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Telephonic communications September class, title,number 09/10

20100246779 - Communication apparatus: A communication apparatus including: a semiconductor DAA which performs line closing and opening processings; and a controller including; an adjustment controlling section which controls the semiconductor DAA such that a line voltage and a line current upon closing a line fall within a predetermined range; an adjustment-control starting section which... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100246780 - System and method for providing a circuit switched domain number: A method is provided for identifying a device during an emergency for callback. The method includes storing an address of a user agent (UA) during initiation of an emergency call by the UA, associating an E.164 number with the stored address of the UA that placed the emergency call, and... Agent: Research In Motion Corp./cr Attn: J. Robert Brown

20100246781 - System and method for managing emergency calls: A system and method for managing emergency calls are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving an emergency related call at a call center, and during the emergency related call, retrieving information related to i) a type of incident being reported, ii) a location of the incident being reported, and iii)... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20100246782 - Picture phone interactive voice response system and method: Disclosed is a simplified interactive solution for providing access to back-end services. A communication is established from a communication device to a processing system. The processing system receives a picture from the communication device. The user is presented with tasks (services to perform on the picture) on an IVR menu... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100246783 - Method and apparatus for enabling a calling party to leave a voice message for a called party in response to a command provided by the calling party: A method for allowing a calling party to leave a message for a called party. The method comprises: receiving a command provided by the calling party and indicative of a desire of the calling party to leave a message for the called party; obtaining message destination information associated with the... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20100246784 - Conversation support: A method may include receiving, at a first device associated with a first party, communications from a second device. The communications may be associated with a communication session that includes an audio conversation, a text-based conversation or a multimedia conversation. The method may also include identifying a word or phrase... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246785 - User-initiated return communication: Techniques to defer an incoming communication and then schedule a follow up communication are disclosed. A communication recipient can defer an incoming communication and schedule a return communication time. The return communication may be manually deferred by a user and/or automatically deferred based at least in part on availability of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100246786 - Telephone outlet for implementing a local area network over telephone lines and a local area network using such outlets: A network for transporting power and multiplexed data and digital telephone signals. The network includes at least three nodes and first and second wiring segments in a building for carrying the multiplexed data and digital telephone signals, and at least one of the segments is configured to additionally carry a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20100246787 - System and method for providing callers with local time and other information at called locations: A system and method for distributing remote location information to callers who place calls to the remote locations may include storing information at a central computing system. The information may be associated with locations in multiple different time zones and include telephone number identifiers and local times associated with the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100246788 - Multi-point to multi-point intercom system: A multi-point to multi-point intercom system, formed by at least one intercom server and a plurality of intercom terminals, the intercom terminals registered as talking or listening intercom terminals in an intercom session table. The intercom server sends to listening intercom terminals some or all of the unmixed audio packets... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100246790 - Enabling creation of converged internet protocol multimedia subsystem services by third-party application developers using session initiation protocol support: A plurality of pure operator type rules are instantiated within a domain of a telecommunications operator and a plurality of pure application type rules are instantiated within a domain of a third party telecommunications application provider. The plurality of pure operator type rules and the plurality of pure application type... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100246789 - Providing event data to a group of contacts: Data related to an event is provided to a group of contacts while the event is occurring via an event user interface that enables the group of contacts to coordinate with one another during the event. In this regard, an event coordination service is provides the event data to each... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100246791 - Calendar-based return communication: Techniques to defer an incoming communication and then schedule a follow up communication are disclosed. A communication recipient can defer an incoming communication and schedule a return communication time. The return communication may be manually deferred by a user and/or automatically deferred based at least in part on availability of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100246792 - Administering participant attendance of teleconferences: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and products for administering participant attendance of teleconferences, including monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone; determining, by the teleconference administration device in dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20100246793 - Sequenced telephony applications upon call disconnect method and apparatus: Mechanisms and methods for providing sequenced applications upon communications session termination are provided. More particularly, a variety of messages, transcriptions, recordings, information sharing, billing, verification, participant listing, reporting, date and time stamping, linkages to other applications, launching of software programs, initiation of one or more subsequent communications sessions via the... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100246794 - Do not call list enforcement system and method: A system and method for reducing unwanted telemarketing calls may include storing a contact list for users of a telephone assigned to an associated telephone number. An incoming telephone call from a caller may be intercepted and a determination may be made as to whether the caller is in the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100246795 - Method and system for adding a caller in a blocked list: A method and system for adding a caller (102) in a blocked list is provided. The blocked list is stored at a communication server (104). The method includes receiving (604) a call from the caller (102) at a communication device (108). Further, the method includes receiving (606) a set of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20100246796 - Forwarding apparatus, telephone server, forwarding method, and forwarding system: A forwarding apparatus includes: a transmission source acquisition part for acquiring a first telephone number of a telephone corresponding to a transmission source of digital information; a call destination receiving part for receiving, from the telephone server, a second telephone number of a telephone called through the telephone number acquired... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100246797 - Social network urgent communication monitor and real-time call launch system: A complete social network based, urgent matter, communications solution and response system is provided. The system can monitor one or more social networks (or other sources of information) for the presence of keywords, scalar urgency ratings, the identity and/or number of the parties submitting the urgent requests, temporal factors such... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100246801 - Method and system for monitoring and managing multi-sourced call centers: A mid-point call management node subject to monitoring through a workstation communicatively coupled thereto, provides call services (e.g., through extensible markup language (XML), and in particular call control extensible markup language (CCXML) and/or voice extensible markup language (VXML), instructions) for an inbound call received from an originating network at an... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100246799 - Methods and apparatus for deep interaction analysis: A method and apparatus for automatically sectioning an interaction into sections, in order to get more insight into interactions. The method and apparatus include training, in which a model is generated upon training interactions and available tagging information, and run-time in which the model is used towards sectioning further interactions.... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20100246798 - System and method for determining a user request: A method for determining a user request involves receiving an image at a call center and generating a mathematical representation associated with the image. The method further includes using the image mathematical representation and a pre-selected image mathematical representation (previously associated with an action) to identify a user request that... Agent: Julia Church Dierker Dierker & Associates, P.C.

