subscriber “A”) receives no answer from a called party (e.g., subscriber “B”) and if the calling... Agent: Ibm Corporation (endicott) C/o Ortiz & Lopez

20090245487 - Device for alerting a telephone caller when a live person is reached: An apparatus and method of use are disclosed that monitor a telephone call and alert the caller when a live person is reached. The apparatus includes a computing device, a telephone interface, live person detecting software, and a caller alert system. Preferred embodiments include a digitizer, and some embodiments transmit... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090245488 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus includes at least two communication units that are mutually communicable; an incoming call detection device that is configured to detect presence or absence of an incoming call signal; a notification device that is configured to provide a user, when an incoming call signal is detected by the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090245489 - Automated system for soliciting charitable donations: A method of telephone soliciting charitable contributions comprises identifying prior contributors to or members of an entity desiring funding, identifying a telephone number associated with each prospective contributor, creating a series of suggested donations each associated with a specific touch tone telephone key, creating a recorded contribution solicitation including suggested... Agent: Michael A. O'neil, P.c.

20090245490 - Integrated telephony and video system: An integrated telephony and video system allows a viewer of a program to selectively accept a telephone call based on caller identification information and automatically buffer the program upon acceptance of the call. When the call is terminated, the buffered program is played from the point of interruption until the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090245491 - Digital information device and method for processing calls: A digital information device enhanced for processing calls between a local user and a remote user includes a transceiving module, a video processing module, and a call processing module. The transceiving module is configured for receiving an incoming call from and transmitting an outgoing call to the remote user. The... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090245492 - Survivable phone behavior using sip signaling in a sip network configuration: Provided are methods, devices, and systems for maintaining a SIP survivable User Agent. The present invention is adapted to allow the User Agent to detect the status of the network, thus providing the User Agent to perform failover/failback operations. The User Agent may be adapted to determine the status of... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.c.

20090245493 - System and method for displaying call flows and call statistics: The system and method identify a plurality of call flow events in a call analysis system. Call statistics are associated with the call flow events. The call flow events are organized into event groups each containing a plurality of call flow events. Once an event group is selected, call statistics... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20090245494 - System and method for recording communication activities: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to monitor incoming and outgoing calls associated with one or more communication devices, identify communication identifiers initiating the incoming calls and communication identifiers targeted by the outgoing calls, determine one or more... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090245495 - Method and apparatus for presenting communication identifiers: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve a telephone number having an area code, an exchange code, and an extension code, generate from the telephone number at least one additional dialing format, present a plurality of... Agent: At&t Legal Department - As Attn: Patent Docketing

20090245496 - Service change and service fallback in intelligent networks: A technique for service change and service fallback in intelligent networks is described. The network comprises a service control functional component (516) and a service switching functional component (518). A method implementation of the technique includes the step of obtaining (4) from the service switching functional component (518) service preference... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090245497 - Telecommunications system, method of managing a telecommunications system for optimized bandwidth usage during conference calls and program product therefor: A telecommunications system, method of managing a telecommunications system and program product therefore. Telecommunications system branches are linked to a network and to each other in a wide area network (WAN). Each branch includes telecommunications devices and a media processor that supports a concurrent port for each local telecommunications device.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090245498 - Identification and determination of non-preemptable calls: An active call between two parties can be marked as a non-preemptable call if one of the two parties is an authorized agency that desires to prevent premature termination of the call by a third party. The authorized agency sends a signal to a main switch to indicate that non-preemptable... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090245499 - Call transfer system and call transfer control method: A home presence server has a storage area in which a SIP URI (hereinafter URI) of a call destination and a URI of a transfer destination are correspondingly stored. When a SIP server in a network receives a call-out request containing the URI of a first terminal being a call... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.c.

20090245500 - Artificial intelligence assisted live agent chat system: An artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted live agent chat system allows a single live agent to handle an increased number of simultaneous chat sessions by having an AI system handle the bulk of common, repeat questions. The AI system will allow the live agent to focus his or her attention on the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090245501 - Apparatus and method for executing agent: Systems for executing a number of agents in a multiagent system are presented including: an agent executing apparatus for managing a number of active agents and for controlling activities associated with the number of active agents such that the number of active agents are cooperatively processed, where the agent executing... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.c.

20090245502 - Acoustic echo canceler: An echo canceler is constituted of an adaptive filter for generating an echo replica simulating an echo occurring in an echo path lying between a speaker and a microphone, a subtracter for subtracting the echo replica from the sound received by the microphone, a double-talk detector which extracts a prescribed... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090245503 - Device for canceling crosstalk, signal processing system and method for canceling crosstalk: A method for canceling crosstalk, the method includes the steps of: filtering the signal corresponding to a far end crosstalk source in the frequency domain according to adaptive filter parameter; combining the received signal corresponding to a far end sending signal and the filtered signal in frequency domain corresponding to... Agent: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20090245504 - Power supply with digital control loop: m