Telephonic communications inventions 10/09

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