20100246800 - System and method for managing a contact center with a graphical call connection metaphor: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing communications in a callcenter. The method includes presenting via a GUI to a callcenter agent a set of connected graphical elements representing a structure of a communication session including the callcenter agent and a caller, receiving input via... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP - Avaya Inc.

20100246803 - Bandwidth extension apparatus for automatically adjusting the bandwidth of inputted signal and a method therefor: A bandwidth extension apparatus can generate from an inputted speech signal a bandwidth-extended signal whose bandwidth is automatically adjusted according to the surrounding hearing situation by means of a parameter. The apparatus has a surrounding characteristic predictor for predicting the characteristic amount of the surrounding sound of the phone terminal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100246802 - Method and system for compensating audio signals during a communication session: An approach is provided for compensating audio signals during a communication session by receiving audio signals from parties to the communication session, sampling the audio signals to determine signal level and noise floor, and compensating the audio signals to bring each signal to approximately an equal level based on the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100246804 - Mitigation of echo in voice communication using echo detection and adaptive non-linear processor: Architecture that mitigates echo in voice communications using echo detection and adaptive management of attenuation by a non-linear processor (NLP). Suppression values provided by the NLP are determined based on echo detection and retained on a case-by-case basis to automatically increase or decrease the attenuation as needed. Feedback is incorporated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100246805 - Crosstalk identification for spectrum management in broadband telecommunications systems: Crosstalk between subscriber loops used to transmit different broadband services through the same bundled telephone cable is a significant limitation to providing digital subscriber line services. A method for estimating the crosstalk, identifying the sources of the crosstalk and predicting additional sources of crosstalk are disclosed. The crosstalk sources are... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20100246806 - Integrated thin client and telephony device: A telephony apparatus connectable to a communication network and printed circuit board are provided. The telephony apparatus includes a package having a telephone footprint and comprising at least one connector to the communication network; a thin client device housed within the package, the thin client device connectable to a thin... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20100246807 - Headphone device: A headphone device includes: two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back; a contact determination unit determining the occurrence of contact with respect to a telephone device; a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from the telephone device; a second audio-collecting unit for collecting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100239074 - Methods and systems for providing foreign call back number compatibility for voip e9-1-1 calls: Systems and methods provide foreign call back number compatibility. The systems and methods receive a local telephone number assigned to a subscriber, the subscriber having a non-local telephone number as the normal calling number of the subscriber. Furthermore, the systems and methods query a database with the local telephone number... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100239075 - System and method for providing local interactive voice response services: A system and method for providing local interactive voice response (IVR) services is provided. A local computer system having associated telephony equipment and installed at a local facility (e.g., a retail store of a chain, etc.) receives telephone calls to the local facility. The local computer system generates IVR prompts... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Newark

20100239076 - Providing called number characteristics to click-to-dial customers: A system and method to provide content and call attributes for a destination phone number using a click-to-dial connection includes accepting a query, retrieving links to a document, and searching through cached data using the query to identify relevant or destination number information. If no match is found, the method... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Gt Attn: Patent Docketing

20100239077 - Multimedia communication session coordination across heterogeneous transport networks: The present invention, in one embodiment, is directed to the use of a communication pathway traversing a digital telephone network to handle a portion of the signaling traffic associated with a communication method performed over the Internet.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20100239078 - System, method and apparatus for transmitting audio signals over a voice channel: An embodiment of a system for transmitting an audio signal over a voice channel of a voice communication session includes a base station. The base station includes an audio player docking station configured for coupling the base station with an audio player device, and at least one processor. The at... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100239079 - System and method for transmitting communication data: A system and method for transmitting communication data of a fixed line phone include acquiring the communication data of the fixed line phone, writing the communication data into a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The system and method further include establishing a communication between the fixed line phone and a... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100239080 - Familiarization augmentation system and technology (fast) dialer: The present invention relates to the field of telecommunications. More particularly, to an apparatus that would allow callers to time-share telephone, telecommunication or communication lines in order to truthfully vary the telephone line from which they are calling parties through the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). The system would allow... Agent: Luis Figarella

20100239082 - Apparatus, system, and method for automated call initiation: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automated call initiation. The method for automated call initiation includes initiating a call to a destination using a first communication line. The method also includes initiating a call status determination that determines when a person answers the call at the destination. Furthermore,... Agent: David J. Mckenzie PLLC

20100239081 - Dynamic configuration of call controls for communication peripherals: Callers of an enhanced communication system are enabled to improve their communication experience by receiving context specific call controls on their peripheral device before, during, and/or after a call. A communication application determines context specific commands and configures/reconfigures call controls on the peripheral device. The peripheral device displays the call... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20100239083 - Method for restricting and remotely configuring call forwarding services: The present invention provides a method for restricting and remotely configuring call forwarding service in wireless or wireline communication systems. An originating switch receives a call request from a calling communication unit. The call request includes an indication that the caller does not want this call to be forwarded if... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Docket Administrator

20100239085 - Cross channel contact history management: Apparatus and methods for providing customer interaction information to a business channel. The apparatus and methods may involve receiving from a first business channel a first customer interaction data structure corresponding to a customer interaction, storing a data object corresponding to the first customer interaction data structure; and providing to... Agent: Weiss & Arons, LLP

20100239084 - Memorable telephone number identification: A computing device includes a processing unit and a system memory connected to the processing unit. The system memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to: retrieve a pool of telephone numbers; analyze repeating digits and perform pattern matching for each number in... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20100232578 - Line testing: Embodiments related to line testing are described and depicted.... Agent: Spryip, LLC Ifx

20100232579 - System and method for playing back individual conference callers: A teleconferencing system receives at least two streams that are parts of a live conference and individually records at least one of the streams. During the conference, a conferencing system receives a request from a communication device that is participating in the conference for at least a portion of at... Agent: Avaya Inc. Margaret Carmichael, Docketing Specialist

20100232580 - Personal voice-based information retrieval system: The present invention relates to a system for retrieving information from a network such as the Internet. A user creates a user-defined record in a database that identifies an information source, such as a web site, containing information of interest to the user. This record identifies the location of the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100232581 - Identification of notifications in a mass notification system: A method for providing identification for voice notifications sent to notification recipients is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a user, a request for transmitting at least one voice notification to a plurality of notification recipients, and receiving at least one identifier related to the at least one voice notification.... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20100232583 - System and method for message storage assurance in a geographically distributed voice messaging system: A voice messaging system comprises a common message store, a local data store located remotely from the common message store, and a media server. The media server is operable to receive a call directed to a number serviced by the media server, prompt the user for a voice message, direct... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20100232582 - System and method for outbound calling from a distributed telecommunications platform: Outbound calling from a Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) based voicemail system, which has distributed architecture, is disclosed. The voicemail system includes a media server, which is in communication with a telephone network. The media server includes multiple communication termination-link components, and the communication termination-link components are adapted to couple... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20100232584 - Software-based operator switchboard: A system and computer program product for providing a software-based operator switchboard for a phone system provide improved functionality, with greater simplicity, than conventional techniques. A telecommunications system may comprise an operator switchboard computer system displaying and receiving input with a graphical user interface indicating an operation to be performed... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100232585 - System and method for utilizing customer data in a communication system: Systems and methods for utilizing customer data in a communication system are provided. In exemplary embodiments, customer records at a customer data warehousing system are accessed. Customer data from the customer records are extracted and associated with a customer identifier. The customer data is then stored to an indexed database,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100232586 - Caller information system: A system is provided for managing telephone calls made to special service numbers. Information extracted from incoming telephone calls can be received by a system server and cross-referenced with a database to obtain cross-referenced caller information pertaining to previous customer telephone calls and/or in person customer meetings. The cross-referenced caller... Agent: Alford Law Group, Inc.

20100232587 - Advanced availability detection: A method is provided in which determines user availability on the basis of the manner in which a person uses a computing device that is associated with a telecommunications terminal. Specifically, the present invention is for a method in which a telecommunications terminal determines whether its user is available to... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100232588 - Enhanced service levels for call-processing services: Service levels for call-processing are enhanced based on the subscriber status of at least one of the calling party and the called party. In one example, a calling party (caller) places a call to a called party (recipient). At least one of the parties subscribes to a call-processing service and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100232590 - Intelligent outbound calling: A method, system, and computer program product for providing Intelligent Outbound Calling provides enhanced calling services even when the called party is not a customer to such a service. A method for providing calling services may comprise storing contact information for a customer, the contact information comprising information relating to... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20100232589 - Method for initiating automatic telecommunication sessions: A method that allows customers to connect remotely with customer service representatives by continuously monitoring the customers with cameras. Images from the cameras are sent to a computerized system that employs image processing techniques to determine when assistance is sought by a customer. When the customer is deemed in need... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20100232591 - Electronic telephone directory system: An electronic telephone directory system is described. Each entry in the directory has summary information, category specific information, and associated categories. The system displays a different view of the category specific information depending on categories associated with an entry. For example, a restaurant may have a detailed view that shows... Agent: Rodney Valentine

20100232593 - Converged telephone number mapping for call completion among hybrid communication services: System(s) and method(s) are provided for enabling routing and call completion among hybrid communication services. A client component receives a request to establish a call session, the request includes a service identifier tag that uniquely discloses a requested communication service. Client component validates the tag, and generates a query that... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100232594 - Method and system for a multitenancy telephone network: A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including a call queue that stores call requests received from a plurality of users; an expandable and contractible telephony resource cluster that establishes call sessions for call requests; a analysis system that calculates capacity requirements of the system; a resource... Agent: Schox PLC

20100232592 - Proactive telephone number mapping configuration management: Methods and apparatus for enabling efficient telephone number mapping (ENUM) based call routing during area code splits are presented herein. An ENUM domain management component can associate an ENUM domain name with multiple records when a numbering plan area code split links an old area code of a telephone number... Agent: At&t Legal Department - T&w Attn: Patent Docketing

20100232595 - System and method for speech-enabled call routing: A method includes receiving speech of a call from a caller at a processor of a call routing system. The method includes using the processor to determine a first call destination for the call based on the speech. The method includes using the processor to determine whether the caller is... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Toler Attn: Patent Docketing

20100232596 - Splitter card with integral test access: A splitter card having integral test access devices. The splitter card allows test access to be readily provided at any location where splitter cards are typically mounted (e.g., a splitter chassis).... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100226480 - Method and apparatus for detecting long unterminated phone wiring loops: A method and apparatus for detecting unterminated phone line loops. The method comprises generating a voltage differential pulse across a phone line loop, measuring a voltage differential across the phone line loop, and determining if the phone line loop is properly terminated based upon the measured differential. The apparatus comprises... Agent: MoserIPLaw Group / Vonage

20100226481 - Apparatus and method for providing emergency and alarm communications: An apparatus and method for establishing emergency and alarm communications between devices via an interface device are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device comprises an input, an output, and logic. The input receives data in a first format from the first device. The logic detects whether the data... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20100226482 - System and method for recording and distributing customer interactions: A system and method for recording and distributing calls are provided. A call may be associated with an information record. Parameters in the information record may be used to determine if the call is to be recorded. Parameters in the information record may be used to determine a method of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20100226483 - A method of and a communications system for playing a message to a calling party: A method of and a communications system (50) for playing a message to a calling party (1) when the calling party (1) calls a called party (2) and the called party (2) is alerted to the call. The message (30) is also played after the called party (2) disconnects (26)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100226484 - Method of operating a telecommunications system for providing a remotely accessible personal telephone directory: A driver observation system has a plurality of camera modules mounted to an exterior area of a vehicle for providing real time video images on an exterior area of the vehicle. A control mechanism is coupled to the plurality of camera modules to control operation of each of the plurality... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20100226485 - Telephone apparatus, image display method and image display processing program: A telephone apparatus includes a storage unit, a display unit, a retrieving unit and a display control unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of images therein. The display unit is configured to display at least one of the plurality of images. The retrieving unit is configured... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20100226487 - Method & apparatus for controlling the state of a communication system: A networked conferencing device includes at least one speaker, a display and a plurality of environmental sensors such as cameras, microphones, light level sensors, thermal sensors and motion sensors. The conferencing device receives environmental information from the sensors and processes this information to identify qualified events. The identified qualified events... Agent: Robert C. Schluer

20100226486 - Method of informing a teleconference participant that a person-of-interest has become active within the teleconference: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system inform a teleconference participant that a person-of-interest has become active within the teleconference. A user is identified. A person-of-interest, an alert condition, and a notification method are received from the user. The identification, the alert condition, and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100226488 - System and method for enhanced address resolution: As Mobile Subscribers increasingly employ their Wireless Devices to perform an ever expanding array activities an element that may reside in various portions of a messaging infrastructure and which efficiently and flexibly supports enhanced message address resolution capabilities.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20100226489 - Method and apparatus for providing improved support to users on interactive voice response breakout session: In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining context information associated with a call into a call center. The context information includes at least one input provided by a caller during the call. The method also includes determining when the caller requests an interaction with an agent associated with the call... Agent: Patent Capital Group - Cisco

20100226490 - Virtual call center manager: An approach is provided for providing a virtual call center by receiving a request for service from a user (e.g., subscriber) and staffing the virtual call center with virtual agents selected based on the service requirements of the user and the rich presence information of the virtual agents. The rich... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100226491 - Noise cancellation for phone conversation: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for noise cancellation of phone conversation. Some of the systems can include a phone having a microphone and a noise cancellation device. In some examples, the noise cancellation device has a microphone for receiving an input sound wave and positioned proximate the... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100226492 - Echo canceller canceling an echo according to timings of producing and detecting an identified frequency component signal: An echo canceller includes an initial delay estimator producing a reference signal containing an identified frequency component masked by means of frequency masking effect to output the reference signal on an echo path, and detecting, from a sending voice signal, an echo component of the identified frequency component derived from... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20100220840 - Teletypewriter (tty) for communicating pre-stored emergency messages to public safety answering points (psaps): A system and method for communicating a pre-stored emergency message from a TTY to a PSAP may include, in response to receiving an emergency call signal, accessing a pre-stored emergency message stored in a memory. A PSAP may be dialed. In one embodiment, the PSAP may be dialed by the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20100220841 - Neckloop for teleloop hearing aid system: The invention relates to a neckloop for being coupled with a transformer element and for generating an electromagnetic signal for being received by a telecoil of a hearing device or by an induction receiver. In order to avoid strangulation of the person wearing the neckloop the neckloop comprises a teleloop... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100220842 - Method and system for timed interaction with an interactive voice response system: Provided are methods and systems associated with interactive voice response (“IVR”) systems that control the amount of time a user interacts with the system. According to the invention, an IVR system utilizes a timer or series of timers to determine how long a user has been interacting with the IVR... Agent: Sprint

20100220843 - System and method for providing audible messages in replacement of telephone tones: A computer implemented system and method for providing at least one audible message at a communication device in replacement of a pre-determined telephone tone. There is provided a tone detector interface for detecting the pre-determined telephone tone provided at the communication device; an audible messages database accessible to the tone... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20100220844 - Method and arrangement for capturing of voice during a telephone conference: Method of and arrangement for associating voice clips with a document, the document being reviewed by at least one participant during a telephone conference set up between a convener communication set (T5, C5) and one or more participant communication sets (T1-T4, C1-C4), where the voice clips contain spoken comments by... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20100220848 - Method and communication device for providing telephone conferences: The invention relates to a method for providing a telephone conference between a first communication device and at least one second communication device in a communication network, in which upon detection of a key being pressed on a second communication device to initiate a conference, the time of detection is... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20100220847 - Method and system for conference call scheduling via e-mail: A method and system for conference call scheduling using e-mail. The method and system can receive and parse an e-mail received from a conference moderator, containing scheduling and participant information and schedule a conference call with minimal further user intervention. In essence, the method and system can operate as a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20100220846 - System and method for reconnecting a device to a group call: A system and method for reestablishing a voice communications session moderated by a group call server between two or more telephony devices. The method is performed by a processor monitoring the communications session. The method comprises: storing one or more data records representing group call information; detecting disconnection of at... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20100220845 - Systems and methods for facilitating conference calls using security keys: Systems and methods are described that facilitate a conference call between a plurality of communication devices. The method may comprise: providing a first primary communication device; providing a second primary communication device; providing a conference call controller; establishing a first control link between the first primary communication device and the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220849 - System and method for call management: A method and system for call management is provided. In a system embodiment a call manager server is provided that can managing incoming call requests from certain telephony devices and effect connections to other telephony devices based on those incoming call requests. The call manager server can also maintain a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220850 - System and method for enabling encrypted voice communications between an external device and telephony devices associated with an enterprise network: A telecommunication system that can selectively establish communications with one of a plurality of telephony devices associated with a particular telephone number for a device in an enterprise network. More particularly, the system is configured to route an incoming telephone call received from an external device, such as a mobile... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20100220851 - System and method for providing dialing access links: There is disclosed a system and method of displaying a selectable access link. In an embodiment, the method comprises: assigning a dialing short form to an entity; storing the dialing short form in persistent memory; associating one or more access links with the dialing short form; and upon receiving a... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20100220852 - Jurisdictionally optimized call routing: A device receives ordered call routing lists, receives information about a call, from an originating location, to a terminating location of a network, and determines a jurisdictional index for the call based on the originating and terminating locations and based on jurisdiction definitions of carriers associated with the network. The... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group